December 2010
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Dec 31st
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“Such a level of economic inequality, not seen in the United States since the eve...”
– “Why the Rich are Getting Richer,” in Foreign Affairs.
Dec 31st
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“Scientists now know that, while introverts have no special advantage in...”
– On being an introvert in an extroverted world, from Psychology Today. (via utnereader)
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Floating Elvises. →
Dec 29th
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A guide to the market oligopoly system →
powhida: Financial blogger Felix Salmon on my drawing about the economics of the art industry.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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bbook: “Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“The world could be so cockaludicrous, so full of snools and dickspeakers....”
– Now that’s a lede. Sara Corbett, in the New York Times Magazine, on the life of feminist thinker Mary Daly.
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via hyperallergic)
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“What happens when a museum allows its richest board member (in this case, a...”
– Howard Halle on Skin Fruit, at the New Museum. I don’t agree with a number of choices on his best/worst art list of 2010, but it’s certainly one helluva read. (Via Art Fag City.)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Alpacas with Post Punk Hair  →
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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thesmithian: 3-D animated graffiti. hm. Whoa.
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“…refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given...”
– Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, in an e-mail to staff 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was “on track to be the warmest [decade] on record.” via Media...
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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hragv asked: Why are you so awesome?
Dec 14th
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aurorac asked: It's awesome to find another person who is part Peruvian.
Anyway to the question:

What is your favorite thing you have learned through your research about Peru?
Dec 14th