April 2012
The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com →
If you haven’t already read this, do so now. Its implications will transform us and thereby our culture potentially more than anything. Ever.
“Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work...”
– Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept. - The Washington Post (via jeffmiller)
FEEDBACK BLOG: safe for the whole family: the... →
derekwebb:
we live in a world of categories. it’s a symptom of the nearly unlimited choices which bombard us online and offline every day. things must be organized, sorted, and categorized to be manageable. while this can sometimes be incredibly helpful, in other cases it can be dangerously deceptive. an…
Read this.
“Look, I don’t think Google’s making us stupid. I don’t think Twitter’s the...”
– Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works (via chuckolsen)
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(via wreckandsalvage)
“In a nationwide survey conducted in 2001 by the National Marriage Project, then...”
– The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage - NYTimes.com
“It was only later that I realized the value of being bored was actually pretty...”
– : How We Will Read: Clay Shirky
Anthony Bourdain: BBQ APOCALYPSE →
For my non-Kansas City followers, this is what we do here.
anthonybourdain:
I’ve referred only half jokingly over the years to the early days of my television career when, after two seasons of making shows around the world for A COOK’S TOUR, I was advised that audiences just didn’t respond to all those foreign locations where people talked funny and sometimes (horror of…
33 Animals Who Are Extremely Disappointed In You →
