Haitian: “That’s life…and life, like death, lasts only a little while” (New...
Edwidge Danticat in this week’s New Yorker has a haunting short essay about his cousins in the Haitian earthquake’s aftermath. The magnitude of that disaster has been too hard to read about on a daily...
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Fries and Flavor
For your Friday reading pleasure, a 2001 Atlantic article (adapted from his “Fast Food Nation“) by Eric Schossler on Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good: The taste of a french fry is largely determined...
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“Letting Go”– The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande, on giving up life to live
Trinity Church Cemetery Dr. Atul Gawande’s latest New Yorker piece is described as another examination on on what’s behind the cost of health care, but it serves more as a lesson on how to both cope...
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What does China *really* know about cutting-edge technology, anyway?
Left: a Seagate factory in Wuxi, China A couple of anecdotes to remember before accepting the conventional wisdom that all China is good for is mass-producing (or copying) non-Chinese tech products...
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Is Solitary Confinement Torture? From Atul Gawande and the New Yorker
Punishment Cells. From: Page 257 of part II of Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich «Sakhalin (Katorga)», Moscow. Sytin publisher, 1905. Thanks to longform.org for spotlighting another thought-provoking piece...
View ArticleHaitian: “That’s life…and life, like death, lasts only a little while” (New...
Edwidge Danticat in this week’s New Yorker has a haunting short essay about his cousins in the Haitian earthquake’s aftermath. The magnitude of that disaster has been too hard to read about on a daily...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fries and Flavor
For your Friday reading pleasure, a 2001 Atlantic article (adapted from his “Fast Food Nation“) by Eric Schossler on Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good: The taste of a french fry is largely determined...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Letting Go”– The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande, on giving up life to live
Trinity Church Cemetery Dr. Atul Gawande’s latest New Yorker piece is described as another examination on on what’s behind the cost of health care, but it serves more as a lesson on how to both cope...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What does China *really* know about cutting-edge technology, anyway?
Left: a Seagate factory in Wuxi, China A couple of anecdotes to remember before accepting the conventional wisdom that all China is good for is mass-producing (or copying) non-Chinese tech products...
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Is Solitary Confinement Torture? From Atul Gawande and the New Yorker
Punishment Cells. From: Page 257 of part II of Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich «Sakhalin (Katorga)», Moscow. Sytin publisher, 1905. Thanks to longform.org for spotlighting another thought-provoking piece...
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