January 2012
5.4 Pitchfork, 1995–present
“In the two years since I graduated from college, I’ve had a pretty good time being “broke” in New York and drinking “cheap” beer with my friends. But sometimes I remind myself that the beer I’m drinking is not actually cheap, and that furthermore I am not actually broke: if I married someone who made the same salary I make, our household income would be slightly above the national median,...
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Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
Dunbar brought tape recorders into meeting rooms and loitered in the hallway; he read grant proposals and the rough drafts of papers; he peeked at notebooks, attended lab meetings, and videotaped interview after interview. He spent four years analyzing the data.
…Dunbar came away from his in vivo studies with an unsettling insight: Science is a deeply frustrating pursuit. …“The...
“Might as Well Eat That Cookie.”
– —Oprah asked Paula Deen, the butter enthusiast who it now turns out “intentionally” hid her Type II diabetes for three years, for a six-word mini-memoir.
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“It is interesting that Tucker chose Freudian psychoanalysis, of all the...”
– Tucker Max Gives Up the Game: What Happens When a Bestselling Player Stops Playing? - Forbes
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best email subject line of the day
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switcheroo: katina & jerry
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What’s Wrong With Urban Outfitters?
“Go to Urban Outfitters’ web site right now, and it’s all bizarre cut-out dresses, $90 high-waisted rayon rompers, and genuinely confusing $150 bikinis. (Did the world really need a tie-die off-the-shoulder bikini? Really?) I am not sure that Urban Outfitters currently sells any top that would allow its owner to wear a bra. In a retail environment where consumers are still...
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Academia's Crooked Money Trail
“The troubles plaguing academic science — including fierce competition for funding, dismal career opportunities for young scientists, overdependence on soft money, excessive time spent applying for grants, and many more — do not arise, Stephan suggests, from a shortage of funds. In 2009, she notes, the United States spent nearly $55 billion on university- and medical school–based...
“Every Friday all open food containers that have not been removed from the...”
– Signs You’ll Never Read in Your Office’s Communal Kitchen | The Hairpin
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December 2011
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's...
“Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.
In the Finnish view, as Sahlberg describes...
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