Thursday, June 25, 2009
NYTimes.com: "I would not be telling you the truth if I said the words ‘Dark Knight’ did not come up."
[bookmark]Sunday, June 21, 2009
washingtonpost.com: "humans are bad at making up numbers"
[bookmark]FiveThirtyEight: "That said, life expectancy is important. If you're going to make a raw comparison, I'd rather compare countries on life expectancy than on cancer survival rates or the availability of hip replacements and cataract surgery. Or, to put it another way, if health care doesn't matter, if the main driver of life expectancies in America is the way we eat and live, then maybe it would make sense to spend 50% less on our health care system."
[bookmark]Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Los Angeles Times: "...scheduled maintenance would be delayed from overnight -- daytime in Iran -- to 2 to 3 p.m. Pacific time Tuesday, which would be the middle of the night in Iran."
[bookmark]Valleywag: "...the very social networking tools conceived as intangible ideas by young Americans just a few short years ago in dorm rooms and basements and garages have now come to fruition as something tangible with the power to influence the course of events halfway across the world..."
[bookmark]Tuesday, June 02, 2009