Thursday, August 30, 2012

An Anatomy of Inspiration, 1942 by Maria Popova

An Anatomy of Inspiration, 1942 by Maria Popova

A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939 by Maria Popova

A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939 by Maria Popova

Graphing the history of philosophy by Simon Raper

Graphing the history of philosophy by Simon Raper

Dare to disagree… with TED from Neurobonkers

Dare to disagree… with TED from Neurobonkers

Download The Universe The Science Ebook Review website

Download The Universe The Science Ebook Review website

I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All Book review by Carl Zimmer

I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All Book review by Carl Zimmer

The Naked and the TED book reviews by Evgeny Morozov

The Naked and the TED book reviews by Evgeny Morozov























Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings by Alexis Madrigal

Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings by Alexis Madrigal

Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction by Craig M. Bennett et al

Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction by Craig M. Bennett et al

The Science of Bad Neuroscience from Neurobonkers

The Science of Bad Neuroscience from Neurobonkers

Academic Battleground ‘The Victims’ Revolution,’ by Bruce Bawer reviewed by Andrew Delbanco

Academic Battleground ‘The Victims’ Revolution,’ by Bruce Bawer reviewed by Andrew Delbanco

The Unseen Class War That Could Decide The Presidential Election by Joel Kotkin

The Unseen Class War That Could Decide The Presidential Election by Joel Kotkin

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Legal Centralization and the Birth of the Secular State by Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama

Legal Centralization and the Birth of the Secular State by Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama

Bill Dickens Responds on Poverty by Bryan Caplan

Bill Dickens Responds on Poverty by Bryan Caplan

Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence by Filipe R. Campante , et al

Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence by Filipe R. Campante , et al

Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States by Filipe R. Campante and Quoc-Anh Do

Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States by Filipe R. Campante and Quoc-Anh Do

The Impact of Charter Schools on Public and Private School Enrollments by Richard Buddin

The Impact of Charter Schools on Public and Private School Enrollments by Richard Buddin

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Red State Reads, Blue State Reads by Serena Dai

Red State Reads, Blue State Reads by Serena Dai

How We Use Pronouns Now: You, Me, and Everyone We Know by Jen Doll

How We Use Pronouns Now: You, Me, and Everyone We Know by Jen Doll

A Woman’s Place is On the Page by Tom Jacobs

A Woman’s Place is On the Page by Tom Jacobs

What if the Candidates Pandered to Economists? by N. Gregory Mankiw

What if the Candidates Pandered to Economists? by N. Gregory Mankiw

Not Leveling With Us by William Voegeli

Not Leveling With Us by William Voegeli

"Issues" or America? by Thomas Sowell

"Issues" or America? by Thomas Sowell

Monday, August 20, 2012

The Community of Reason, a self-assessment and a manifesto by Massimo Pigliucci

The Community of Reason, a self-assessment and a manifesto by Massimo Pigliucci

Working 9 to 12: ‘How Much Is Enough?’ by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky A review by Richard A. Posner

Working 9 to 12: ‘How Much Is Enough?’ by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky A review by Richard A. Posner

Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books by Jean-Baptiste Michel et al.

Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books by Jean-Baptiste Michel et al.

Culturomics: Google Tracks Culture Trends Through Books by Alexandra Silver

Culturomics: Google Tracks Culture Trends Through Books by Alexandra Silver

Too Central to Fail by Alex Tabarrok

Too Central to Fail by Alex Tabarrok

Why does the return journey feel quicker? by WIlliam Reville

Why does the return journey feel quicker? by WIlliam Reville

Racism by Political Party by Alex Tabarrok

Racism by Political Party by Alex Tabarrok

Monday, August 13, 2012

Facts and Fictions of D.C.'s Gentrification by Garance Franke-Ruta

Facts and Fictions of D.C.'s Gentrification by Garance Franke-Ruta

Class Origin and Elite Position of Men in Business Firms in Sweden, 1993–2007: The Importance of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Personality by Erik Bihagen1, Magnus Nermo1 and Charlotta Stern

