June 2012
34 posts
Going to China tomorrow.
“The main lesson I take from all this is the need to avoid easy generalizations...”
– Dani Rodrik, June 8, 2012
“In his lifelong study of folklore, the great scholar Alan Dundes frequently...”
– “Dark Material,” by Michael Rottman, The Morning News
“Keyboard player Abe Jun, one of the live musicians who has joined her for a few...”
– “I Sing The Body Electric,” by Margaret Wappler, LA Times Magazine, June 2012
“This is America,” said Ed Klim, president of the International Snowmobile...”
– “A Winter Sport is Flourishing This Summer on Minnesota Lakes,” by Joe Barrett, WSJ, June 7, 2012
Oh Sit! (previously known as "Extreme Musical... →
“I do not know much about writing rap lyrics, but I’m guessing that most rappers...”
– GZA and Neil deGrasse Tyson team up on a hip-hop record about science (via poptech)
Packing music.
“of dead statesmen and poets. Here was a new generation, shouting
the old cries,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” (via dmjudd)
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Someone outside my dorm room window is playing...
“Economics tried to model itself on Newtonian physics… But economics is a social...”
– George Soros speech at the Festival of Economics in Trentino, Italy. (via ftalphaville)
