Random Articles

• On Knowing Your Filters’ Bias “…I can tell fairly accurately, based on Ebert’s opinion and Roeper’s counterpoint or agreement, whether I will like a movie or not.” - J Wynia
• Shrug The Movie Thanks to Tyler Cowen for passing along word of Atlas Shrugged the Movie. Fun Facts from the previous link: First draft of Part 1’s (of 3 ??!!) script completed and rated 8/10 in ‘philosophical fidelity to the novel’. Angelina Jolie is interested in playing, “the greatest female character in all of literature”, Dagny Taggert. “…everybody has been waiting breathlessly
• Low Hanging Snark “An inexperienced picker would pick the low-hanging fruit first” - Albert Pell quoted in Fast Company In the instances where I’ve heard the phrase ‘low-hanging fruit’ the above is true. Rarely does picking the easy stuff solve anything than checking something off a list. The real important, long-term actions take the commitment of getting a ladder. Or
• Working With Nature to Stop Climate Change “Researchers at the University of Wales are looking at how introducing different grasses into cattle diets can help reduce methane emissions. Cattle and dairy cows on factory farms are typically fed a high-protein diet of corn and soybeans, which…leads to a variety of digestive problems. Scientists believe that more-digestible feed will reduce these problems and
• Sunday Morning Dot Connection “Airport security is the last line of defense, and not a very good one at that. Sure, it’ll catch the sloppy and the stupid — and that’s a good enough reason not to do away with it entirely — but it won’t catch a well-planned plot. We can’t keep weapons out of prisons 1; we