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Salmon Felix Stirs the Pot
Image via JHM. I’ve posted on Felix before. I just love this guy. He’s provocative in the very best ways. Here, he argues, Individuals are doing it, banks are doing it — faced with the horrific news and pictures from … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, How Stuff Works, Japan, Opinion, Reuters, Salmon Felix, Snow White, The Browser
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Gore’s Presidency: A Retrospective
Let’s keep this presidential train rolling with some juicy fan fiction. Five writers for New York Magazine take turns wrapping 2-year ribbons around the maypole, imagining what it would’ve been like if Gore had won in 2000 and 2004. Two … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001, Al Gore, Canon, Fan Fiction, Glenn Beck, Historical Fiction, History, Jane Smiley, Kevin Baker, Kurt Anderson, New York Magazine, Opinion, Politics, Retcon, The Browser, Walter Kirn, White House
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Douglas Coupland’s Predictions for the Coming Decade
I read this a couple of months ago, but only now, in these early days of the new decade*, does it feel right to stamp out the ubiquitous optimism with some good doubt. Douglas Coupland, a Canadian curmudgeon, lists 45 predictions for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Culture, Curmudgeons, Douglas Coupland, Education, Food, Future, Futurism, Music, Opinion, Philosophy, Photobucket, Predictions, Scary, Singularity, Smarts, The Browser, The Globe and Mail, Thoughts, Wikipedia
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Christopher Hitchens on How to Make a Proper Cup of Tea
[image via The Thinking Blue] I envy Hitchens’ writing style. He takes confident chances with the language and they work. Now that “the holidays”—at their new-style Ramadan length, with the addition of Hanukkah plus the spur and lash of commerce—are … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Beautiful, Christopher Hitchens, Curmudgeons, Education, Food, History, How Stuff Works, John Lennon, Opinion, Paragraphs, Philosophy, Sentences, Skills, Slate, Smarts, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, Tea, The Browser, Thoughts, Words, Yoko Ono
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The Cringe at the Heart of Christmas
[image via TV by the Numbers] Giles Fraser from the Guardian blasts it. Christmas can be a bad time for those of us with an allergy to all that Jesus-is-my-friend theology. As the angels sing, the eternal mystery pulsing through … Continue reading
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Tagged Animated GIFs, Baby Jesus, Christmas, Clint Eastwood, Discourse, Education, Giles Fraser, Ideas, If We Don't Remember Me, Jesus, Music, Omnipotence, Opinion, Philosophy, Religion, Shabazz Palaces, Smarts, The Browser, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Grinch, The Guardian, Theology, Thoughts
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Bill Gate's Favorite Teacher Does It for Free
[image via azstarnet] We really shouldn’t care what Bill Gates thinks since he’s the quintessential black swan, but I wanted to catch your eye with a Sully lede. It is true though. Bill Gates sits there with his kids and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Bill Gates, Black Swan, David A. Kaplan, Education, Fortune Magazine, Future, Khan Academy, N. N. Taleb, Passion, Sal Khan, Salman Khan, Smarts, Technology, The Browser, Thoughts, Writing
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10 Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
New article out from PLoS Computational Biology targeted at interested, yet non-contributing members of the Wikipedia community. Here are ten rules to live by if you want to be taken seriously when attempting to edit a Wikipedia article: Register an … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Culture, Education, How Stuff Works, Open Source, Philosophy, PLoS, Public Library of Science, Science, Skills, Smarts, Technology, The Browser, Wikipedia, xkcd
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The Fifth Taste
Umami. Glutamate. Savoriness. Deliciousness. Tom Nealon makes the tongue-in-cheek case that umami was behind every historical upheaval. Essentially, glutamate-rich foods trick the body into thinking that it’s consuming vast amounts of protein — which is extremely pleasant, even if it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Food, HiLobrow, History, How Stuff Works, Smarts, The Browser, Tom Nealon
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How to be an Ass at Parties
Step 1.) Read Wikipedia’s List of Common Misconceptions. Some Good ones: George Washington did not have wooden teeth. According to a study of Washington’s four known dentures by a forensic anthropologist from the University of Pittsburgh (in collaboration with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Culture, Education, Funny, History, How Stuff Works, Napoleon Bonaparte, Opinion, Science, The Browser, Thoughts, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Writing
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Smart-Ass Pawn
I’m not sure what initiated this article, but for whatever reason, Lorrie Moore wrote a very welcome piece about David Simon and The Wire. Here’s a nice excerpt: The Wire, of course, is a deliberately far cry from Adam-12 and … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Blake Hicks, Culture, David Simon, Education, Lorrie Moore, MacAurthur Fellows Program, New York Review of Books, The Browser, The Wire
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