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Crossing over

Colin Rule
October 23, 2008 18:41

Eric Hirshberg in the Huffington Post: "There are a number of people in my life -- some family, some friends, some colleagues -- with whom I have never agreed upon anything political. Ever. These are my political opposites. My bizarre-o twins. read more

Early hormone exposure and later political inclinations

Colin Rule
October 22, 2008 16:37

Olivia Judson in the NYT: "First, according to a report published last month in the journal Science, strong political views are correlated with distinct physiological responses to startling noises and threatening images. read more

All too human

Colin Rule
October 07, 2008 18:26

David Brooks in today's NYT: "money was entrusted to a few thousand traders who sloshed it around the world in search of the highest returns...   read more

Companies Unlikely to Use Arbitration With Each Other

Colin Rule
October 06, 2008 21:22

Jonathan Glater in the NYT Business Section this morning: "Corporate executives routinely sing the praises of arbitration clauses, the language buried in the fine print of contracts for mobile phones or credit cards, for example, that typically bars a consumer from going to court... read more

An ideologue is an ideologue

Colin Rule
October 06, 2008 21:17

Jacques Berlinerblau in the Washington Post's On Faith section: "Maher, a talented stand-up performer, is simply not skilled at, or comfortable with, rapidly converting ideological bile into comedy gold...   read more

Ideology > facts

Colin Rule
September 25, 2008 21:05

Jonathan M. Gitlin on Ars Technica: "We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the truth is that's not always the case. read more

A little respect

Colin Rule
September 23, 2008 18:43

There's an interesting subtext to some of the recent developments in the presidential election: the centrality of respect.   read more

Permeable minds

Colin Rule
September 12, 2008 18:40

At the risk of making this blog look like merely another distribution channel for his column, David Brooks in today's NYT: "...this individualist description of human nature seems to be wrong..."   read more

unity instead of division, looking beyond the old conflicts

Colin Rule
August 26, 2008 16:39

I guess the "Good Brooks" showed up to work today:   read more

How to stop it

Colin Rule
July 31, 2008 14:11

Via my good friend Sanjana, some observations from Jonathan Zittrain's new book The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It): "Though these two inventions—iPhone and Apple II—were launched by the same man, the revolutions that they inaugurated are radically read more