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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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Culture

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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Science

Edge: PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR OUR CENTURY: A Talk with AC Grayling

[via Edge: PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR OUR CENTURY: A Talk with AC Grayling.] Science is the greatest achievement of human history so far. I say …

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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

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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Linkblog

Seed Magazine tries on a little dataviz

Seed Magazine tries on a little dataviz

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