June 2010
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Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? →
That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago by Ezra Klein, in which he interviewed a friend of his who went to Wall Street after Harvard. Having seen this phenomenon from a couple of different angles, I’d say the interview is right on. This is how Klein summarizes the central theme:
“The impression of the Ivy-to-Wall Street pipeline is that it’s all about the money. You’re saying that it’s...
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Scissors for Lefty - Next to Argyle...
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The Quest to Design the Perfect Yawn →
Robert Provine had this deliciously dangerous idea.
The professor of psychology at the University of Maryland remembered the famous Monty Python sketch about a joke so funny that it killed anyone who heard it; The British, naturally, wanted to use it against the Germans, and the Germans vice versa, and both sides furiously pushed to develop the first “Doomsday Joke.”
Professor...
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The Way We Live Now - The Why-Worry Generation →
“Almost universally they want to find a job that’s not just a job but an expression of their identity, a form of self-fulfillment,” says Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a Clark University psychology professor who interviewed hundreds of young people across the economic spectrum for his book, “Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From the Late Teens Through the Twenties.”
Not only do they believe these...
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Travel, it makes you smarter →
bobulate:
Jonah Lehrer on travel as a basic human desire that makes you smarter, more open-minded, and creative:
When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we’d suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilities … that never would have occurred to us if we’d stayed back on the farm. Furthermore, this more relaxed sort...
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May 2010
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What do you hope to achieve with the project?
…all I’m trying to do is take interesting photographs. I’m a photographer, not a social worker.
– Tony Fouhse
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Roger Ebert, on Frisson →
I love that even though Ebert is a self-professed Twitter junkie, his longform is still on point.
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Bill Withers - Lean on Me (Editor’s note: my...
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