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• Echo Chamber of Secrets: 30 Media Muggles and their Harry Potter Counterparts

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  It’s no secret that grown-ups love the Harry Potter series almost as much as kids – maybe even more, based on certain grown-up references that the average 12-year-old can’t quite yet appreciate. More to the point, by this time a whole bunch of Harry Potter fans who were once kids, back when the book came out, ...
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• Item! And everything!

  
  The Fluent Self — Authority: 493
  A somewhat goofy mini-collection of stuff I’ve been reading, stuff I’ve been thinking about and oh, some completely random crap. Basically the stuff that never gets mentioned here because I’m not the kind of person who can just make some teeny little point. Not into the whole brevity thing, as the Dude would ...
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• Igon Value: Pinker on Gladwell’s What The Dog Saw

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 144
  I’m kind of surprised at the ignorance of some writers, especially when it comes to mathematical terms, such as Igon Value . For those of you who don’t know, it’s not igon value, but eigenvalue. Here’s what eigenvalues are all about. The name come from the German word eigen , which means “self”. ...
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• Power Grid: Meghan McCain And Andrew Sullivan Ride The Going Rogue Wave

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  If you’ve been following the news media over the past two weeks, then you know the big stories inside and out: an Alaskan woman wrote a book and some elected officials are working on making new laws. Or so we’ve heard. You’ve seen endless consideration given to Sarah Palin ’s Going Rogue and heard debates ...
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• Interview with Keith Stanovich

  
  Solution Focused Change? Doing What Works — Authority: 417
  By Coert VisserDr. Keith Stanovich, Professor of Human Development and Applied Psychology of the University of Toronto, is a leading expert on the psychology of reading and on rationality. His latest book, What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought, shows that IQ tests are very incomplete ...
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• Saturday Night Mind Dump…

  
  My World — Authority: 135
  Great night tonight Really weird not having Paul there, but Austin did a great job I don’t know if Revolution would be where it is today without the help that Austin gave us at the very beginning and in helping us find Paul If you are interested in participating in Revolution’s fast this week or fasting in ...
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• Chuck Klosterman: American Polymath Napkin [Duan!]

  
  ipiko — Authority: 155
  Chuck Klosterman plugs his Dinosaur book by doing an interview with the good people at American Polymath blog. Okay, truth be told, this interview gave me a reason to commission another napkin caricature from Craggs. He opted for a beardless Klosterman because "beards are difficult in this medium — too ...
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• Chuck Klosterman: American Polymath Napkin [Duan!]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 793
  Chuck Klosterman plugs his Dinosaur book by doing an interview with the good people at American Polymath blog. Okay, truth be told, this interview gave me a reason to commission another napkin caricature from Craggs. He opted for a beardless Klosterman because "beards are difficult in this medium — too ...
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• Pinker, Blinkin’, and (Shaggy) Dog

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 487
  Clash of the Bushy-Headed, Best-Selling Metaphorical Eponyms, as Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker ( The Lan guage Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought ) assays tress-same-made* trendspotting journo Malcolm Gladwell ’s ( The Tipping ...
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• The Tipping Point is the latest book for the Oconee County Democratic Committee

  
  Oconee County, GA Politics — Authority: 139
  Oconee County Democratic Committees book club will be meeting 6 pm Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at Five Points Deli in on Epps Bridge Road. Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:01:21 -0500 Subject: [oconee] The Tipping Point   Two things: First, I wanted to let you know we raised ...
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• Beating a Dead Horse, Part XVIII

  
  Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog — Authority: 627
  Why is it worth thinking about Malcolm Gladwell? Because Malcolm takes the politically correct conventional wisdom (you cant make useful predictions about people, heredity doesnt matter, just environment and effort, etcetera etcetera) seriously enough to apply it in all sorts of situations where a more prudent hack ...
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• NY Times publishes Gladwells letter and Pinkers response

  
  Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog — Authority: 627
  In the New York Times here . Youve already seen Gladwells letter , with his ad hominem attack on me as a crimethinker. Id half-assumed that the NYT would cut that part out in the interests of saving space, but they left it in. From the NYT: Steven Pinker replies: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice ...
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• Malcolm Gladwell Responds to Steven Pinker

  
  Paper Cuts — Authority: 602
  An exchange of letters between Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker on the subject of Pinkers recent review of Malcolm Gladwells "What the Dog Saw."
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• Malcolm Galdwell on Cobert Report

  
  MissTheda.com — Authority: 150
  Malcolm Gladwell is such a loveable bookworm. He describes his books as “adventures, excursions into the world of ideas.”
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• If youre so smart, why arent you rich?

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 508
  Does being smart help you become rich? Folksy Warren Buffett once said that an investor with IQ of 150 should sell 30 points to someone else, as anything above 120 is unnecessary. Consider the following simple model (we can call it the "Igon Model" in honor of Malcolm Gladwell ): Igon Model : IQ correlates ...
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• "Vino con su pinche achichincle" [ALTA Conference]

  
  Three Percent - Article — Authority: 517
  As if it isn’t obvious from my earlier posts about ALTA , I’m a huge fan of the conference, the people, the panels. (To riff on the nature of the panels for a second: these are almost anti- MLA type events. It’s an unwritten—or maybe even written—rule that you don’t read a paper on an ALTA panel. ...
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• 2 GenX thinkers have new books out

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) and Steven Levitt (b. 1967 [same year as me, which of course makes me feel like a loser, because what have I done, right?]) both have new books out. Both are GenXer and both are innovative thinkers. Indicative of the GenX mindset they think quite differently than most others in their ...
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• Sarah Palin Finally Figured Out, by Malcolm Gladwell

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 550
  “IF YOU BLINK , YOU MIGHT MISS WHAT THE DOG SAW : THAT SARAH PALIN IS NOT REALLY AN OUTLIER IN THE GOP, BUT ACTUALLY JUST TYPICAL OF A PARTY THAT THREATENS TO BE THE TIPPING POINT IN SETTING US BACK NOT 10,000 HOURS … BUT 10,000 YEARS !” ...
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• What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell

  
  S. Krishna's Books — Authority: 555
  Title: What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures Author: Malcolm Gladwell ISBN: 9780316075848 Pages: 432 Release Date: October 20, 2009 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Genre: Non-Fiction, Essays Source: Publisher Rating: 4 out of 5 Summary: What the Dog Saw is a collection ...
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• The HoG25: The 25 Best Writers of the Past 25 Years (Part II)

  
  House of Georges — Authority: 125
  Were back again, and in case youre new to the House, this HoG25 thing weve been doing for the past few months has included NFL quarterbacks, American cinema, baseball hitters, readin books, starting pitchers, television shows, and wide receivers. And in case you missed the first chunk of this segment, you can find it ...
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