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Nina Katchadourian Short stories told through pictures of book spines (tags: books literature pictures art stories language) Cognitive Daily: Do TV, movie and game ratings actually do any good? A good rule of thumb is that when a paper title asks a question the answer is "no." (tags: games social-science psychology articles science society culture… Continue reading links for 2008-10-02

Dr. Rivka – How many US Supreme Court decisions can you name off the top of your head? (tags: law US politics) Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Bloat: threat or menace? A defense of long books. (tags: books writing literature SF blogs) Dynamics of Cats : why are grades confidential?… Continue reading links for 2008-10-01

A Tribute to Paul Newman | Popdose "What the world will miss most about Paul Newman isn’t his artistry as an actor and a director, both of stage and film, but it is his kindness and all-around stature as a good man." (tags: movies society culture) Study of Standardized Admissions Tests Is Big Draw at… Continue reading links for 2008-09-30

Cocktail Party Physics: prime time science Why you should stop worrying and learn to love science-themed tv shows. (tags: television science culture society) blarg? » I’m Sorry, Are You From The Past? Standards-compliant Web design, Microsoft style. (tags: computing internet stupid)

Editors for Obama : Editors for Obama Change in which we can believe. (tags: language education silly internet)

Primer: TV Detectives | The A.V. Club "A brief history of–and notable highlights from–television’s long-term love affair with procedurals, mystery stories, and the colorful characters who figure out whodunit." (tags: television review culture avclub)

Good Math, Bad Math : How Mortgages Turned into a Trillion Dollar Disaster "The question is, if mortgages are at the root of the current economic disaster, how can it possibly result in close to a trillion dollars worth of losses?" (tags: US politics humanities math diversity stupid) Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Trade… Continue reading links for 2008-09-26

Dynamics of Cats : how to buy a house A first-order approximation. (tags: economics society US politics) Good Math, Bad Math : Bad Probability and Economic Disaster; or How Ignoring Bayes Theorem Caused the Mess "One of the big questions that comes up again and again is: how did they get away with this? How… Continue reading links for 2008-09-25

Playing the odds at the LHC: the luminosity frontier « Shores of the Dirac Sea "The chances (odds) of one proton hitting another in such tight conditions… are almost as bad as having to win a lottery three times in a row." (tags: physics particles science blogs education math) The Best of YouTube – bestofyoutube.com… Continue reading links for 2008-09-24

Submission Form "Use this form to nominate a blog post for The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2008. " (tags: science blogs books) BuyMyShitPile.com: Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too? "Use the form below to submit bad assets you’d like the government to take off your hands. And remember,… Continue reading links for 2008-09-23