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My thought exactly
Open Culture has a fascinating new post introducing a writer I’d never heard of, Walter Benjamin’s 13 Oracular Writing Tips. Buried in tip #6 is a thought for the ages Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it. Now I just need to get my students to believe this. Read more
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Guilty as Charged
Yes, your Honor. I distinctly recall watching several episodes of Father Knows Best when I was a lad. Tip from Happy Acres, who never disappoints. Read more
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Let’s Get Tidy!
So it turns out that being a neatnik is sound economic behavior, at least according to Marie Kondo. So I guess my wife should be some kind of gazillionarie by now. Tip from the Shirk Report. Why didn’t anybody tell me about this guy sooner? Read more
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Feynman on Science Education
After reading this, I think I have a lot of work to do revising my lessons. Tip from Desiderius commenting at The Unz Review. Read more
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Top College Majors for Jobs
Lots of handwringing discussion at the source, mostly not worth reading. Read more
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Get hip to the Fourier Transform
Love this great one-liner describing the ridiculously useful Fourier Transform Unfortunately, the blog post where it originally appeared has vanished from the Web. However, my search revealed this great tutorial by Zonst. Tip from the R guys at Revolutions. Read more
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National Debt for Dummies
This graph needs to become the National Elephant in the Room: Instead, we get fed a constant stream of circumlocutions and wonk porn like this: Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Academic Publishers Give Science the Business
Here’s a great overview of the business of publishing academic journals. What a racket! Update (3 Sep 2013): The Brazilians have hacked the system. Let the academic infowars begin! Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Coming Back from the Dead
It may be in our immediate future, according to Dr Sam Parnia: There are numerous studies that show that if you implement all the various resuscitation steps together you not only get a doubling of your survival rates but the people who come back are not brain damaged. Bring in on. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Upscaling the Urban Chicken Movement
High-dollar hipsters crack me up. Check out the $1300 chicken coop, along with authentic “found object” accessories. All available at Williams-Sonoma (of course), who saw these all-day suckers coming a mile away. Read more
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