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A Mother, a Son and a Wife

From The Wall Street Journal: Jim Brown knew he was in trouble before his mother finished asking the question. "Am I a better cook than your wife?" she asked, calmly stirring a pot on the stove in her kitchen. With his wife, Joy, standing next to ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Jim Brown, Fallout, Crisis

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Walter Willett

The big fat truth

From Nature: Late in the morning on 20 February, more than 200 people packed an auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of the event, according to its organizers, was to explain why a new study about ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Walter Willett, Overweight, Epidemiology, Obesity

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

University of Westminster

Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories

Maggie Koerth-Baker in the New York Times: In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers were ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Conspiracy, University of Westminster, Speculations

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

The Moral Status of Rocks

Justin E. H. Smith in his blog: A student in rural Iceland, of sheep-farming stock, had her guard down, or didn't yet have a guard. She didn't know how to talk to foreigners, or perhaps felt there was something she had to get across to foreigners, ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Environment, Iceland, Ethical

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

The need for critical science journalism

Jalees Rehman in The Guardian: The bulk of contemporary science journalism falls under the category of "infotainment". This expression describes science writing that informs a non-specialist target audience about new scientific discoveries in an ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago]

Entities: TARGET AUDIENCE, Robotics, Informant

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

The stories of two Palestinian villages: From Al-Araqib to Susiya

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First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Why race as a biological construct matters

Razib Khan in Gene Expression: My own inclination has been to not get bogged down in the latest race and IQ controversy because I don’t have that much time, and the core readership here is probably not going to get any new information from me, ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 9 hours ago]

Entities: African-Americans, Madison Grant, Razib Khan

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

a pretty funny book

I would dearly love to be able to start this piece by saying thatThe Poor Mouth is the funniest book ever written. It’d be a real lapel-grabber, for one thing, an opening gambit the casual Millions reader would find it hard to walk away from. And ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Brian O'Nolan, Shalom Auslander

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Terrence Malick

As such, a number of temptations continue to arise when discussing Malick. Foremost among these is the tendency to perpetuate the go-to myths: that the famously media-shy filmmaker is also a recluse, or that he once disappeared from Hollywood for two ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Terrence Malick, Waco (Texas, United States), The New York Times Company, Ottawa

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Kertész and auschwitz

Nobel laureate Imre Kertész is certainly no stranger to controversy. His radical reconceptualization of the term “Holocaust” — in whose “unscrupulous employment” he locates “a cowardly and unimaginative glibness” — to extend beyond the scope of the ... [Published 3quarksdaily - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Imre Kertész, Holocaust, Dictatorship, Kaddish

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

An Unheralded Breakthrough: The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics

From Scientific American: There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but in 2001 the Norwegian government established a million-dollar Abel Prize, which is widely considered as an equivalent of the Nobel for mathematicians. This year’s prize was ... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]

Entities: André Weil, Rosetta Stone Inc, Mathematician, Pierre Deligne, Geometry

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain

Sarfraz Manzoor in The Telegraph: Mahinder Singh Pujji, a 22-year-old Indian man, was queuing to see a film at his local cinema. The man in front of him saw his turban and uniform – Pujji was a member of the RAF – and said: “Sir, you don’t have ... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]

Entities: United Kingdom, Mahinder Singh, Sophia Duleep Singh, Sarfraz Manzoor

Quotes

..."While it's true the UK hasn't yet joined the eurozone," I said, " I hope we can all agree the country is in fact in Europe."

Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith' [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]

... Mr. Miller is elderly and retired. When I asked him what he does with his leisure time, and he replied, "What free time? My wife and I spend most of our day in the doctor's office."

The Bystander Effect in Medical Care. Why Do I Have So Many Doctors Not Taking Care of Me? [Published 3quarksdaily - May 20 2013]

"It has been a dream, and this company has made my dream come true" says Mr. Shororo, an accountant, as he receives his order from the delivery guy

KFC smugglers bring buckets of chicken through Gaza tunnels [Published 3quarksdaily - May 16 2013]

... The Weekly Standard quoted the philosopher Daniel Dennett calling Nagel a member of a "retrograde gang" whose work "isn't worth anything—it's cute and it's clever and it's not worth a damn."

Where Thomas Nagel Went Wrong [Published 3quarksdaily - May 15 2013]

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A Mother, a Son and a Wife [Published 3quarksdaily - 2 hours ago]
The big fat truth [Published 3quarksdaily - 2 hours ago]
Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago]
The Moral Status of Rocks [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago]
The need for critical science journalism [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago]
The stories of two Palestinian villages: From A... [Published 3quarksdaily - 9 hours ago]
Why race as a biological construct matters [Published 3quarksdaily - 9 hours ago]
a pretty funny book [Published 3quarksdaily - 11 hours ago]
Terrence Malick [Published 3quarksdaily - 11 hours ago]
Kertész and auschwitz [Published 3quarksdaily - 11 hours ago]
South Asians and the Shaping of Britain [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
An Unheralded Breakthrough: The Rosetta Stone o... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
Why is Europe so Messed Up? An Illuminating His... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property o... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
Is the Brain No Different From a Light Switch? ... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith' [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
germ houses [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
the culture animal [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
I am dust and ashes and full of sin [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
Tuesday Poem [Published 3quarksdaily - May 21 2013]
Aftermath: Pakistan Elections 2013 [Published 3quarksdaily - May 20 2013]
Digging Up Bones or, The Labyrinths beneath Our... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 20 2013]
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Perceptions [Published 3quarksdaily - May 20 2013]
NORTH KOREA’S NERVE WAR [Published 3quarksdaily - May 20 2013]
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The Bystander Effect in Medical Care. Why Do I ... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 20 2013]
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A Mother, a Son and a Wife [Published 3quarksdaily - 2 hours ago] From The Wall Street Journal: Jim Brown knew he was in trouble before his mother finished asking the question. "Am I a better cook than your wife?" she asked, calmly stirring a pot on the stove in her kitchen. With his wife, Joy, standing next to ...
The big fat truth [Published 3quarksdaily - 2 hours ago] From Nature: Late in the morning on 20 February, more than 200 people packed an auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of the event, according to its organizers, was to explain why a new study about ...
Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago] Maggie Koerth-Baker in the New York Times: In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers were ...
The Moral Status of Rocks [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago] Justin E. H. Smith in his blog: A student in rural Iceland, of sheep-farming stock, had her guard down, or didn't yet have a guard. She didn't know how to talk to foreigners, or perhaps felt there was something she had to get across to foreigners, ...
The need for critical science journalism [Published 3quarksdaily - 8 hours ago] Jalees Rehman in The Guardian: The bulk of contemporary science journalism falls under the category of "infotainment". This expression describes science writing that informs a non-specialist target audience about new scientific discoveries in an ...