May 2012
1 post
April 2012
15 posts
“By participating in the election, Aung San Suu Kyi chose to play by the regime’s...”
– I also say.
Already in Myanmar’s Reformation, an Impasse - NYTimes.com
“It was with a surge of emotion, therefore, that I read newspaper reports about...”
– Sacking a Palace of Culture - NYTimes.com
“The white card is a piece of the migratory absurdities that prevent Cubans from...”
– The Dream of Leaving Cuba - NYTimes.com
“FROM the subject of halal meat to the matter of driver’s licenses, the French...”
– Voting for Yesterday in France - NYTimes.com
“Prof Lim, replying to questions post-lecture, said that he has indeed given...”
– Rationale behind Lim Chong Yah’s wage shock therapy
The Cognitive Limit of Organizations. The... →
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The Cognitive Limit of Organizations. The structure of a society is connected to its total amount of information Click image to enlarge
“The vertical axis of this slide represents the total stock of information in the world. The horizontal axis represents time. In the early days, life was simple. We did important things like make spears and arrowheads. The amount of knowledge...
“Yet philosophy differs in a fundamental way from art, literature or religion, as...”
– Philosophy Is Not a Science - NYTimes.com
March 2012
21 posts
“Our fundamental guiding principle is to use culture as a tool for education and...”
– Brazil’s Leading Arts Financing Group Shares the Wealth - NYTimes.com
“Still more astonishing was the extent to which the super rich got rich faster...”
– The Rich Get Even Richer - NYTimes.com
“Yes, that’s what I like about me, at least one of the things, that I can say, Up...”
– Character and Its Discontents - NYTimes.com
“The real love affair, then, is not with the pills but with the anxiety itself....”
– Why Xanax is the Most Popular Anti-Anxiety Drug in America — New York Magazine
“But universities have discovered that PhD students are cheap, highly motivated...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“I vividly recall when the first edition of my book When China Rules the World...”
– Why do we continue to ignore China’s rise? Arrogance | World news | The Observer
Bring Back the Rails! →
tetw:
By Tony Judt
The modern city was born of rail travel. The very possibility of placing millions of people in close proximity with one another, or else transporting them considerable distances from home to work and back, was the achievement of the railways.
Breaking Bread with a Spread →
tetw:
by Sandra Cate
In many jails and prisons, inmates devise a cuisine that supplements – or replaces – the official meals provided them. Nearly every evening in the San Francisco County jails, inmates make “spread,” the generic term for this cuisine, out of dried ramen noodles and ingredients saved from their meal trays or purchased on weekly commissary orders.
“NO ONE WOULD accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described...”
– How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic
February 2012
5 posts
“We are being asked to perpetuate a narrative of victimhood that evades the...”
– The Dilemmas of Israeli Power - NYTimes.com
“In the half-century between 1962 and the present, America has become more...”
– The Materialist Fallacy - NYTimes.com
“Humiliation is the single most underestimated force in politics. People will...”
– The Politics of Dignity - NYTimes.com
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
14 posts
“If the euro is preserved and Europe moves toward a more unified future, Mrs....”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/europe/angela-merkel-nears-a-remaking-of-euro-zone.html?hp
“Facebook still doesn’t know how to make money. That was the main...”
– Facebook’s problem: how to make money without annoying people | Business | guardian.co.uk