Dear Globalization: Thanks For The Edamame
We took our visiting 12-year-old granddaughter out to dinner last night, and she insisted on ordering edamame, which I too love. I discovered it at age 60 and would never have seen it in the U.S. at age 12 in 1955. Earlier in the day, I had bought a cherimoya at the local grocery store. Read More »
How to Attack Global Poverty? Bring Your Questions for the Authors of More Than Good Intentions
The experts generally fall into two camps when it comes to alleviating global poverty: those who believe we simply need to spend more money in more places; and those who think that too many billions have already been spent too inefficiently and ineffectively, requiring a new and smarter approach to aid. Read More »
FREAK-est Links
- Why Snooki might be “worth” more than a Nobel Prize-winner.
- James Surowiecki on the current state of the economy.
- FBI releases 1950 Roswell memo about “bodies of human shape.”
Clearing Out the “Rubber Rooms”
New York City Dept. of Education has been savaged over reports that it stows bad teachers in ‘rubber rooms’ rather than simply firing them. A new report says that many of those teachers are being returned to the classroom after having paid a fine. Read More »
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. If you haven’t seen it yet, the movie features Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, and was made by a dream team of documentary directors. Paste Magazine named it one of the 