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weekend | 6 april 2013
THE ECONOMY SHUT UP SAVERS James Suroweicki | The Financial Page | The New Yorker Scott Sumner, an economist at Bentley University who has become an influential advocate for a more expansionary Fed po… more →
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THE NEW YORKER: HOW CAFFEINE CAN CRAMP CREATIVITY
wrote 6 hours ago: Honoré de Balzac is said to have consumed the equivalent of fifty cups of coffee a day at his peak. … more →
My Misspent Youth
wrote 15 hours ago: I was never interested in being rich. I just wanted to live in a place with oak floors. And somehow … more →
NSA Surveillance: Metadata Matters
wrote 1 day ago: An example of image metadata. “When it comes to your telephone calls, no one is listening to t … more →
Forget Lobbying Congress; Now Congress Has to Lobby Fox
wrote 1 day ago: Have you had your daily “I’m living in a William Gibson novel” moment yet? Well do … more →
The One About The Deaf Lady
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wrote 1 day ago: The most amazing conversation I ever had was with a woman at a bus stop in Barcelona in October of 2 … more →
An Insanely Prescient Column on Reality TV
wrote 1 day ago: “This is an insanely prescient column about reality TV.” – Emily Nussbaum This is … more →
Time To Go Nuclear.
wrote 2 days ago: Time To Go Nuclear. ‘But life is about choices, and we need to make one. We can let our ideals … more →
Edward Snowden and the "Objectivity" Myth
wrote 2 days ago: I first became disgusted with the full gamut of American media while in Afghanistan. I read “o … more →
Let's sweep the bad weather away
wrote 2 days ago: It’s been another fun family weekend and yesterday was a blast, celebrating DH’s first F … more →
The Importance of Being...A Reader
wrote 2 days ago: Some part of us wants to be cold and calculating. This vision of ourselves is tantalizing – i … more →
A Tribute to Leigh Hyams
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wrote 3 days ago: Leigh Hyams died in March 2013, at the age of 86. During our times together, I was renewed, confront … more →
June 15th, 2013 by T
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wrote 4 days ago: 1. In Oklahoma Big Weather by Rivka Galchen (The New Yorker, June 3rd 2013) The meaning of living in … more →
June 15th, 2013 by C
wrote 4 days ago: 1. Comment: Lines In The Sand by Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker, May 27th 2013) whether President … more →
Literary roundup: The Szentkuthy renaissance and Odessan letters
wrote 4 days ago: At Hungarian Literature Online (HLO) there is a very thorough summary of the efforts by translator T … more →
Panic Attack
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wrote 4 days ago: I hope you have seen the 25 minute interview with Ed Snowden, the man who blew the whistle on the NS … more →
Kanye West's "Blood On The Leaves" is Fire!
wrote 4 days ago: I’ll keep it short and simple. Yeezus! Kanye West’s new album dropping on the 18th is go … more →
Classical music: A new chamber version of Daron Hagen's “Shining Brow,” an opera about architect Frank Lloyd Wright, gets successfully staged at -- and somewhat upstaged by -- by Wright’s masterpiece home Fallingwater.
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wrote 4 days ago: By Jacob Stockinger Today’s posting is by guest blogger Ron McCrea (below). McCrea, a longtime Madis … more →
A Review of Books About Insomnia (The New Yorker, 11 March 2013)
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wrote 5 days ago: Since it is a very long time until the next season of Game of Thrones, self has been watching Season … more →
The truth about Edward Snowden
wrote 5 days ago: First, there was Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked one of the most humiliating secre … more →
