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December 29, 2006

100 Things We've Learned This Year

Category: Culture

The annual list from the BBC. Here's a semi-random sampling: More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon's bedroom. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to...

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Iraq and Loss Aversion

Category: Culture

It sounds as if Bush has decided to "escalate" the war in Iraq by sending a "surge" of 20,000 more troops. I'm no military expert, but this certainly seems like a terrible idea, especially considering that the previous attempts to...

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December 28, 2006

Cheap Heroin

Category: Culture

Wait, I thought the war on drugs was supposed to make heroin more expensive: Grams of highly pure Afghan heroin are now trading at $90 in LA. That's about a dime per pure milligram, compared with $2.50 a pure milligram...

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Old Professors

Category: Culture

Ever since 1994, when universities were no longer allowed to require professors to retire at a certain age, the average age of academics has been steadily rising. Here's the Boston Globe: This year, 9.2 percent of tenured professors in Harvard's...

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December 27, 2006

What is the What

Category: Culture

I've been reading Dave Eggers new book, What is the What. It's a beautifully told story of a boy's flight from Southern Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia to the slums of Atlanta. Based on a true story -...

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Exercise Your Brain

Category: Culture

The Times has a story today on the recent boom in "brain health" programs: From "brain gyms" on the Internet to "brain-healthy" foods and activities at assisted living centers, the programs are aimed at baby boomers anxious about entering their...

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December 26, 2006

Talking About Death

Category: Culture

Talking about death is hard, and many doctors aren't very good at it: Researchers who in the mid-1990s observed more than 9,000 seriously ill patients in five American teaching hospitals found substantial shortcomings in the care of the dying. More...

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Scott Adams on Free Will

Category: Culture

Here is Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) weighing in on neuroscience and free will (a topic that has been heatedly discussed on this blog recently): It seems to me that free will can be easily tested. The next time...

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December 24, 2006

The Obama Surge

Category: Culture

The latest poll from my state of New Hampshire: If the Democratic primary were held today, Obama would be in a statistical dead heat with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, according to a new Monitor poll. Last month, a Monitor...

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December 22, 2006

Santa Claus and Coca-Cola

Category: Culture

Tis the season of Santa Claus, and my neighborhood is full of these awful blow up Santa dioramas. The grinch in me hopes that some other grinch comes along with a sharp scissors and pokes a hole in all this...

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