Paleo Retiree’s Linkage- Archiculture Official Trailer on VimeoBut will this doc explain why the architecture-and-developer class is inflicting such a lot of zigzaggy and wibbly-wobbly monstrosities on us?
- [priv] Dazzling pictures of surfer sirens as they plunge beneath the crashing wavesPhoto portfolio du jour.
- Perspectives on being a fatherGenetics geek Razib reflects on being a new dad.
- iSteve: Women's basketball and The Narrative.How to make women's college basketball more popular.
- Scenes From a Nashville Convenience StoreAn evocative visit to Idiocristan.
- How Come Jeb Bush Can Talk About “Fertile” Immigrants And John Tanton Can’t?Question Du Jour.
- Global population to soar to 11 billion by 2100 as African population quadruplesPack 'em in.
- The Hashtag Is About to Roll Out to a Billion People, and This One Guy Invented ItWho invented the hashtag?
- The culture that is MexicoSteve Sailer on what it's like to drive in Mexico City.
- No Kids Policy Of A New Sushi Restaurant in Del Ray, Alexandria, Va. Seems To Be Paying Off | wusa9.comPopular new policy.
- Archiculture Official Trailer on Vimeo
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Question Lady Question
The Question Lady writes: When is it OK for somebody to use their iPhone (or any phone) when they’re out with other people?
Posted in Personal reflections
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Animal Hoarding and Disability
Paleo Retiree writes: Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working my way through an Animal Planet “animal hoarders” show on the tube. (Actually on Netflix Instant — haven’t had a cable subscription in years. Why bother with one? The … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Demographics, Personal reflections, Politics and Economics, Television
Tagged Animal Planet, Idiocracy, television
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Listing Movies: Vintage Martial Arts
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Do you like movie lists as much as I do? They seem to me to be a great way to explore movie history — perhaps even the only way. A fledgling movie buff could do a lot worse … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Chang Cheh, Chor Yuen, Hong Kong, King Hu, Kung Fu, Martial Arts, movies, Shaw Brothers, Wuxia
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Reading List on Sci-Tech and Ethics
Fenster writes: What ethical assumptions will need to be written into the programs for driverless cars, and who will make the decisions? Is it moral to print a gun? Is the return of eugenics in some form inevitable?
Posted in Philosophy and Religion, Science, Technology
Tagged 3d printing, driverless cars, ethics, eugenics, guns
10 Comments
epiminondas writes: Well, more fool you.
Linkathon
Paleo Retiree writes: Does the U.S. even have a conservative tradition? Bettina Arndt (bouncing off of Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs) takes a look at the state of today’s sexual marketplace. Should the British government be more frank about who’s sexually … Continue reading
Are Graduation Important?
Fenster writes: Two schools of thought on the current crisis in higher education. They are not mutually exclusive by any means, but there is a definite tension between the two. On the one hand, we have Bill Gates. Here is … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Technology
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“Margaret”
Fenster writes: Critics just can’t seem to get enough of re-appraising the long form Heaven’s Gate. In yesterday’s Boston Globe, Ty Burr added to the buzz with his own long form article, the chief benefit of which was that he … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
4 Comments
Ad o’ th’ Day
Fenster writes: What do you suppose honey isn’t doing? And to whom? And who is going to do it instead? And is it being done at the time the picture was taken?
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Question Lady Question
What do you think makes for a great bar?
Posted in Personal reflections
4 Comments
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