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Wednesday, Nov 12, 2003
binded me with science
"The first issue of Science Times appeared 25 years ago, on Nov. 14, 1978. Its guiding principle ever since has been that science is not a collection of answers, but a way of asking questions, an enterprise driven by curiosity. To celebrate the anniversary, we pose 25 of the most provocative questions facing science. As always, answers are provisional."
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003
sleep cycler
"Over the past month, I've managed to convert my sleep cycles to something called the Uberman's sleep schedule. The end result is that I am sleeping roughly three hours a day. How did I do it? Is it safe?"
mobile carriers
"The Federal Communications Commission issued rules yesterday allowing consumers for the first time to disconnect their home phones and move their existing phone numbers to cell phones."
sorOn
"Soros, who has financed efforts to promote open societies in more than 50 countries around the world, is bringing the fight home, he said. On Monday, he and a partner committed up to $5 million to MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group, bringing to $15.5 million the total of his personal contributions to oust Bush."
Tuesday, Nov 04, 2003
talkin points blues
daily reports on the state of the nation from the new democratic think tank Center for American Progress.
Thursday, Oct 30, 2003
course correction
"In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean."
under fire
the ny times hires an ombudsmen, the first in the history of the paper of record. however, daniel okrent will likely be remembered (one day) as the man who invented rotisserie baseball which spawned the whole fantasy sports league movement.
off the kaf
"Now, why is that? Where are Kafka's descendants? Only a handful--Borges, W.G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard--have successfully "channeled" the Kafkaesque in any meaningful way. The result has been queer. His influence seems to cause a mutation in the recipient, metamorphosing the novel into something closer to a meditation, a fantastical historiography, an essay, a parable. What is it about Kafka's lessons for the novel that cannot be contained within the novel in the form as we have come to know it? How does Kafka lead novelists away from the novel?"
Monday, Oct 27, 2003
fa so la
all things la v. all things law
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003
over well
"Over the past 15 years, with the acceleration of globalisation, this fourth estate has been stripped of its potential, and has gradually ceased to function as a counterpower. This is shockingly apparent when you look closely at the realities of globalisation. A new type of capitalism is on the rise, not just industrial, but financial, based on speculation. We are witnessing a clash between the market and the state, the public services and the private sector, the individual and society, the personal and the collective, egoism and solidarity."