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Highfalutin

Highfalutin

For things long, in depth, intellectual, and otherwise erudite.
Nicķ
What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com
Nicķ
The Myth of Japan’s Failure - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
The Myth of Japan’s Failure - NYTimes.com
The Myth of Japan’s Failure - NYTimes.com
"Time and again, Americans are told to look to Japan as a warning of what the country might become if the right path is not followed, although there is intense disagreement about what that path might be." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds - NYTimes.com
Nicķ
Charlie Rose: Michael Lewis - Hulu - http://www.hulu.com/watch...
Charlie Rose: Michael Lewis - Hulu
Nicķ
California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair - http://www.vanityfair.com/busines...
California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair
"The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario. After a hair-raising visit with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who explains why the Golden State has cratered, Michael Lewis goes where the buck literally stops—the local level, where the likes of San Jose mayor Chuck Reed and Vallejo fire chief Paige Meyer are trying to avert even worse catastrophes and rethink what it means to be a society." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
BBC News - A Point of View: The revolution of capitalism - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
BBC News - A Point of View: The revolution of capitalism
BBC News - A Point of View: The revolution of capitalism
"This state of perpetual unrest is the permanent revolution of capitalism and I think it's going to be with us in any future that's realistically imaginable. We're only part of the way through a financial crisis that will turn many more things upside down." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs : The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs : The New Yorker
Nicķ
SPIEGEL Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev: 'They Were Truly Idiots' - http://www.spiegel.de/interna...
SPIEGEL Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev: 'They Were Truly Idiots'
Nicķ
Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war | Books | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war | Books | The Guardian
Nicķ
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks...
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com
Nicķ
The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain | Mind & Brain | DISCOVER Magazine - http://discovermagazine.com/2011...
The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain | Mind & Brain | DISCOVER Magazine
Nicķ
Space exploration: The end of the Space Age | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/node...
Space exploration: The end of the Space Age | The Economist
Bruuuuuutal assessment.... - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Useful analysis but a flawed conclusion: interest and investment into space exploration may be in a lull, but the inevitable discovery of inhabitable worlds as well as ongoing and exponential improvements in technology will drive new efforts. We are natural explorers looking for the next frontier ... it is an unquenchable thirst. - dkb
Nicķ
The Backfire Effect « You Are Not So Smart - http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011...
The Backfire Effect « You Are Not So Smart
Nicķ
‘The Hangover’ and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
‘The Hangover’ and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy - NYTimes.com
a brilliant and lively analysis! - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D!: Movies + TV: GQ - http://www.gq.com/enterta...
Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D!: Movies + TV: GQ
Nicķ
Nicķ
The Wilson Quarterly: Rethinking the Great Recession - http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/printar...
The Wilson Quarterly: Rethinking the Great Recession
"We Americans turn every major crisis into a morality tale in which the good guys and the bad guys are identified and praised or vilified accordingly. There’s a political, journalistic, and intellectual imperative to find out who caused the crisis, who can be blamed, and who can be indicted (either in legal courts or the court of public opinion) and, if found guilty, be jailed or publicly humbled. The great economic and financial crisis that began in 2007 has been no exception." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
this is IMO high-quality fluff disguised as wool. as flavor flav would say - can't truss it! i'm all for staying positive and not playing the blame game in favor of the big picture regarding cycling social mood, manias, etc... fine. but the brief, indirect reference to Hyman Minsky's canonical 'financial instability hypothesis' was a missed opportunity to study said picture, and instead... more... - millie from Android
returning to the excerpt provided - of course we turn it into a morality tale, and must. how else will we learn as a culture? (until we forget again.) certainly not by the intellectual set pontificating on human frailty, valid as it may be. if we are to have these gigantic societies hold together we need a useful set of rules. a strong sense of ethics, collectively, regarding sharing,... more... - millie from Android
yet if the problem is intrinsic to human caprice, or systemic to our civil nature, or in some other way brought about by our basic emotional failings and/or hormonal indiscretions, then setting up a mythical moral argument for dealing with it will be unproductive. ethics are often based upon changing social moors and lopsided arguments for righteousness, which are always highly contentious. perhaps we should decouple our economic system from the vagaries of human emotion. - Nicķ
well, I would think it difficult to rationalize an argument against the passing of the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial banks from investment banks during the Great Depression because they had become financial weapons of mass destruction. ethics and pragmatism generally go hand-in-hand if the timeframe one is considering is adequately long, and this act was a great example... more... - millie from Android
howz this for a morality tale: http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2011... - millie from Android
howz this for pathological (commenting): "Once set up, the elitist psychopathic system corrodes the entire social organism, wasting its skills and power. Once a Pathocracy has been established, it follows a certain course and has certain "attractive" powers. In a Pathocracy the socioeconomic system arises from the social structure which is created by the system of political power, which... more... - millie from Android
Nicķ
The Moral Crusade Against Foodies - Magazine - The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...
The Moral Crusade Against Foodies - Magazine - The Atlantic
Taking foodies to task! Hilariously snarky article. - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
this reminds me of the common form of hipster bashing that fails to separate the pretenders (the many) from the contenders (the few). unfortunately, all the foodies here are pretenders in my book, with the possible exception of pollan. this renders the thesis misguided. its snark, as you put it, also stems from a worldview that hinges on an inaccurate, obviously cherry-picked sourcing... more... - millie from Android
can you enjoy anything anymore? - Nicķ
millie says yes, she can -and no less than ever. millie likes Quality: see robert pirsig. remember him?... I thought this was a forum; why not address what I write as opposed to readdressing your perceptions of me? - millie from Android
(if i'm hijacking just let me know. this is your place after all. no hard feelings.) - millie from Android
Nicķ
For a Little Room Behind the Shop - Ian Brunskill - The American Interest Magazine - http://www.the-american-interest.com/article...
"Can a retired 16th-century French provincial magistrate teach us how to live today? Sarah Bakewell’s engaging and idiosyncratic biography of the great essayist Michel de Montaigne suggests that the answer, in some quite subtle and interesting ways, is that he can." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
Mind vs. Machine - Magazine - The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...
Mind vs. Machine - Magazine - The Atlantic
"Each year for the past two decades, the artificial-intelligence community has convened for the field’s most anticipated and controversial event—a meeting to confer the Loebner Prize on the winner of a competition called the Turing Test. The test is named for the British mathematician Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, who in 1950 attempted to answer one of the field’s earliest questions: can machines think? That is, would it ever be possible to construct a computer so sophisticated that it could actually be said to be thinking, to be intelligent, to have a mind? And if indeed there were, someday, such a machine: how would we know?" - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
The Philosophical Novel - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
The Philosophical Novel - NYTimes.com
Nicķ
The rise and rise of the cognitive elite | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/node...
The rise and rise of the cognitive elite | The Economist
"The crash sparked a wave of public ire against financiers, and against rich people in general. It also intensified the debate about inequality, which has risen sharply in nearly all rich countries. In America, for example, in 1987 the top 1% of taxpayers received 12.3% of all pre-tax income. Twenty years later their share, at 23.5%, was nearly twice as large. The bottom half’s share fell from 15.6% to 12.2% over the same period." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
Germany's role in the world: Will Germany now take centre stage? | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/node...
Germany's role in the world: Will Germany now take centre stage? | The Economist
Germany's role in the world: Will Germany now take centre stage? | The Economist
"IN FRANCE workers angry about pension reforms have blockaded fuel refineries, causing 4,000 petrol stations to run dry. The Netherlands’ recently elected minority government depends for survival on support from a Muslim-baiting populist. Economies across Europe are struggling to cope with sluggish growth, lacerating budget cuts and the after-effects of borrowing binges. But there is an exception to the gloomy European rule." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Anthony Citrano
Anthony Citrano
Last night I dreamed aliens were projecting colorful symbol-messages onto our atmosphere like it was a giant movie screen. A major complication arose, which was that different people were seeing different things, like some kinda interstellar mass personalization. [Best delete your third-party brain-cookies!] P.S.: I remember the shapes.
Anthony Citrano
"Foucault began to spend more time in the United States, at the University at Buffalo (where he had lectured on his first ever visit to the United States in 1970) and especially at UC Berkeley. In 1975 he took LSD at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park, later calling it the best experience of his life." - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
Charlie Rose - Author Christopher Hitchens - http://www.charlierose.com/view...
Charlie Rose - Author Christopher Hitchens
quite excellent - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
Nicķ
Charlie Rose - Author Martin Amis - August 11, 2010 - http://www.charlierose.com/view...
Charlie Rose - Author Martin Amis - August 11, 2010
Anthony Citrano
Quantum Time Machine Solves Grandfather Paradox | MIT Technology Review - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
Quantum Time Machine Solves Grandfather Paradox | MIT Technology Review
“Now postselection gets even weirder thanks to some new ideas put forward by Seth Lloyd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a few buddies. They say that if you combine postselection with another strange quantum behaviour called teleportation, you can build a time machine." - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet
I think there's a reason why you never meet anyone named Alice or Bob anymore. They've all been grandfathered out. - Akiva
Nicķ
The Acceleration of Addictiveness - http://www.paulgraham.com/addicti...
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
"The world is more addictive than it was 40 years ago. And unless the forms of technological progress that produced these things are subject to different laws than technological progress in general, the world will get more addictive in the next 40 years than it did in the last 40." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
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