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Culture

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Culture

Essay – Our Two Cultures

[via Essay – Our Two Cultures – NYTimes.com.] Today, others believe science now addresses the human condition in ways Snow did not anticipate. For …

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Culture

‘The Geography of Buzz,’ a Study on the Urban Influence of Culture – NYTimes.com

The aim of the study, called “The Geography of Buzz,” said Elizabeth Currid, one of its authors, was “to be able to quantify and understand, …

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Essay – David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon College Address

[Via NYT.] Wallace was often accused, even by his admirers, of having a weakness for what Nabokov once referred to as “the doubtful splendors …

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Culture

Wikipedia and Cities

[Via NYTimes.com.] Wikipedia can no more be completed than can New York City, which O. Henry predicted would be “a great place if …

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Culture

WSJ Editor: ‘New Nomenclature Alone Will Not Generate News’ [Without Comment]

WSJ Editor: ‘New Nomenclature Alone Will Not Generate News’ [Without Comment]
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson urged his charges to work faster. To underline …

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Essay – Our George Steiner Problem — and Mine – NYTimes.com

Celebrated as a one-man bastion of high Western culture and admired for his moral subtlety by some, Steiner was attacked as pompous, pretentious and inaccurate

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