Simple or Impossible
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 19 hours ago
Writing a song is a little like trying to hit a bottle cap with a wire coat hanger.
The Hidden History of the Pot Lobby
reason.com 3 hours ago
An early activist for marijuana legalization writes a compelling memoir.
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Gesture Writing
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 3 hours ago
How standing naked in front of other artists changed me as a writer.
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A borderline definite marginally mild notably numerically increasing suggestively verging on...
bigthink.com 5 hours ago
Matthew Hankins over at Psychologically Flawed has harvested an amusing list of quotes from studies that failed to find a significant result: a borderline significant trend (p=0.09)...
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Showdown at the Airport Body Scanner
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 3 hours ago
As long as there’s the slightest chance of getting cancer from airport body scanners, I’m not walking through them.
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Misplaced Honor
nytimes.com 5 hours ago
The United States Army has bases named after generals who killed United States Army soldiers.
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Overweight People Live Longer: Making Sense of a Health Paradox | IdeaFeed | Big Think
bigthink.com 4 hours ago
If you are young and healthy, then obesity, which causes problems in 15 or 20 years, is relevant. With age, though, the balance may tip in favor of extra weight to fight ill health.
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Portuguese for the perplexed
economist.com 24 May
Inspired by a popular guide to Understanding the British, I've put together a few entries in a Foreigners' Guide to Understanding Brazilians. Portuguese...
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California’s Unconstitutional Foie Gras Crackdown
reason.com 8 hours ago
In addition to its constitutional flaws, California’s foie gras ban is unenforceable. A flurry of lawsuits by animal rights groups is making this fact
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Why Do I Teach?
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 23 May
We should judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates.
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Why Race Isn't Biological | IdeaFeed | Big Think
bigthink.com 3 hours ago
While medical literature commonly identifies race as an independent risk factor for certain diseases, such an emphasis may obfuscate the search for more significant causes of illness.
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Simone Weil by Susan Sontag | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 24 May
Susan Sontag The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilization are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and...
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Social Mobility is More Important Than Equality | In Their Own Words | Big Think
bigthink.com 4 hours ago
When you have a very rigid society without social mobility the underachieving kids of overachieving parents get a privileged run and get helped into colleges they shouldn’t really be getting into.
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Shikha Dalmia in The Wall Street Journal On Why India Needs To Jettison Its Prudery
reason.com 4 hours ago
Twice a year, in spring and fall, India's Hindus celebrate Navrati, a nine-day festival during which they pray each day to a different female deity. Navrati
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ACLU Calls Bullshit on Obama's Drone 'Due Process' Promises
reason.com 24 May
As Ed Krayewski noted yesterday, not everybody was impressed by President Obama's national security speech, in which he vowed to make himself be extra
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Europe’s Lost Keynesians by Kenneth Rogoff
project-syndicate.org 23 May
There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone’s woes, despite what many commentators and much of the public seem to believe...
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Explainer: What Is Islamic Banking?
rferl.org 7 hours ago
When Islamic banking was first developed in the 1970s in the Persian Gulf states, its customers were almost exclusively observant Muslims who wanted a banking system that complied with their...
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Variety: Split Decisions
wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com 4 hours ago
Fred Piscop presents his Split Decisions.
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The Corporate Tax Dodge
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 24 May
When companies shelter their profits overseas, everyone else loses.
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Rand Paul's Hipster Outreach Mofo Party Plan
reason.com 24 May
Via Dan Foster of NRO and James Poulos of Forbes comes word of Sen. Rand Paul's recent trip to New Hampshire to spread a much-needed message of inclusion
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Gay Rights and Gun Rights Linked in Seattle Posters, Causing Control Freaks' Heads To Explode
reason.com 22 May
Across Seattle, reports alt-weekly The Stranger, posters are appearing linking gay rights and gun rights in ways that are just freaking out the usual
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Stay Out of Syria! by David Bromwich | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 24 May
David Bromwich After the troubling revelations of the May 8 Senate hearing on Benghazi, much remains unclear about the attack that killed four Americans last...
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Raiding the Keokuk
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 19 hours ago
Why did Confederates spend weeks salvaging a sunken Union ironclad in Charleston harbor?
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Time Regained! by James Gleick | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 22 May
James Gleick Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin We say that time passes , time ...
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Kill Bill
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 23 May
Political techniques may have changed, but lobbyists still deliver a terrific return on investment.
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Obama’s Long Road to Peace by David Cole | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 24 May
David Cole President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday at the National Defense University (NDU) may turn out to be the most significant of his tenure...
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Daily Show Talks with Wayne Allyn Root re: IRS, Racial Profiling. Hilarity Ensues.
reason.com 24 May
Former Libertarian Party stalwart Wayne Allyn Root was recently on The Daily Show discussing the IRS scandal and other forms of profiling. Hilarity ensues.
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The Interpretation of Early Childhood Dreams | 60 Second Reads | Big Think
bigthink.com 11 hours ago
Children’s dreams are a really interesting window into their developing minds.
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The Unanswerable Question by Alberto Manguel | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 23 May
Alberto Manguel One day in 1842, the thirty-eight-year old Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his notebook: “To write a dream, which shall resemble the real course of...
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Balearic beat
irishtimes.com 20 hours ago
Ibiza is an island where hippie chic is more than a look – it is a way of life, says Alanna Gallagher
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Cat Fight! Kadyrov Takes On Moscow Socialite In Feline Beauty Contest
rferl.org 24 May
Chechnya’s leader has not been shy about using Instagram to exhibit his strongman bonafides. Ramzan Kadyrov has bedded with tigers, straddled wolves and sparred, quite literally, wit...
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Is The Great Gatsby the Most Overrated Literary Novel of All Time? | Think Tank | Big Think
bigthink.com 24 May
In the spirit of maintaining an open mind, and in an attempt to purge myself of past prejudices, I will be re-reading The Great Gatsby this weekend.
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Obama’s 'Anguish' Makes His Bush-Like Warmaking So Much More Palatable!
reason.com 24 May
As I said yesterday, President Barack Obama's big War on Terror speech will be praised by those "who like words." Sure enough here comes The New Yorker's
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FDA Targets Its First Medical App
reason.com 24 May
In 2011, the Food and Drug Agency released proposed guidelines for the regulation of mobile medical apps—health programs for devices like the iPad and
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