Taking Flight
15-Aug-08
I am in Seattle for a few days to celebrate a friend’s wedding and the birthdays of two of my sisters, and to obtain some relief from the splendid isolation of my monastic existence in San Francisco.
Interesting
Basics of paleontology- Case study in false balance in journalism
- Cure for hiccups
- Dick Cheney empathy test
- Donald Rumsfeld: poet
- Dying language and identity
- Ethics of drug development
- Exhibition as social dominance
- Experience Is the Product
- Feynman on k-12 textbook acquisition
- Inside 48-hours magazine
- James Frey: sweatshop proprietor
- Justin Long: good guy
- Nabokov: insightful lepidopterist
- The appeal of Mad Men
- The end of men
- Verifying info online
- What movie titles are most often adapted in scientific titles?
- What's happening to my body: a book for cortez wrasses
- Wonderful review of the plight of isolated South American tribes