The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long by Maria Popova
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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.
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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.
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- Acceleration Watch
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- American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- American Chemical Society
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni
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- Future of Children
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- Ideas
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- Thomas Sowell
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- The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov
- Tweeting From Left to Right: Is Online Political C...
- Not all Chinese ngdp is created equal by Tyler Cowen
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- The Most Liberal (Entertainment, Civil Rights, Per...
- Papers with shorter titles get more citations by B...
- Obama's Stonewall Tactics: A Case Study by John Hi...
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- Challenging Comfortable Fictions, Part II: The Que...
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- A Case Study In Climate Delusion by Steve Goddard
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- Hegel on Knowledge, Impatience, the Peril of Fixed...
- The Other France: Are the suburbs of Paris incubat...
- China: The new Spanish Empire? by Jacob Soll
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- The long, slow death of the rule of law in America...
- The Terrible Teens by Elizabeth Kolbert
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- The Head Start CARES Demonstration: Another Failed...
- What the Black Lives Matter campaign gets wrong fr...
- Brian Eno’s Reading List of Twenty Books Essential...
- The Tragic and Complete Collapse of Racial Relatio...
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- U.S. Foreign Policy Is Overdue For Some Realism by...
- How Wall Street’s Bankers Stayed Out of Jail by W...
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- The Logic of Effective Altruism by Angus Deaton
- In the Wake of Proposition 47, California Sees a C...
- CONTRARIANS, CRACKPOTS, AND CONSENSUS by Scott Ale...
- The Crackpot Index by John Baez
- A Poverty-Buster That's No Liberal Fantasy by Cass...
- Big Bird and Your Budding Bigot by Tom Jacobs
- Registered clinical trials make positive findings ...
- A Scientific Look at Bad Science by Bourree Lam
- How to Cut the Prison Population (See for Yourself...
- The Hidden Bias of Cameras by Adam Benforado
- What Will Become of America’s Slums? by Alan Semuels
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- Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family? N...
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- 10 Things ‘The New Yorker’ Gets Wrong About Free S...
- The Problem of Accuracy of Economic Data by Philip...
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- A Thoughtless Age by David P. Goldman
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- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianof...
- Are teens having second thoughts about oversharing...
- The development of human female competition: allie...
- Online Harassment in Context: Trends From Three Yo...
- The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found? by The...
- The Politics of a Panic by Jason Willick
- For sale in Spanish 'paradise': entire villages. C...
- Inequality and the Veil of Ignorance by Courtney Such
- The mistake we all make... and the simple experime...
- The Sexual Revolution’s Unlikely Winners from The ...
- How to write a bullshit article about women’s lang...
- The Flawed ‘Missing Men’ Theory by Kay Hymowitz
- Drucker: The Effective Decision from Genesis Manag...
- 20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right ...
- Dan Quayle Was Right by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
- At Sea With Joseph Conrad by Maya Jasanoff
- The IQ Gap Is No Longer a Black and White Issue by...
- In the Eye of the Ancient Beholder by Peter Frost
- Do Colored People Exist if There Are No White Peop...
- To keep and bear arms from The Economist
- The Great Divide by William Dalrymple
- ‘Meanwhile There Are Letters’ review: The rich fri...
- Ten Neglected Classics from American Scholar
- Homelessness is a gendered issue, and it mostly im...
- Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of...
- The Verdict on Charter Schools? by Bruce Fuller
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