February 2012
11 posts
“The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that when we take a...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
“It’s simple. If guitar music had a future, it would offer one. Discounting...”
– The Quietus | Reviews | Rough Trade
“I hear that you are unenthusiastic about the prospect of the Olympics this...”
– Will Self Interview: ‘The Olympics Suck’ | Epigram - Bristol University’s Independent Student Newspaper
January 2012
21 posts
“Gold loves bad news. When the economy slumps, lots of people suddenly wake up to...”
– Changing to the Gold Standard and the Gold Rush in Klondike: Big Issues: GQ
“There is not a single new manned combat aircraft under research and development...”
– The Future of War (From Jan., 1993 to the Present) | John Battelle’s Search Blog
“And coming up just behind them are those who, presented with a hamburger, reach...”
– Noisy eaters are my idea of hell | Life and style | The Observer
“We read books of narrative history and biography and get the impression that...”
– “Apocalypse Soon” by Daniel Baird | The Walrus | January 2012
“Today one often hears that politics is a dirty business, incompatible with...”
– Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? | The Nation
“In The Night Garden – beautiful and subversive. I get a great sense of...”
– Menk, by John Doran - No Way to Control It, It’s Totally Automatic | VICE
“There is a hole in my heart dug deep by advertising and envy and a desire to see...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
“A few months later, I read an interview with the perennially cutting-edge...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
“Since 9/11, Islamic terrorists have killed just 17 people on American soil, all...”
– Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
December 2011
14 posts
WatchGreat 30 seconds from one of the few media thinkers I have any time for…
“The restaurant was once a place for men, a place where men ate, held court,...”
– The Best Food Books of 2011 | Brain Pickings
“The Internet is dispatching everything in our globalised mega-city. People are...”
– The Quietus | Features | Escape Velocity | Adventures On The Far Side: An Interview With James Ferraro
“The odd thing is that all this techno-utopianism came from men who would...”
– Why doesn’t Britain make things any more? | Business | The Guardian
“Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to...”
– Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
“Information analysts IDC claim that the internet doubles in size every eighteen...”
– Warren Ellis » GUEST INFORMANT: Jim Rossignol
“self-knowledge is surprisingly useless. Teaching people about the hazards of...”
– The Book Bench: Is Self-Knowledge Overrated? : The New Yorker
November 2011
14 posts
“In rural China I asked this guy whether he had heard of McDonald’s and Kentucky...”
– From ‘Made in China’ to ‘Bought in China’ - Ideas - The Boston Globe
