May 2011
“Today’s grads enter a cultural climate that preaches the self as the center of a...”
– It’s Not About You, David Brooks
Climate change: Not all bad!
OK, so yes it is, but still, I do like the sounds of this:
Climate scientists have told city planners that based on current trends, Chicago will feel more like Baton Rouge than a Northern metropolis before the end of this century.
So, Chicago is getting ready for a wetter, steamier future. Public alleyways are being repaved with materials that are permeable to water. The white oak, the state...
"Stop the presses!": Not all that common
From The N.Y. Times’ internal, “Ahead of The Times”, via Playbook:
When Dave Geary of the News Desk made that request on Sunday night because the death of Osama bin Laden, he became only the third person in the last 43 years who is confirmed to have stopped the presses. Al Siegal, who came to the paper in 1960 before retiring in 2006, reports on the only instance he can recall: ‘On the night of...
This Class of Geography Undergrads Honed In on Bin... →
According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 80.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed last night. And they correctly predicted that he would be in a large town, not a cave.
missprinted:
Via Evan Osnos, on a quip circulating in China re: Bin Laden’s death (although it strangely leaves out the fifth):
Al Qaeda once sent five terrorists to China: One was sent to blow up a bus, but he wasn’t able to squeeze onto it; one was sent to blow up a supermarket, but the bomb was stolen from his basket; one was sent to blow up a train, but tickets were sold-out; finally, one...
“When a former Navy SEAL was called for a comment about this article all he could...”
– Meet The ‘Seal Team 6’, The Bad-Asses Who Killed Osama Bin Laden
