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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
Happiness Policy (“Should happiness data decide policy … and could a drug like Brave New World’s soma or an app that stimulates the brain’s pleasure centers be the ultimate policy tool?”)
Social Commentary Headline of the Week
Family learns of student’s death on Facebook (via)
Blog Headlines of the […]
It was required reading for all three of my daughters in high school. My oldest daughter still considers it one of her favorite novels. It escaped my attention (or I avoided its reach) for decades. I am an initiate now, though.
“It” is The Great Gatsby. I’ve know it’s generally been required high school reading […]
I have been noticeably absent the last couple weeks, busy enough with work and family that I haven’t even posted any weekend editions. In fact, I still haven’t written a planned review of a book I read a month ago. In any event, Thanksgiving seemed a good time to post an edition of linkage. Some […]
Bookish Linkage
Is there life left in the music memoir?
It looks like a lot of us judge others based on the content of their bookshelves. (You can participate online.) (via)
Three Percent has its first edition of the 2012 Translation Database online
Nonbookish Linkage
Almost every Obama conspiracy theory ever (via)
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Like perhaps most everyone, occasionally something strikes you that makes you think about those three or five people, dead or alive, you would invite to dinner if your could. Now anyone who reads this blog might well think that Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are on the “must invite” list. To be honest, though, I […]
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