February 2012
“We are so test-obsessed that schools are being closed based on test scores, even...”
– Standardized Testing: The Monster That Ate American Education | Think Tank | Big Think (via infoneer-pulse)
“I want to know how a hundred years ago Louis Armstrong was able to get an...”
– Wynton Marsalis (via thgts)
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“I sell something for money.”
– Marco Arment, explaining his business model for Instapaper (via austinkleon)
Jonathan Haidt Decodes the Tribal Psychology of... →
In March, Haidt will publish The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon). By laying out the science of morality—how it binds people into “groupish righteousness” and blinds them to their own biases—he hopes to drain some vitriol from public debate and enable conversations across ideological divides.
Practically speaking, that often means needling liberals...
January 2012
“Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through...”
– Provocative read on why history needs software piracy. Reminiscent of the story of how the widely pirated first edition of Arabian Nights made it one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in history. (via austinkleon)
“Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science...”
– Richard Feynman
‘What Do You Care What Other People Think?’ Further Adventures of a Curious Character (1988), 244.
