- Two awesome articles about science in a recent nytimes. One about antbirds, a particular species of which seems to survive only on what hordes of ants leave behind. Another about artist Shea Hembrey, who depicts a black hole amazingly through golden straw (h/t Matthew Blan).
- Found via Football Outsiders - a really close analysis of Jay Cutler’s not-so-great quarterbacking.
- Megan McArdle’s interview with Paul Campos on law school is eye-opening. From the interview – [Campos:] “Harvard’s tuition was $12,000 per year IN 2012 DOLLARS in the early 1970s. Now it’s over $50,000 and a couple of schools are closer to $60,000. It’s now routine for people to graduate with $200K and even $300K of educational debt, at plus 7% interest, accruing daily.”
- Been reading more Daredevil, obviously some Persepolis. This comic from Vera Brosgol I’m not sure I shared.
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About Ashok
I am a graduate student in political science at the University of Dallas who thinks the media is dumb for the most part, yet am immersed myself. I am looking to break my addiction, and this blog is part of the solution: Why not try to see what the past can tell us about the present, as opposed to seeing what the present has to say about the present only?
Currently residing in Cherry Hill, NJ. Facebook. Contact me.
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OK, I’m sold. What should I read here?
- Analysis of The Gettysburg Address: Is Democracy Feasible?
- Analysis of Lincoln's "Second Inaugural:" Where do American virtues lie?
- Commentary on the Book of Jonah
- On "Batman Begins"
- From Love to God: On Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
- On Emily Dickinson's "These are the days when birds come back..."
- The Coming Age: Macbeth and the Birth of the Modern World
- On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a
- A Reading of Plato's "Crito"
- Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on "The Case of Wagner"
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