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By Colin Rule on December 18, 2008 at 2:03 pm
By Colin Rule on November 20, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Tamar Lewin in the NYT today: "Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation...
By Colin Rule on November 10, 2008 at 11:58 am
It seems we have a very narrow window open right now to rebuild relations between red and blue America. I was very impressed to see this post on the progressive blog Crooks and Liars:
By Colin Rule on November 5, 2008 at 11:25 am
All morning I've been receiving emails from my friends around the world congratulating me on the election of Barack Obama as the next President.
This truly is a wondrous moment in American history. To see that chart of past Presidents that Brian Williams was holding up last night, with 43 white faces, and to think the next face on that chart will be Obama's, is truly remarkable.
By Colin Rule on October 28, 2008 at 8:53 pm
David Brooks in today's NYT : "My sense is that this financial crisis is going to amount to a coming-out party for behavioral economists and others who are bringing sophisticated psychology to the realm of public policy. At least these folks have plausible explanations for why so many people could have been so gigantically wrong about the risks they were taking.
By Colin Rule on October 23, 2008 at 11:41 am
Eric Hirshberg in the Huffington Post: "There are a number of people in my life -- some family, some friends, some colleagues -- with whom I have never agreed upon anything political. Ever. These are my political opposites. My bizarre-o twins. And they have been my adversaries in countless debates; the kind nobody ever wins, but nobody ever seems to tire of, either.
By Colin Rule on October 22, 2008 at 9:37 am
Olivia Judson in the NYT: "First, according to a report published last month in the journal Science, strong political views are correlated with distinct physiological responses to startling noises and threatening images. Specifically, the study found that people who support warrantless searches, wiretapping, military spending and so on were also likely to startle at sudden noises and threatening images. Read more about Early hormone exposure and later political inclinations
By Colin Rule on October 7, 2008 at 11:26 am
David Brooks in today's NYT: "money was entrusted to a few thousand traders who sloshed it around the world in search of the highest returns...
By Colin Rule on October 6, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Jonathan Glater in the NYT Business Section this morning: "Corporate executives routinely sing the praises of arbitration clauses, the language buried in the fine print of contracts for mobile phones or credit cards, for example, that typically bars a consumer from going to court...
Read more about Companies Unlikely to Use Arbitration With Each Other
By Colin Rule on October 6, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Jacques Berlinerblau in the Washington Post's On Faith section: "Maher, a talented stand-up performer, is simply not skilled at, or comfortable with, rapidly converting ideological bile into comedy gold...
By Colin Rule on September 25, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Jonathan M. Gitlin on Ars Technica: "We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the truth is that's not always the case. Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that's actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process. Read more about Ideology > facts
By Colin Rule on September 23, 2008 at 11:43 am
There's an interesting subtext to some of the recent developments in the presidential election: the centrality of respect.
By Colin Rule on September 12, 2008 at 11:40 am
At the risk of making this blog look like merely another distribution channel for his column, David Brooks in today's NYT: "...this individualist description of human nature seems to be wrong..."
By Colin Rule on August 26, 2008 at 9:39 am
I guess the "Good Brooks" showed up to work today:
Read more about unity instead of division, looking beyond the old conflicts
By Colin Rule on July 31, 2008 at 7:11 am
Via my good friend Sanjana, some observations from Jonathan Zittrain's new book The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It): "Though these two inventions—iPhone and Apple II—were launched by the same man, the revolutions that they inaugurated are radically different. For the technology that each inaugurated is radically different. The Apple II was quintessentially generative technology. It was a platform. It invited people to tinker with it. Read more about How to stop it
