Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
HALLOWEEN is supposed to last for one night only. At Yale University (motto: “Light and Truth”) it has dragged on considerably longer. As happens at many American universities, Yale administrators sent an advisory e-mail to students before the big night, requesting them to refrain from wearing costumes that other students might find offensive. Given that…
To many, Finland is a member of the euro zone’s fiscally conservative core, alongside Germany. But in the words of its own finance minister, “basically, we are the sick man of Europe.” Indeed, new statistics show just how lousy Finland is performing financially. The Finnish economy is 11% smaller than its 2008 peak, making it…
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Nike introduced some stupid new uniforms for tonight’s Bills-Jets game, and the color-on-color combination is especially bad for people with colorblindness, who are taking to Twitter to let the NFL know their displeasure. We’ve simulated what the game looks like to people with red-green colorblindness (using the formulas supplied here) in the video above. Below,…
Sony has been making some big moves in the streaming industry as of late. Just a few days ago, they announced an agreement with Disney that added the ESPN family of channels, Disney, and ABC to their already robust content line up. Today, they have another announcement: no longer will you need a Playstation 3…
Jeb Bush, by some measures, despises conflict. This is, of course, an especially curious personality trait for someone running for a presidential nomination in one of the largest fields ever. Case in point would be Bush getting railroaded multiple times by John Kasich in last night’s debate. The most memorable time, which you see above,…
It is fair to say that, in examining the twin meltdowns at Yale and the University of Missouri, the pundit class has come down against the tactics of the students, who, in both cases, have been militant and aggressive. The writers have seen parts of each protest—Yale students berating a professor, Mizzou students boxing out…
It was a story tailor-made for your local 10 o’clock news show and your Facebook “trending” feed — security footage out of Washington, DC. of “Women caught on cam twerking & groping” a male stranger. As WUSA-9 reported Tuesday, 22 year-old Ayanna Marie Knight has been arrested over an October incident at a local gas…
About the Fellowship David Carr, who died in February, was the media columnist for The New York Times and one of the most important voices in journalism. The first David Carr Fellow will spend two years at The Times doing work in the spirit of David’s. The focus of the fellow’s work could be steady,…
Remember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, “What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?” You just ran around the playground and played baseball and football. You built sand castles and played tag and asked silly questions and looked for bugs and dug…