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• Cartoon: Why are there no women on this panel?

  
  Mollytics! — Authority: 123
  Laugh? Or cry? I choose both. (Thanks to the ladies of WAM! for the head’s up.)   [Photo source: The New Yorker ] Posted in *politics* Tagged: *women*, cartoon, New Yorker, panel
  9 hours ago

• The New Yorker , by the Numbers [Magazines]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  For the second time this decade, the New York Observer s cobbled together the TOP SECRET masthead of The New Yorker . It sure has a lot of people working for it! A numerical summary, below. The NYOs full masthead listing, with every name and title, is here . An awesome piece of work. Keep in mind that Si ...
  10 hours ago

• I’m Not Hanging Noodles on your Ears (National Geographic)

  
  Kelso's Corner — Authority: 124
  Thats what Russians say when theyre not pulling your leg. This book from National Geographic has this and other intriguing idioms from around the world. Its beautifully illustrated byNew Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits. Good for the holiday gift list. Thanks Jag!
  15 hours ago

• The ‘I Told You So’ File: Entry #1 – On the Origins of Management Science

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 527
  As has been noted here in the past,and more than once , business-inspired organisational models based on ideas like ‘performance’ and ‘results’, like New Zealand’s Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) system, have permeated and even come to define the contemporary university, much for the worse of ...
  19 hours ago

• Joshua Ferris reads George Saunders’s “Adams”

  
  Facilitating Change — Authority: 91
  Every month, The New Yorker ’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009  featured  Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
  22 hours ago

• Read: “Premium Harmony” by Stephen King

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 724
  Weve heard that nobody reads anymore. At his New Yorker Festival reading this fall, Gary Shteyngart described his upcoming novel as a view of a futuristic, totally illiterate New York - "So, next Tuesday," he quipped. Ouch. Here at Flavorpill, we know that a healthy dose of legitimate literature is essential to offset ...
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• Pakistan rejects US report on its nuclear arsenal security

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Islamabad, Nov 10 (DPA) Pakistan’s top military commander rubbished a report that the country was in talks with the US over “added security” for its nuclear arsenal, saying the armed forces were capable of safeguarding the arsenal.The remarks came after the New Yorker magazine cited anonymous officials as saying ...
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• In Their Own Words: Obamacare Is Massive New Entitlement That Worsens Our Fiscal Crisis

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  The Wall Street Journal draws our attention to a burst of honesty from The New Yorker ’s John Cassidy: The future cost savings that the Administration and its congressional allies are promising to deliver are based on wishful thinking and sleight of hand. Over time, the reform, as proposed, would almost ...
  1 day ago

• A week in the writing life of Brian

  
  The Leaf Blower — Authority: 108
  I didnt write much this week, about an hour each morning. I spent the weekend at parents house and its impossible to write there. Im not sure why. I could have stolen away an hour or two, locked myself in a room. Maybe its the sense that theres someone just outside the door, even if there isnt. A muscle memory from ...
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• Dr. Seuss and Flit: "An Optimist"

  
  The Muffyoglb — Authority: 122
  On January 4, 1930, Dr. Seuss gives us two tragically mutated Lovecraftian nightmares...AND a well-worn vaudeville joke! This "What is an Optimist?" schtick was a big thing at one time, but its hard to know whether it was passe by 1930. I bring this up because throughout its first year of publication the ...
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• Health Care Reform

  
  Interstitial — Authority: 125
  The Wall Street Journal is quoting John Cassidy from The New Yorker explaining what Obamacare really is and why Nancy Pelosi was willing to sacrifice the careers of several House members to get it passed:Mr. Cassidy is more honest than the politicians whose dishonesty he supports. “The U.S. government is making a ...
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• Excited about International SF

  
  Ecstatic Days — Authority: 631
  The Apex Book of World SF has just been released, and I’m excited. It’s been a long time in the making – from conception, to convincing the venerable Secret Masters of Apex Books to take it on, to the reading and the soliciting and the selection, and putting it all together – but it’s finally out, and ...
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• Report regarding Pak sharing nuke info with US ‘absurd and plain mischief’: General Majid

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Rawalpindi, Nov.10 (ANI): Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Tariq Majid has rebuked reports regarding Islamabad sharing information about its nuclear assets with foreign countries ,terming them as ‘absurd and plain mischief.’Referring to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s report ...
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• Not Reading

  
  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog — Authority: 108
  The New Yorker attacks Levitt and Dubner’s geo-engineering: Though climate change is a grave problem, Levitt and Dubner treat it mainly as an opportunity to show how clever they are. So the problem is “grave,” but if you provide a solution, that’s just you trying to make yourself look clever?  Doesn’t ...
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• Betsy Kolbert spanks the Superfreaks

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 541
  The Part Two of my criticism of the Superfreakonomics authors and geo-engineering is languishing in my drafts folder. I’m not sure how much interest remains in further debunking of their nonsense, but for those who can’t get enough, and are interested in a wonderful skewering of Levitt and Dubner’s ...
  2 days ago

• How To Eat A Chicken Wing Video

  
  Greg In The Desert — Authority: 110
  There is a YouTube video making it’s way around the internet titled “ How To Eat A Chicken Wing ” by foodwishes.com . I have been a chicken wing connoisseur since I used to eat 10 cent wings at the Native New Yorker in Arizona (which was supposed to come to Rio Rancho). I now prefer the Wing Basket in New ...
  2 days ago

• Nobody Understands the New Yorkers Cartoons

  
  My Pink Half Of The Drain Pipe — Authority: 114
  Have you ever been told something is hilarious, only for you not to get it? The New Yorker kindly gave a guide to understanding its famously inscrutable cartoons this week. I am a big fan of the cartoons that the magazine selects. Some are dry, some silly, some just fatuous. I get them, though. Of course there are ...
  2 days ago

• This Weeks New Yorker Caption Contest

  
  Caveat Productions — Authority: 121
  Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest . Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption. "I’m the ghost of Christmas farts." Here are the left overs... You forgot to flush again, here’s your quarter. Hi, I’m your hang over. Here are the nominees... ...
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• Two Sides of the Same Story: Laskas & Gladwell on CTE & the NFL

  
  blprnt.blg — Authority: 500
  In October, I read a fascinating article on GQ.com about head injuries among former NFL players. Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas, the article was a forensic detective story, documenting a little known doctor’s efforts to bring the brain trauma issue to the attention of the medical community, the NFL, and the ...
  2 days ago

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