Giovanni Boccacio (1313-1375)
On the Fates of Famous Men (illustration)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Our theories always outstrip our facts. Giving facts a chance to catch-up.
Search This Blog
Magpie
Commonplace of a Magpie
In college, I used to cut out articles from newspapers and tear out the articles from magazines that I wished to keep. Later, I photocopied reports, articles, and essays. Later still, with the advent of near universally accessible computers, printers and the internet, I printed out that in which I was interested. Now I will try and just use a blog to park those dozen or so items a day that I skim, find interesting and/or aggravating, and intend to come back to later.
Posts
About Me
- Charles
- A family man, a management consultant, a book seller and an avid reader. Committed to helping children become avid readers in turn. The great chain of reading always needs renewing.
My Blogs/Sites
Interesting Facts and Opinions
- Acceleration Watch
- Aid Watch
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- American Chemical Society
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni
- American National Corpus
- American Productivity & Quality Center
- American Rhetoric
- American Scientist
- Anecdotage
- Aphorisms Galore!
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Asia Society
- Ask Meta Filter
- Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Axess
- Babel Fish
- Ballotpedia
- BBC
- Ben Muse
- Best Evidence Encyclopedia
- Beyond the First World
- BibliOdyssey
- Big Questions Online
- Big Think
- Bitpipe
- Brainy Quote
- British Library Magnificent Maps
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Business Insider
- C.S. Lewis Society of California
- Carpe Diem
- Center for International Comparisons
- Centre for Policy Studies (UK)
- CEO Express
- Changing Minds
- Charlie's Diary
- Chicago Boyz
- Children of the Code
- CIA World Factbook
- City Journal
- Clay Shirky's Writing About the Internet
- Cool Tools
- CopperWiki
- Core Knowledge Foundation
- Coyote Blog
- Darwinian Conservativism
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- DMOZ Open Directory Project
- E-Commerce Times
- Earth Observatory
- EconLog
- Economic Mobility Project
- Economist Intelligence Unit
- Edge
- Edutopia
- Encyclopedia.com
- EurekAlert
- Fabius Maximus
- FactCheck.org
- Faculty of Classics
- Fathom
- Federal Election Commission
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- First Amendment Center
- First Things
- Five Books
- Forbidden Planet
- Freakonomics
- Frink Server Pages
- Future of Children
- Gapminder
- Giga Quotes
- Global Language Monitor
- Google Earth
- Google Trends
- Greg Mankiw's Blog
- Groningen Growth and Development Center
- Harvard Business Review
- Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
- High Beam
- History News Network
- Hudson Institute
- Human Security Report Project
- Humanities Resource Center Online
- Ideas
- Index Mundi
- Index of Economic Freedom
- Infoplease
- Information on Self-Efficacy
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- International Culture and Cognition Institute
- Internet Archive Texts
- Internet Public Library
- Iowahawk
- James Lileks
- Joel Kotkin
- Josephson Institute
- Julian Baggini
- Khan Academy
- Language Log
- Lapham's Quarterly
- Leader to Leader Institute
- Lessons Learned
- Library of 19th Century Science
- Library of Economics and Liberty
- Listverse
- Ludwig von Mises Institute
- Many Eyes
- MapLight
- Media Myth Alert
- Megan McArdle
- Melvin Konner
- Metafilter
- Minding the Campus
- Minerva Classics
- Moody's Ecoonomy.com
- Moving Guides
- Mr. Bauld's English
- Nation Master
- National Association of Scholars
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Center for Policy Analysis
- National Institute for Literacy
- National Literacy Trust (UK)
- National Science Foundation
- Neglected Books
- Neil Postman Online
- New America Foundation
- New English Review
- New Geography
- Newstran
- Next Big Future
- Niall Ferguson
- OECD
- OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
- Omniglot
- Oneworld
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Open Education
- Open Secrets
- OpenMarket.org
- Paleo-Future
- Patheos
- Paul Graham
- PDMA
- Pileus
- Poets.org
- Professor Bainbridge
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Syndicate A World of Ideas
- Quadrant
- Quick MBA
- Quotidiana
- Read Book Online
- Reason
- Research Digest Blog
- SAST Wingees
- Science
- Science Blogging
- Science Blogs
- Search Institute
- Serendip
- Seth Godin
- Siris
- Skeptic
- Skeptoid
- Slate
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Stats
- SteynOnline
- Super-Economy
- TED Ideas Worth Spreading
- Text Patterns
- The American Chemical Society
- The American Society for Training & Development
- The Antifederalist Papers
- The Big Read
- The Booklist Center
- The British Library
- The Daily Galaxy
- The Daily Reckoning
- The Federalist Papers
- The Foresight Institute
- The Futurist
- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- The Internet Sacred Text Archive
- The Legatum Institute
- The Library of Congress
- The Library of Rhetoric
- The Literature Network
- The Locke Institute
- The Long Now Foundation
- The Neglected Books Page
- The New Atlantis
- The Online Medieval & Classical Library
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- The Philosophy Pages
- The Proceedings of the Friesian School
- The Psy-Fi Blog
- The Rand Organization
- The Reader's Advisor Online
- The Science of Willpower
- The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- The Social Affairs Unit
- The Speculist
- The Straight Dope
- The Talent Code
- The Technium
- The Winston Churchill Centre and Museum
- Thomas Sowell
- Timbro
- UN Human Development Reports
- US Census Bureau
- Value Based Management
- Visual Economics
- Visualizing Economics
- Walter Russell Mead
- Watts Up With That?
