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August 13 2010

The Claremont Institute - Vive la Différence

Fantastic review of The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike, by Peter Baldwin

"[D]espite our assumptions, despite a thousand op-eds, and a couple of centuries of squabbling and bickering, and even wars and revolutions, the statistical differences between Western Europe and America are trivial—in fact less than the differences between various European states. All that stuff about us Americans and them Europeans? Statistically speaking, them is us."

This is now on my "must read" list.

The Claremont Institute - Vive la Différence

Fantastic review of The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike, by Peter Baldwin

"[D]espite our assumptions, despite a thousand op-eds, and a couple of centuries of squabbling and bickering, and even wars and revolutions, the statistical differences between Western Europe and America are trivial—in fact less than the differences between various European states. All that stuff about us Americans and them Europeans? Statistically speaking, them is us."

This is now on my "must read" list.

February 22 2010

February 21 2010

Up, Down, Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks

An exhibition (and a book) that looks at elevators, escalators and moving sidewalks from a historical, design and cultural perspective. It sounds fascinating. I want the book.

January 11 2010

October 14 2009

October 12 2009

Football, dog fighting, and brain damage : The New Yorker

An offensive lineman can’t do his job without “using his head,” one veteran says, but neuropathologists examining the brains of ex-N.F.L. players have found trauma-related degeneration.

Against Transparency | The New Republic

How could anyone be against transparency? Its virtues and its utilities seem so crushingly obvious. But I have increasingly come to worry that there is an error at the core of this unquestioned goodness. We are not thinking critically enough about where and when transparency works, and where and when it may lead to confusion, or to worse. And I fear that the inevitable success of this movement--if pursued alone, without any sensitivity to the full complexity of the idea of perfect openness--will inspire not reform, but disgust. The "naked transparency movement," as I will call it here, is not going to inspire change. It will simply push any faith in our political system over the cliff.

September 25 2009

July 01 2009

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April 11 2009

tweenbots | kacie kinzer

A tiny robot that can only go in one direction is released in Washington Square Park. The tweenbot has a flag that describes its destination. Passers-by help the robot navigate to the Southwest corner of the park.

March 29 2009

February 27 2009

January 22 2009

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