Category: Links Dump

slacktivist: Sex & Money, part 3 “My conundrum was not unique — not to me and not to the question of usury. The same dilemma arises whenever we treat the Bible as a rulebook. That’s an approach that guarantees — that manufactures — conflicts between text and reason, text and experience, text and reality, text… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-12

Will New York Rebel Against Fracking? – Green Blog – NYTimes.com “A well blowout that shot gas and water polluted with drilling fluids as high as 75 feet into the air in Pennsylvania is a vivid reminder how a new generation of gas drilling is becoming more of a presence in the Northeast. Discussion of… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-11

Sunday Function : Built on Facts “Let’s say you want to prove that all the dominoes are going to fall. One way to do this would be to prove that the fall of one causes the fall of the next, and that the first domino falls. Those two statements combined prove that all the dominoes… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-09

IPN announces Ninth Annual Bastiat Prize Competition | International Policy Network “For the ninth year, International Policy Network (IPN) is accepting submissions for its annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The Prize is open to writers anywhere in the world whose published articles eloquently and wittily explain, promote and defend the principles and institutions of the… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-05

slacktivist: Sex & Money, part 2 “I’m being too polite here. I need to state this more vigorously because I need to put it in a way that will make my accusers fruitfully angry. So let me try this: The Bible is not a book about homosexuality and it will not allow itself to be… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-04

Precautions and Paralysis « Easily Distracted “The cautionary example that I think is most pertinent for academics is newspaper and magazine journalism. Fifteen years ago, some of the developments that have cast the future of print journalism as we have known it into doubt were already quite visible. But few people in the industry took… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-03

BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK “The Future, capital-F, be it crystalline city on the hill or radioactive post-nuclear wasteland, is gone. Ahead of us, there is merely…more stuff. Events. Some tending to the crystalline, some to the wasteland-y. Stuff: the mixed bag of the quotidian. Please don’t mistake this for one of those “after us,… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-02

OPERA Sees Tau Neutrino Appearance!! “It is official: the OPERA experiment (above, in a sketch) has found its first tau lepton in one of its bricks (a picture of a brick is shown below). What gives, I am hearing some of you ask. It means that a muon neutrino launched from the CERN laboratories in… Continue reading Links for 2010-06-01

slacktivist: Sex & Money, part 1 “For Nehemiah, charging 1 percent was shameful usury. The low-interest loans I was championing through our alternative investing still charged more than that. And the Gospels weren’t any help at all. Jesus did not merely reinforce the prohibition against usury, he reached past it — forbidding lending with the… Continue reading Links for 2010-05-31

Student Tip: Asking for a better grade : Dot Physics “If you are a student and you want a higher grade, you need to come in and show me that you understand the material at a level that was different than you showed on the exam. Most students don’t come in with this attitude.” (tags:… Continue reading Links for 2010-05-26