July 2012
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Watchsharpless:
This is, quite possibly, my favorite sequence in cinematic history.
I’d like it if you watched it. Thank you.
Wet Hot American Summer is the best.
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What I've been hearing
I have fallen in love with several podcasts, and I thought I would share what I have been listening to over the last few months. I don’t really listen to anything too obscure, but if you have any recommendations I’m interested in hearing them.
Radiolab - This is one I assume most know or have heard about. Stories about science based on themes which happen to be highly entertaining. ...
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Air conditioning is my co-pilot
I thought about going out tonight, but ended up taking a nap right next to the air conditioner instead. I regret nothing.
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...”
– Carl Sagan (via olanthanide)
A positive and memorable work moment
Being in a room full of doctors, nurses, and research staff cheering upon the announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. Only a couple of people seemed displeased, haha.
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“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via sunrec)
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Food trucks forever
I am enjoying some insanely tasty lobster bisque for lunch today, and that is only possible because of the recent proliferation of food trucks into Hyde Park. I really hope the city council does the right thing and allows more food trucks with greater prep capabilities so that I can continue to enjoy surprisingly delicious and somewhat random culinary experiences within walking distance of my...
The Bomb Was the Easy Case →
Science is known to be fatal; it kills people — this is all but a cliché. World War I was the chemists’ war: chemists developed chlorine as a bleach and a disinfectant, then turned it into chlorine gas, which flooded (along with other gases) into enemy trenches. World War II was the physicists’ war: physicists studied atomic fission to understand the constituents of matter, then turned it into...
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Stiglitz: The inequality crisis →
LP: There’s a persistent myth that America is still the “land of opportunity.” Why is that myth so prevalent, even in the face of so much evidence to the contrary?
JS: Well, there are two reasons for this. One of them is that the myth is so much part of our sense of identity as Americans that it is devastating for us to give it up — for us to say we are less of a land of opportunity than old...
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German court declares circumcisions a crime →
A German court has ruled that parents can’t have their sons circumcised on religious grounds in a move which has angered Muslim and Jewish groups in the country. The court in Cologne decided that a legal guardian’s authority over a child does not allow them to subject them to the procedure, which the court called minor bodily harm, reports The Financial Times Deutschland. Neither does religious...
“As college tuition has consistently outpaced the ability of people to pay out of...”
– What’s Driving College Costs Higher? (via nprfreshair)
“The real intelligence of cities lies is in the almost miraculous, unstable,...”
– The intelligence of a city is on the streets
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