January 2012
“Great is baseball. The national tonic. The reviver of hope. The restorer of...”
– The Sporting News, 1931 (via @duanexharris)
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“We don’t need Proust to tell us that memories connect in unforeseen ways....”
– Remembering a Golden Age of Reading - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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“The soul learns in spirals, not direct, linear paths.”
– Sonia Choquette   (via paperlover)
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“She decided to take a closer look at her competition. Cruz was clearly prolific...”
– On Amazon, An Uneasy Mix Of Plagiarism And Erotica : NPR
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“Dennis Loy Johnson, a former academic who is the proprietor of Melville House, a...”
– The Book Beyond the Book - NYTimes.com
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Study: Class size doesn’t matter →
Suzy Khimm, washingtonpost.com Two Har­vard researchers looked at the fac­tors that actu­al­ly improve stu­dent achieve­ment and those that don’t. In a new paper for the Nation­al Bureau of Eco­nom­ic Research, Will Dob­bie and Roland Frey­er ana­lyzed 35 char­ter schools, whic… We find that traditionally collected input measures — class size, per pupil expenditure, the fraction of teachers...
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NPR: What Should Liam Neeson Punch Next? →
npr: In the upcoming Battleship, if I am understanding the premise, he’s going to fight aliens with boats.
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Bird-Watchers Revel in Unusual Spike in Snowy Owl... →
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Emanuel announces plan to reopen libraries on... →
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Berkeley protesters claim victory in library... →
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Friday Poem →
3quarksdaily.com January 20, 2012 Friday Poem Search­ing for the Dhar­ma . You’ve trav­eled up ten thou­sand steps in search of the Dhar­ma. So many long days in the archives, copy­ing, copy­ing. The grav­i­ty of the Tang and the pro­fun­di­ty of the… http://flpbd.it/Kw0p
Jan 21st
In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi... →
mcsweeneys.net Lo, in the twi­light days of the sec­ond year of the sec­ond decade of the third mil­len­ni­um did a great dark­ness descend over the wire­less inter­net con­nec­tiv­i­ty of the peo­ple of 276 Fer­n­dale Street in the North-Central lands of Iowa. … Very well done.
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NPR →
tumblr.com In 5-bil­lion yrs the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vapor­izes. Have a nice day. http://flpbd.it/k0hf
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“The internet has become so good at meeting our desires that we spend less time...”
– IN SEARCH OF SERENDIPITY - More Intelligent Life
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