“Praise should be unstinting and unironic, however much snark has hold in your heart….”
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Could this laser zap malaria?
Nathan Myhrvold and team’s latest inventions — as brilliant as they are bold — remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito-zapping gizmo you have to see to believe.
The Best of Quiche: My Journey Through Race and Racism
When I was a kid, everyone in my neighborhood was divided into categories along three dimensions. There were color differences (light vs. dark hair and skin), there was the Catholic vs. Protestant divide, and there was the binary distinction of whether or not your dad served in World War II. In fourth grade and again in seventh, I attended a new school and each time encountered a greater diversity of kids and teachers and learned about new kinds of people. At the same time, I would often visit my father at work, and during the summer he and I would have breakfast downtown at the Dewitt Clinton. Then we’d go our separate ways to our respective jobs (he had a real job…I had one of those urban make-work jobs designed to get the kids off the streets), and in these contexts, I met some adults that were different from the ones in my neighborhood.
Timing
Criticizing an event in progress is often futile, both because it’s frequently difficult to stop or redirect a process in motion and because ongoing events will distract from your message.
Reconstructing Criticism: Transparency
… None of us want to think that criticism is actually about our behavior. It’s much, much easier to dismiss it as the product of someone else’s biased thinking. It’s much easier to say, “This isn’t about what I do, because no matter what I do, this person is not going to like it or me.” …
I carry a badge…
The social transaction here is a major theme of both Dragnet and Adam-12, and one that would later be developed in new directions by TV shows like COPS.
…. Read on
The Best of Quiche: Political Rants
You know I’m reviewing my QM blogging. Time for some rants.
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Get your program, cant’ tell what’s going on without a program: 9750 Words on Elena Kagan
Rachel Maddow suggests this as the Must Read document for the impending confirmation process.
Constructive v. Destructive Criticism.
How do you build up a movement with destructive criticism?
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Yeah, that’s what I thought. But that doesn’t stop the makers of sites like You’re Not Helping from going flat-out negative, even when they’re offering “praise.”
Obama may name Elena Kagan to Supreme Court
Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor-General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, US media reports say.
The White House has not yet commented, but Mr Obama is scheduled to announce his choice at 1000 (1400 GMT).
If confirmed, she would be the youngest member and the third woman on the court as well as the first justice in nearly four decades not to have been a judge.
Happy Birthday, Monty Python
School of Environmental Studies Whale Research Program
The Best of Quiche: Now for a little fine dining.
In the continuing series recycling highlighting selected posts from the Quiche Moraine Blog, may I recommend a bite to eat ….
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The Best of Quiche: Let’s start with some music.
PZ Myers Speaks!
… in Edina.
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