Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite by David Leonhardt

Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite by David Leonhardt

"We Are Crossing the Boundary Between Knowledge and Belief" by Rolf-Dieter Heuer

"We Are Crossing the Boundary Between Knowledge and Belief" by Rolf-Dieter Heuer

What's It Worth: The Economic Value of College Majors by Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl and Michelle Melton

What's It Worth: The Economic Value of College Majors by Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl and Michelle Melton

On path to riches, no sign of fluffy majors by Peter Whoriskey

On path to riches, no sign of fluffy majors by Peter Whoriskey

In Defense of Slavery Cont. by Ta-Nehisi Coates

In Defense of Slavery Cont. by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The End of the Book? by John Steele Gordon

The End of the Book? by John Steele Gordon

Friday, May 20, 2011

Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch by Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch by Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

The ‘Point’ is Beside the Point - Does the universe have a purpose? by Michael Shermer

The ‘Point’ is Beside the Point - Does the universe have a purpose? by Michael Shermer

The Return of Virtue Ethics by Mark Vernon

The Return of Virtue Ethics by Mark Vernon

The Biggest Big Question of All by Michael Shermer

The Biggest Big Question of All by Michael Shermer

Survival of the Godliest - Does strong religious belief provide an evolutionary advantage? by Phillip Longman

Survival of the Godliest - Does strong religious belief provide an evolutionary advantage? by Phillip Longman

The Problem of "Is" and "Ought" Is science capable of providing a common morality? Philosopher Yoram Hazony answers

The Problem of "Is" and "Ought" Is science capable of providing a common morality? Philosopher Yoram Hazony answers

Inside the "Black Box" of Personhood by Rod Dreher

Inside the "Black Box" of Personhood by Rod Dreher

Explaining the Complicated Women + Math Formula by Belinda Luscombe

Explaining the Complicated Women + Math Formula by Belinda Luscombe

The Achilles' heel of biological complexity by Philip Ball

The Achilles' heel of biological complexity by Philip Ball

Hidden assumption hypes species-loss predictions by Virginia Gewin

Hidden assumption hypes species-loss predictions by Virginia Gewin

The French Disease, Part 3 by Paul A. Rahe

The French Disease, Part 3 by Paul A. Rahe

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Iceland’s Big Thaw by Jake Halpern

Iceland’s Big Thaw by Jake Halpern

Clausewitz: Master of War by Walter Russell Mead

Clausewitz: Master of War by Walter Russell Mead

Radiation in Japan from Steve Jurvetson

Radiation in Japan from Steve Jurvetson

Information is Beautiful website

Information is Beautiful website

Word Cloud: How Toy Ad Vocabulary Reinforces Gender Stereotypes from The Achilles Effect

Word Cloud: How Toy Ad Vocabulary Reinforces Gender Stereotypes from The Achilles Effect

Radiation Dosage Chart from Information is Beautiful

Radiation Dosage Chart from Information is Beautiful

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Black or White? by Daniel J. Sharfstein

Black or White? by Daniel J. Sharfstein

The End of an Idea — Why Affirmative Action Should Stop by Victor Davis Hanson

The End of an Idea — Why Affirmative Action Should Stop by Victor Davis Hanson

Commit Yourself: Self-control in the age of abundance by Daniel Akst

Commit Yourself: Self-control in the age of abundance by Daniel Akst

The Information Sage by Joshua Yaffa

The Information Sage by Joshua Yaffa

A Solitary Thinker by Mark Bauerlein

A Solitary Thinker by Mark Bauerlein

Another Revolution Betrayed by Walter Laqueur

Another Revolution Betrayed by Walter Laqueur

Sunday, May 8, 2011

From ‘End of History’ Author, a Look at the Beginning and Middle by Nicholas Wade

From ‘End of History’ Author, a Look at the Beginning and Middle by Nicholas Wade

Supremacy of a Social Network by Nicholas Wade

Supremacy of a Social Network by Nicholas Wade

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin

The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities by Isaiah Berlin

The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities by Isaiah Berlin

Design for living by Jonathan Sumption

Design for living by Jonathan Sumption

Europe Today website

Europe Today website

Presseurop website

Presseurop website

WorldCrunch website

WorldCrunch website

Is China Cooking The Books On Its Census Data? by Yi Fuxien

Is China Cooking The Books On Its Census Data? by Yi Fuxien

Spreading the News in Europe, in English by Eric Pfanner

Spreading the News in Europe, in English by Eric Pfanner

History of the United States by Henry Adams

History of the United States by Henry Adams

The Future of American History by John Higham

The Future of American History by John Higham

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissent in Lochner v. New York (1904)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissent in Lochner v. New York (1904)

Thoughts on a Surreal Depression by Victor Davis Hanson

Thoughts on a Surreal Depression by Victor Davis Hanson

How Peace Gets Made by Henrik Bering

How Peace Gets Made by Henrik Bering

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Finding on Dialects Casts New Light on the Origins of the Japanese People by Nicholas Wade

Finding on Dialects Casts New Light on the Origins of the Japanese People by Nicholas Wade

What Happened to Air France Flight 447? by Wil S. Hylton

What Happened to Air France Flight 447? by Wil S. Hylton

Galileo's explosive life and legacy by Claudio Vita-Finzi

Galileo's explosive life and legacy by Claudio Vita-Finzi

Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving by Benedict Carey

Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving by Benedict Carey

Electrifying Language by Brian Hayes

Electrifying Language by Brian Hayes

Let's face it: none of our environmental fixes break the planet-wrecking project by George Monbiot

Let's face it: none of our environmental fixes break the planet-wrecking project by George Monbiot

Top Green Admits: “We Are Lost!” by Walter Russell Mead

Top Green Admits: “We Are Lost" by Walter Russell Mead

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The History of Pretty Much Everything by Ethan Siegel

The History of Pretty Much Everything by Ethan Siegel

Understanding Popular Uses of Percentages by Peter M. Nardi

Understanding Popular Uses of Percentages by Peter M. Nardi

Uncollege website

Uncollege website

The University Has No Clothes by Daniel B. Smith

The University Has No Clothesby Daniel B. Smith

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation by Megan McArdle

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation by Megan McArdle

Ideas and Theory: The Political Difference by Stanley Fish

Ideas and Theory: The Political Difference by Stanley Fish

Dorothy and the Tree: A Lesson in Epistemology by Stanley Fish

Dorothy and the Tree: A Lesson in Epistemology by Stanley Fish

Synopsis of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn, synopsis