December 2011
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Writing I've liked, 2011
Not everything was published this year; I just happened to read it. education and the humanities: How Billionaires Rule Our Schools Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business Harvard and Class Why Bother? Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling sports: The Pain Principle Federer as Religious Experience sex and gender: My First Time, Twice Transitions ...
Dec 31st
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“Here’s the nut: The F.D.A. has no money to spare, but the corporations that...”
– Mark Bittman
Dec 28th
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“As a scientific naturalist, I gain my inspiration from overlaying my...”
– Bernd Heinrich in Field Notes: on Science & Nature (a Christmas present I am much enjoying). Heinrich, incidentally, had an excellent running career.
Dec 27th
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“Be more comfortable with agnostic, and I mean this about the things that make...”
– Tyler Cowen (transcript)
Dec 27th