Ugly
The great tragedy of Science;
the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Two ugly facts--
- Chief Seattle didn't write that bumper sticker.
- The hundredth monkey was nothing special
Silly
A thread on Plastic about how you'd spend your remaining time if planetary destruction was imminent. Two of the better postings--
- On the last day I'd go on a long hike into the woods, because the worst part about backpacking for me has always been that you have to carry all that gear.
- No Survivors - The Ultimate Reality Show: Watch twelve average families around the globe react to their impending doom.
sorry. morbid sense of humor.
Stunning
And a pair of stellar (as in particularly insightful and well written) weblogs--
- UC Berkeley Economics prof. Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal. Primarily from an economist's perspective, high-quality content, and he points to great stuff too.
As merchants and passers-by in Old Constantinople would hear screams and thuds from the Topkapi Palace, so we read in our media faint echoes of a struggle inside the White House over which economic policy faction will gain the ear of our underbriefed President.
Past echoes of the screams and thuds have come from International Economy, the Wall Street Journal, Robert Novak, Business Week, and others. Today's echoes come from the G-7 Group's (very valuable, although usually much less entertaining) daily email... - Swarthmore history prof. Timothy Burke's Easily Distracted. Great writing, for example
What aggravates me [about the virtual community] isn't so much the actual positions that people take, which I happen to agree with in many cases, but the fact that they come to the table with enormous inflexibility, smugness and preternatural hostility to any view that does not closely replicate their own fixed position
and
History is a good teacher, but if you just go looking for the lessons you want, I promise you that you will always find them, and learn very little in the process.
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