Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- How Being Poor Makes You Sick (“…a growing body of evidence suggests that the very condition of living with no money, in a tumultuous environment, and amid stark inequality can alter individuals’ gene expression.”)
- The Myth of a ‘War on Religion’ (“…most secular liberals understand—even if Fox News commentators don’t—that America’s last acceptable religious prejudice isn’t against evangelical Christians. It’s against atheists.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Legal Opinion of the Week
- “As I explained to Plaintiffs’ counsel at the hearing, a court cannot order the Defendants to be nice to the Plaintiffs.” (The entire opinion is a fun read.)
Legal Ruling of the Week
- New York lawyers will be happy to know that finger pointing and yelling at a deposition is not assault (and from my experience New York lawyers are among the most likely to have to worry about that)
Bookish Linkage
- College students want “trigger warnings” on their books
- Comic books: a gateway to reading
- Bookish Lists: 20 new nonfiction books that will make you smarter; 9 most influential works of scientific racism; 7 reasons to give War and Peace a chance if you haven’t read it (I have); 10 authors who disowned their own book; 10 books to read if you’re not going on vacation this summer; Amazon’s most well-read American cities; 11 21st Century books that will be taught in schools
Nonbookish Linkage
- Why superstition works
- And why do people insist on believing things that aren’t true?
- The most bizarre ideas for using nuclear weapons (assuming any idea to use them isn’t grotesque enough)
- How 40 countries view eight “moral issues“
- Who knew there was a best optical illusion of the year
- An inquiry into human-ghost intercourse
…life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
Gene Simmons, Feb. 4, 2002
I question Amazon’s “most well read” list since information about library usage was not included in their collected data.
I agree plus it was based on sales in general, not what was sold. What, if anything, does the fact Dan Brown’s Inferno was the best-selling book overall in the number 1 city say about being “well read”?