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From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 5, 2020 at 5:44 am ET
Sports Illustrated has recently made available online one of the finest sports stories I've ever read, Gary Smith's profile of former Temple basketball coach John Cheney. He starts speaking to the players in that low, ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 5, 2020 at 5:33 am ET
Ms. Hillary: "This issue of energy and global warming has the promise of creating millions of new jobs in America. It can be a win-win, if we do it right." James Pethokoukis: "Of course, many ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 5, 2020 at 5:27 am ET
P. J. O'Rourke, doing what he does, like nobody else does it: "Fairness, Idealism and Other Atrocities". Thanks to Skip Sauer for the link. ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 5, 2020 at 5:17 am ET
A New York Times columnist held a contest for parents: specify "What Kids Need to Know". Some of the advice I liked best: Don't do dumb things. Respect the nap. Don't forget your parents. Don't ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 4, 2020 at 5:33 am ET
The Angry Bear blog links to a NASA report that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has "flipped to its cool phase", meaning that for the next decade or two the planet may cool. Steven Goddard at ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 4, 2020 at 5:13 am ET
LA Weekly writer Jonathan Gold praises "entry-level capitalism"--Mexican food trucks. The best thing I had to eat last week was a massive carnitas huarache, from the Gorditas Lupita’s truck on Eagle Rock Boulevard near Avenue ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 3, 2020 at 5:46 am ET
I have found the information in "The 46 Best-Ever Freeware Utilities" useful. And, as it says, it's undated frequently. (Reminder to link from reader and blogger Michael Greenspan.) ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 3, 2020 at 5:24 am ET
Ben Casnocha, young entrepreneur extraordinare, summarizes an article about how to perform when the pressure is on. ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 2, 2020 at 5:22 am ET
If you haven't tried Google Maps's "Street View" yet, it's worth a minute of your time. Here's my local paper's review. (Unfortunately, it's not available for the whole country yet. But it is for at ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2020 at 5:52 am ET
A New York Times article describes the "radical" experiment in progress in the post-Katrina New Orleans public schools. It includes one teacher's concise summary of the difficulty the schools face: “Most of the kids come ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2020 at 5:35 am ET
Mike Munger--now, officially, a candidate for North Carolina governor!--asks "Can An Omnipotent Government Make a Rock Bigger Then It Can Lift?" (Cato Unbound, 2/15/08.) The danger to limited government, the threat to the Montesquieuan system ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2020 at 5:32 am ET
The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, opines that finance jobs shouldn't be so remunerative. Lots of luck with that, Mr. King. Link via my colleague, Richard Warr. ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2020 at 5:29 am ET
When you absolutely, positively have to recover data from a wrecked hard drive, you can try DriverSavers. This is a brief look at them. (Their price varies with the size of the job and the ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 30, 2020 at 5:44 am ET
Long but very worth-reading article on Three Mile Island and nuclear power in GQ. The heart of the piece: At Three Mile Island, according to a 1980 inquiry by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the maximum ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 30, 2020 at 5:17 am ET
"Casino insider tells (almost) all about security". Even if you are cheating, and they know you're cheating, they might leave you alone if you're not that good at cheating. Take card counting: While counting cards ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 30, 2020 at 5:07 am ET
Improve the world: teach a young person the fundamentals of personal finance. (Link via Instapundit.) ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2020 at 5:44 am ET
Washington Post article claims that the supposedly horrible contest for the Democratic presidential nomination illustrates "the tragedy of the commons": Individuals embroiled in similar dilemmas find them impossible to solve on their own, because they ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2020 at 5:36 am ET
Times staffers have to watch their Jacksons more carefully these days. (Thanks to Michael Greenspan for the link.) ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2020 at 5:35 am ET
I don't imagine there's a good way to prove this, but the intuition seems sound: "More data usually beats better algorithms". ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2020 at 5:31 am ET
Dad takes seven-year-old son to a ballgame. Dad--he's a U. of Michigan professor who doesn't watch much TV--buys son "hard lemonade," not knowing that it has alcohol. Policeman sends son to the hospital, and Dad ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2020 at 5:25 am ET
J. K. Rowling sues to prevent a "reference guide" to Harry Potter from being published. "Closely-watched case may spell trouble for software patents". ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 28, 2020 at 5:46 am ET
Most of these resources are pretty well-known; some of them have even been touted here. But it's nice to have links to them in a single place. And here are Ngan Dinh's own suggestions. (You ... ( more)
From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 28, 2020 at 5:37 am ET
For each of the last fifteen years I've had to have at least one blood draw or other medical need to puncture a vein. (Some years I've had many more than one.) I have had ... ( more)
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