- Wayback Machine
- Will at Work Learning
- World Economic Forum
- World Mapper
- World Values Survey
Blog Archive
-
▼
2010
(1903)
-
▼
September
(251)
- The Claim: Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold ...
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Electric Car Industry...
- Education Pays from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Graduation by the Numbers from Education Week
- Unbearable Burden? Living and Paying Student Loans...
- Teachers’ work patterns: when, where,and how much ...
- Educating School Teachers by Arthur Levine
- Why Not Try a Scientific Approach to Science Educa...
- David Hull’s philosophy by John Wilkins
- The Evolution of a Proof by P.B. Medawar
- In Defense of Prejudice: Why Incendiary Speech Mus...
- Short Guys Finish Last by Jonathan Rauch
- The Hope Scale: A Measurement of Willpower and Way...
- How to Boost Your Willpower by Tara Parker-Pope
- Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan by ...
- Measuring Self Control Problems by John Ameriks, A...
- Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity ...
- Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals...
- Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic ...
- Obesity More Expensive for Women by Tara Parker-Pope
- Were Some Ancestral Puebloan People the Victims of...
- How to ask awkward questions and annoy people by A...
- Testing the Claims of Mesmerism The First Scientif...
- Rates of Return from Social Security from the Fede...
- "How High Schools Become Exemplary: Ways That Lead...
- 4,100 Massachusetts Students Prove ‘Small Is Bette...
- State-Specific Trends in Fruit and Vegetable Consu...
- Thoughts From a Country Mouse by Walter Russell Mead
- In the Footsteps of the Kaiser: China Boosts US Po...
- Current decisions shape your future preferences fr...
- Research shows child rearing practices of distant ...
- Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries by...
- Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Vote...
- Revealed: The maps that show the racial breakdown ...
- Living Outside History by Noel Polk
- The High Cost of College by Megan McArdle
- Activist Fiscal Policy by Alan J. Auerbach, Willia...
- Why Corvettes Cost Less Than College by Froma Harrop
- Zeros to heroes: Ulcer truth was hard to stomach b...
- Douglas N. Walton (Logic) website
- The Facts About Blankets with Smallpox by Robert S...
- Testing, the Chinese Way by Elisabeth Rosenthal
- Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind? by J...
- The Pen That Never Forgets by Clive Thompson
- Rescuing Climate Science From Agenda-Driven Politi...
- Japanese Playing a New Video Game: Catch-Up by Hir...
- Keeping Kids Safe From the Wrong Dangers by Lisa B...
- Lost libraries: The strange afterlife of authors’ ...
- Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner
- The Secret Lives of Big Pharma's 'Thought Leaders'...
- Morals & the servile mind by Kenneth Minogue
- Fibbing With Numbers by Steven Strogatz
- Is it time to bring back 'old age' as a cause of d...
- Life in the Cambrian by Z. Burian
- Welcome to the World of Charles R. Knight website
- The Art Department website by Irene Gallo
- Ideal Scene of the Lias Period with Ichthyosaurus ...
- The World Before the Deluge by Louis Figuier
- America’s One-Child Policy by Jonathan V. Last
- China -- economic juggernaut, running scared by Do...
- State Migration Trends, 1993-2008 from The Tax Fou...
- Literary Saturday: Science Fiction is a Genre That...
- Some Skepticism by Robert Hanson
- Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scen...
- Brief History of Intellectual Discussion of Accele...
- A Rule of Phase Applied to History by Henry Adams ...
- Law of Accelerating Returns by Ray Kurzweil
- What is Singularity? from the Singularity Institute
- The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survi...
- Essays on a Liberal Education by F.W. Farrar (1867)
- Philosophy of Liberal Education compiled by Andrew...
- The Aim of Liberal Education by Andrew Chrucky
- The Huxley File created by Charles Blinderman
- A Liberal Education and Where to Find It by Thomas...
- A Multiplicity of Intelligences by Howard Gardner
- Project Zero website from Harvard Uiversity
- Visible Thinking website from Harvard University
- The GoodWork Project website
- The GoodWork Project®: An Overview from the GoodWo...
- Plato's stave: academic cracks philosopher's music...
- Tug of War Pits Genes of Parents in the Fetus by N...
- Cardiovascular fitness is associated with cognitio...
- Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? by Gretch...
- Getting Back to the Phantom Skill b y James McMullan
- In Mezuzas, a Custom Inherited by Gentiles by Ann ...
- Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great by R...
- US Productivity Growth, 1995 - 2000 from McKinsey ...
- US Productivity Growth 1995-2000: Retail from McKi...
- When your competitor delivers more for less by Rob...
- Retail: The Wal-Mart effect by Bradford C. Johnson
- Precursor to H.I.V. Was in Monkeys for Millennia b...
- Agency Failure, Legal Liability and Jurisdiction, ...
- City of Airheads: Villaraigosa Dismantles L.A.'s V...
- Now, for Tonight's Assignment by Jonathan Rauch
- What Does the Constitution Mean? by Supreme Court ...
- The Bias of Language, The Bias of Pictures by Postman
- In Defense of Prejudice: Why Incendiary Speech Mus...
- The Bright Side by Megan McArdle
- Video Games Improve Fast Decision Making? from Fut...
- Save the Planet: Shop Walmart by Walter Russell Mead
-
▼
September
(251)
Total Pageviews
Powered by Blogger.
No comments:
Post a Comment