Class Origin and Elite Position of Men in Business Firms in Sweden, 1993–2007: The Importance of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Personality by Erik Bihagen1, Magnus Nermo1 and Charlotta Stern

Made it! An uncanny number of psychology findings manage to scrape into statistical significance by Christian Jarrett

Made it! An uncanny number of psychology findings manage to scrape into statistical significance by Christian Jarrett

Is a taste for extreme answers distorting cross-cultural comparisons of personality? by Christian Jarrett

Is a taste for extreme answers distorting cross-cultural comparisons of personality? by Christian Jarrett

Why do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use? by e! Science News

Why do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use? by e! Science News.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Pension Prudence and the Fecundity of the Unexpected by Roger Berkowitz

Pension Prudence and the Fecundity of the Unexpected by Roger Berkowitz

Happyism: The creepy new economics of pleasure by Deirdre

Happyism: The creepy new economics of pleasure by Deirdre N. McCloskey


Bibliomania website

Bibliomania website

Illinois Loop website

Illinois Loop website

Popular Culture and the Threat to Rational Inquiry by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Popular Culture and the Threat to Rational Inquiry by Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Scream!: Does Children’s Literature Have to Be Scary? Review by Diane Ravitch

The Scream!: Does Children’s Literature Have to Be Scary? Review by Diane Ravitch

Reflections on the "Problem Novel": Do These Calamity-Filled Books Serve Up Too Much, Too Often, Too Early? by Barbara Feinberg

Reflections on the "Problem Novel": Do These Calamity-Filled Books Serve Up Too Much, Too Often, Too Early? by Barbara Feinberg

Fiction Is Subject With A History -- It Should Be Taught That Way by Flannery O'Connor

Fiction Is Subject With A History -- It Should Be Taught That Way by Flannery O'Connor

The Classics in the Slums by Jonathan Rose

The Classics in the Slums by Jonathan Rose

Great Literature Enables Students to Understand Themselves and Others by Terrence Moore

Great Literature Enables Students to Understand Themselves and Others by Terrence Moore

“Dumbing Down”: Why Children’s Books are Being Simplified And What This Means for All of Us by John E. Mitchell

“Dumbing Down”: Why Children’s Books are Being Simplified And What This Means for All of Us by John E. Mitchell

What Happened to the Great Ideas? by John Berlau

What Happened to the Great Ideas? by John Berlau

Education after the culture wars by Diane Ravitch

Education after the culture wars by Diane Ravitch

How This Guy Lied His Way Into MSNBC, ABC News, The New York Times and More by Dave Thier

How This Guy Lied His Way Into MSNBC, ABC News, The New York Times and More by Dave Thier

Brain might not stand in the way of free will by Anil Ananthaswamy

Brain might not stand in the way of free will by Anil Ananthaswamy

What Grown-Ups Can Learn From Kids' Books by Maria Konnikova

What Grown-Ups Can Learn From Kids' Books by Maria Konnikova

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Density is Not the Issue: The Urban Scaling Research by Wendell Cox

Density is Not the Issue: The Urban Scaling Research by Wendell Cox

Predictable Punditry Down Under by Tony Recsei

Predictable Punditry Down Under by Tony Recsei

America's Future Is Taking Shape In The Suburbs by Joel Kotkin

America's Future Is Taking Shape In The Suburbs by Joel Kotkin

The college-cost calamity from The Economist

The college-cost calamity from The Economist

Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement by Emily Esfahani Smith

Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement by Emily Esfahani Smith

Where Toys Come From: Selling fun to children is one of capitalism's least predictable pursuits by David Owen

Where Toys Come From: Selling fun to children is one of capitalism's least predictable pursuits by David Owen

Massachusetts Geniuses Figure Out Why There Are So Many Shark Sightings from JWF

Massachusetts Geniuses Figure Out Why There Are So Many Shark Sightings from JWF

The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy by Annalee Newitz

The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy by Annalee Newitz

Captive Minds: Conformity and Campus Intellectuals by Janice Fiamengo

Captive Minds: Conformity and Campus Intellectuals by Janice Fiamengo

The Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis

The Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis