The debate is heating up on the role of CRA (and its, ahem, "neo-Marxist" supporters like ACORN) vs. Read more »
The debate is heating up on the role of CRA (and its, ahem, "neo-Marxist" supporters like ACORN) vs. Read more »
I've wondered about for a while whether the mathematical techniques for assessing risk alter the structure of risk and risk taking behavior itself, i.e, whether the measurement itself is exogenous to what is being measured. Taleb suggests that this may be the case in this wider discussion of the origins of the suprime crisis with Bloomberg.
Arjun Appadurai at The Immanent Frame: Read more »
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Edward B. Rackley
Thanks to our financial turmoil, radio talk shows can now probe deeper than the usual 'house of cards' metaphor when reporting the quakes of late capitalism to economic illiterates like me. Experts of every stripe are sharing their views on a topic long-shrouded in patriotic orthodoxy. How often in public discourse do Americans openly question the omniscience of the Invisible Hand, a modern myth of cosmologic proportions? Read more »
Human innards are noisy: thud of heart valves, hiss of lungs, swish of blood flow, gurgle of intestines; and in disease: the thud muffles into murmur, hiss becomes crackle, swish sharpens to whistle and gurgle falls silent. For about two centuries, medical practitioners have evolved an art to discern these sounds with the help of a simple gadget: stethoscope. Read more »
Congratulations also to Eeva and Marko!!! Read more »
We here at 3QD have been fans and friend Read more »
Jack Shafer in Slate: Read more »
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The Caps on Backward
Tim SeiblesIt was alread late inside me.
City air. /// City light.
Houses in a row.14-year-olds. ///Nine of us.
Boys.Eight voices changed. Already rumbling
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"...he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
–Bob Dylan, It's Alright MaWe Are the Music Makers
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A. W. E. O'Shaughnessy
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Beau: Golden Retrievals
Mark DotyFetch? Balls and sticks capture my attention
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seconds at a time. Catch? I don't think so.
Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who's—oh
joy—actually scared. Sniff the wind, then
Hart Seely in Slate:
Thursday's nationally televised debate with Democrat Joe Biden could give Palin the chance to cement her reputation as one of the country's most innovative practitioners of what she calls "verbiage."
The poems collected here were compiled verbatim from only three brief interviews. So just imagine the work Sarah Palin could produce over the next four (or eight) years.
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Somewhere Nietzsche says, "[O]nly that which has no history can be defined," meaning that the meaning of terms change over time. As we approach the election, the meaning of the word "split" seems to be undergoing a radical shift, at least in the Fox News lexicon. [H/t: Mark Blyth] Read more »
Via Andrew Gelman, Max Blumenthal on Pollster.com's interactive poll tracking tools:
A little over two years ago, we launched Pollster.com with a mission
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of providing a complete compilation of poll results, expert analysis
and graphical tools to help readers make sense of polling data. Today,
after two long years of development, our commitment to interactive
graphical tools takes a quantum leap...
From Scientific American: Read more »
Michael Walzer in Dissent: Read more »
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Lay of Rome
Thomas YbarraOh, the Roman was a rogue,
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From The Literary Review: Read more »
“Moscow waited for almost 24 hours, during which Georgian artillery and planes were sending the capital of South Ossetia to ruins. Almost 1600 people were killed in the shelling. Now it is being presented by the mainstream media exclusively as Russia's intervention and expansionist policy.” --Centre for Humanitarian Programmes, Republic of Abkhazia
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