Monday Morning reading list
Read these. Be more erudite.
- MetaFilter introduces a music posting site for homemade mixes, podcasts, etc.
- Mainichi Daily News now has Manglish, the English translation of their Manga section. Roll your mouse over the Japanese!
- The AP provides a confusing description of a complicated computer simulation suggesting that all humans have a common ancestor 2,000 to 5,000 years ago. I'll give you a hint on how to jive this with what you know about human evolution - this is a geneological ancestor and not a genetic ancestor. Regardless, you will probably see this linked on a lot of creationist websites. Also, the original paper was published in 2004. I wonder why the AP is just picking up on this now? (Here's a link to the original paper, but you'll need to be on a university network in order to read it.)
- The LA times reviews the economics of happiness, including the old chestnut that regular sex is equivalent to an extra $50,000 a year. It's either a pretty cogent discussion of whether happiness economics is a crap field, or, failing that, if we should all move to Bhutan.
Finally...
- You're gonna see it discussed on all the other blogs, so read the review first. What am I talking about? Why, Ana Marie Cox's NYT review of "Virginity or Death!", of course.
- MetaFilter introduces a music posting site for homemade mixes, podcasts, etc.
- Mainichi Daily News now has Manglish, the English translation of their Manga section. Roll your mouse over the Japanese!
- The AP provides a confusing description of a complicated computer simulation suggesting that all humans have a common ancestor 2,000 to 5,000 years ago. I'll give you a hint on how to jive this with what you know about human evolution - this is a geneological ancestor and not a genetic ancestor. Regardless, you will probably see this linked on a lot of creationist websites. Also, the original paper was published in 2004. I wonder why the AP is just picking up on this now? (Here's a link to the original paper, but you'll need to be on a university network in order to read it.)
- The LA times reviews the economics of happiness, including the old chestnut that regular sex is equivalent to an extra $50,000 a year. It's either a pretty cogent discussion of whether happiness economics is a crap field, or, failing that, if we should all move to Bhutan.
Finally...
- You're gonna see it discussed on all the other blogs, so read the review first. What am I talking about? Why, Ana Marie Cox's NYT review of "Virginity or Death!", of course.
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