February 2010
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What if senators represented people by income or... →
(by Annie Lowrey, via Ezra Klein)
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The Manual Of Detection →
Recommended if you like stories of dreams and detectives. I think that you do.
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Fakebook
I’ve been enjoying Richard Terrill’s Fakebook - not a fakebook or a fake book but a memoir on small-time jazz, on playing it as a hopeful kid and returning to it as a father with a day job. Terrill is a poet and I bet he’s a good one; his phrasing is full of surprises and insights. He writes from Mankato, just down the road from my hometown, and I enjoyed the little...
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“Many friends and colleagues seem to share an awareness that real recovery for...”
– Nicholas Laughlin, in an email interview: ‘Economy of Attention’ - Inside Higher Ed
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What's really causing Himalayan glaciers to melt? →
Possibly “black carbon from cooking fires and coal-fired plants in India.” On the bright side, black carbon doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long as CO2. So if we ever get our act together, maybe the Himalayas will recover faster than Antarctica.
“It’s happening much faster than our most pessimistic projections.”
– David Barber, lead investigator of the Circumpolar Flaw Lead study, on the thinning of Arctic sea ice.
Texas is not the state I think of when somebody says “renewable energy standard”. But here it is in the Wall Street Journal: “The states that would benefit most from a renewable-energy standard are those that already impose targets on their utilities such as California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado and Florida.”
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“It takes a while, is my point, for the phrase “my, don’t you look gay in your...”
– Sady Doyle, “Some Notes on Words and Context”
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