From the monthly archives:

July 2008

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Beijing is flat and sprawling and smoggy and jammed with traffic and nearly all new, which is why an American friend who’s been working there for the last couple of years calls it “the People’s Republic of Houston.

Beijing is flat and sprawling and smoggy and jammed with traffic and nearly all new, which is why an American friend who’s been working there …

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Advice from Patton Oswalt’s commencement speech given at the high school

Advice from Patton Oswalt’s commencement speech given at the high school

Advice from Patton Oswalt’s commencement speech given at the high school he graduated from.…

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"After a million dollars, you have no privacy," says j-student

“After a million dollars, you have no privacy,” says j-student
Newsday
“Many people outside my generation see themselves as owning these people,” says journalism ethics …

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The web, after all, was designed by a chap (Tim Berners-Lee) who was motivated to do it because he had a poor memory for some things. Add powerful search engines to what he created and you effectively have a global memory-prosthesis.

The web, after all, was designed by a chap (Tim Berners-Lee) who was motivated to do it because he had a poor memory for some …

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Scientists, like journalists, are called upon to plumb the depths of the unknown and to fairly and objectively report their findings to their own professional community as well as the general public. Scientists, like the journalists of yesteryear, have specific methods for ensuring that the public trust placed in them is not abused.

Scientists, like journalists, are called upon to plumb the depths of the unknown and to fairly and objectively report their findings to their own professional …

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The trophy-art economy is a global phenomenon.

The trophy-art economy is a global phenomenon.
Postcards from Nowhere…

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The newest addition to the collection is Michael Heller’s The Gridlock Economy, which does for property rights what the Long Tail does for product marketing. The difference is that Heller, unlike most of the authors of counterintuitive books, is actually a leader in the academic field he is scrutinizing. As one of the nation’s leading property theorists, he has accomplished a feat. In an area that has generated very few nonacademic books, Heller has managed to pull off one of the most perceptive popular books on property since Das Kapital.

The newest addition to the collection is Michael Heller’s The Gridlock Economy, which does for property rights what the Long Tail does for product marketing. …

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Whistler, Twachtman, and “the Art of Painting Softly”

Whistler, Twachtman, and “the Art of Painting Softly”…

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