December 2010
“at ones feet, but here i have watched, observed, and listened argurably too much… but i have learnt so much about people and myself…”
- @therisinsun
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“Royal patronage is a useful draw for the new breed of customers from the Middle...”
– Men’s clothing: Suitably dressed | The Economist
“By the end of the 18th century London had become the centre of gentlemen’s...”
– Men’s clothing: Suitably dressed | The Economist
“It is a garment born out of revolution, warfare and pestilence. The suit still...”
– Men’s clothing: Suitably dressed | The Economist
“Consider […] the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’s idea of...”
– The Lies of Science Writing - WSJ.com
“Not only is a good picture, even a mental one, worth at least a thousand words,...”
– The Lies of Science Writing - WSJ.com
“Virgos on Twitter are excellent communicators in social media. They are...”
– Twitter Zodiac Signs | Social Media Vision
“Literary Journey Hypothesis
Travel around the world via a bookshelf. Apparatus...”
– A Literary Journey – a resolution for 2011 « Blog of Marvelous Things
“His two characters sit stranded in harbour because one of them can’t start...”
– Are Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown a match for literary fiction? | Books | The Observer
“Where were the Heats and the Closers, I wondered? The Maxims and the Cosmos?...”
– Are Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown a match for literary fiction? | Books | The Observer
“As for Salander, his putatively strong female protagonist, she is a creepy man’s...”
– The Blog That Needed Fixing, a Novel by Stieg Larsson « Lev Grossman
“Novels are praised for being a “fast read” and above all for having...”
– Why we love bad writing - Laura Miller
“Writing lab reports, giving academic presentations and conducting six-month...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“One female student spoke of being told of glowing opportunities at the outset,...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“In one study of British PhD graduates, about a third admitted that they were...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“Thirty years ago […] Wall Street firms realised that some physicists could...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“About one-third of Austria’s PhD graduates take jobs unrelated to their degrees....”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“In Canada 80% of postdocs earn $38,600 or less per year before tax—the average...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“Only a few fast-developing countries, such as Brazil and China, now seem short...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“…by 1970 America was producing just under a third of the world’s...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“In most countries a PhD is a basic requirement for a career in academia. It is...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
“…the network is not going away. We are not going to kill the...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“Less than 10 percent of large daily newspapers in America have four...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“Until quite recently, newspapers were among the most profitable local...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“The point in such cases is not that the public isn’t smart enough to figure out...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“To understand something—an essay, an argument, a proof of innocence—...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“No doubt false claims will sometimes inspire more truth. But what about when the...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“More information,” as Fung and his colleagues put it, “does not...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“In this simple insight, Brandeis described what has become a school of...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“Brandeis coined his famous phrase in 1914, in a book called Other People’s...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“How could anyone be against transparency? Its virtues and its utilities seem so...”
– Against Transparency | The New Republic
“The 365-day year or xihuitl consists of 18 months (meztli) of 20 days plus five...”
– Introduction to the Aztec Calendar
“Time is experiencing the pain of that freeing of information. Monolithic...”
– ‘Mark Zuckerberg, I’mma let you finish but Julian Assange was clearly the Person of the Year.’ | The Not-So Private Parts
“No quiero escribir este libro, pero tengo que hacerlo” , “ya he...”
– Julian Assange publicará autobiografía - El Universal - El Mundo
“Perhaps the world is simply too fast-forward now for the craft and the clutter –...”
– Analog – review | Art and design | The Observer
“Dowling plans to give his big, bulky machinery to one of the photography...”
– Analog – review | Art and design | The Observer