June 2011
Pauline Kenny was roaming through a roomful of Rubens paintings at...
– A Restless Seattleite: “Slow Down - We’re Moving Too Fast”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-26) →
A-Plus (8)
spaceheater (6)
Thievery Corporation (6)
Daddy Yankee (4)
Slaughterhouse (4)
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In fact, Americans who had not lived abroad considered the English-accented...
– Who is impressed by a British accent? — Marginal Revolution
TIS - J’ai besoin - Kronos remix (by Gustav Photography)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
BeardyMan (7)
Zuco 103 (5)
Candela All-Stars (3)
Young Marble Giants (2)
Yusef Lateef (2)
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It wasn’t always like this. In the 1980s, Robin Baker from the University of...
– Humans have a magnetic sensor in our eyes, but can we detect magnetic fields? | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
The first step to confronting advertising is to stop seeing it as a form of...
– Toxic Culture | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
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Dela (23)
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The Rapture (7)
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[Chorus: A Plus]
Never let nobody tell you that you can’t dream...
– ♪ A Plus f/ Casual - A Beautiful Thing Lyrics
Many people include some dose of caffeine in their morning routine, relying on...
– Coffee Doesn’t Help You Wake Up | World of Psychology
In high-rent urban neighborhoods and the prosperous suburbs of the nation’s...
– When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America | The Heritage Foundation
America is getting older. Those over the age of 65, which currently account for...
– Hey, Dad: Family Still Matters! | Newgeography.com
Along with several other researchers, he has pioneered the science of...
– Can This Man Predict Whether Your Child Will Become a Criminal? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
It is not the way the scribes of yore would have done it but Iceland is tearing...
– m.guardian.co.uk
I use a new data set of Korean-American adoptees who, as infants, were randomly...
– http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/sempapers/Sacerdote.pdf
The Korean War orphans were adopted in the ‘50s and ‘60s at a time when it was...
– Freakonomics Radio, Hour-long Episode 2: “The Economist’s Guide to Parenting” « Freakonomics
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been...
– Burning Question: Why Do We Still Have Region Codes for DVDs? | Magazine
One of the great dangers of the Internet is its much-discussed “echo chamber”...
– Clive Thompson on High-Bandwidth Buddies | Magazine