March 2009
“The PSA blood test, used to screen for prostate cancer, saves few lives and...”
– Study Finds PSA Test Saves Few Lives - NYTimes.com
“MacHeist is a bit like the T-Shirt Deli, in that it makes the act of buying...”
– Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: What We Can Learn From MacHeist
“baby amortals — think Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s youngest self-made...”
– 5. Amortality - 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now - TIME
“For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
“It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry,...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
“an average 40% increase in calories per serving over the last 70 years”
– Recipes and Vegetables: Now and Then » Lone Gunman
“We have jobs and children and houses and substance-abuse problems to deal with”
– Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies - TIME
“Jer points out that its better to share an existing car than to attempt to make...”
– ETech: Priorities for a Greener World: If You Could Design Anything, What Should You Do? - O’Reilly Radar
“I do not know if there is any way to structure society so that it can make wise...”
– Idle Words
“Human beings have never before caused a radical shift in global climate...”
– Idle Words
“Any algorithm that can reliably predict the behavior of a financial market will...”
– Idle Words
“Some people are just constitutionally passive, but others have a latent ability...”
– Be Relentlessly Resourceful
“Twitter’s incredible. Kind of like a Google News for people.”
– DIYcity’s “SickCity” is now live! :: Focus + Context
“Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population,...”
– Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S. - BusinessWeek