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Another Week Ends: Ancient Riddles, Death by Treadmill, Buzzing Be …
Click here to listen to this week’s episode of The Mockingcast, which features an interview […]
The Difference Between Christmas and Easter
A few paragraphs from James Martin’s remarkable article in this past Sunday’s Wall Street Journal, […]
Another Week Ends: Un-Free Shoppers, Artists, Procrastinators, Mid …
1. Good news for the procrastinators out there. The Wall Street Journal published “How To […]
Little Lies and Not-So-Little Lies (We Can’t Disguise)
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely hit an anthropological home run in the Wall Street Journal this […]
The Crazy-Making IPO: Facebook Madness and the Compulsive iDisorde …
Add one more to the tally, after Franzen, after Marche, after Turkle. The Wall Street […]
Another Week Ends: John Carter, Obesity FAILs, Mary Karr on Suffer …
1. “I am not Jesus, but I have the same initials.” Thus sang Jarvis Cocker […]
Another Week Ends: Inner Machiavellians, Lutheran Insults, Whisky …
1. I’ll admit it: I’ve been trying to lay off the David Brooks, at least […]
Another Week Ends: Joseph Mills, Commitment Devices, Anxiety Right …
1. One of the many things to adore about David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun […]
We (Don’t) Need To Talk About Pierre: The Benefits of French …
Judging from the amount of forwards to my inbox, Pamela Druckerman’s “Why French Parents Are […]
Another Week Ends: Immortal Smartphones, Jefferson Bethke, Adolesc …
1. In last weekend’s NY Times Magazine, Carina Chocano explained “The Dilemma of Being a […]
Unaccompanied Minors and the War Against the Goonies
A fitting follow-up to the recent post on the tragic decline of unstructured play in […]
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