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December 2011
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Are you more risk-averse than a 5th grader?
The wife, the kids and I were watching the cute game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” and all of a sudden some kind of game theory/philosophy seminar broke out.
The contestant, a woman named Stephanie, had reached the final question, worth $1 million. She had earned $500,000 by correctly answering the previous question. If she got the million-dollar question wrong, she...
November 2011
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The NCAA, explained: The Big Lie →
The Penn State child sex-abuse scandal is heartbreaking, but it isn’t surprising. Not to me. The specifics are shocking, of course, but the depravity of big-time college sports is incapable of surprising me. A sick predator can show up anywhere. But if he’s a key figure in a successful big-time football or basketball program, the kind of enabling and cover-up that allegedly went on for...
October 2011
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September 2011
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My life as a Scorsese movie
One recent morning as I walked through the fare gate at the Montgomery Street BART station I saw a cello quartet sawing away. But I couldn’t hear them because I was listening to music through headphones.
The contrast between what I saw and what I heard made me feel like I was in a Martin Scorsese movie, which is a pretty good feeling to have on a Tuesday morning on your way to work.
Then...
June 2011
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They Can't All Be Winners...: My bleacher report... →
Gerard Martin, I think you should come write for Bleacher Report. Apply for our fall internship (the summer interns just started). You’ll see how we do things, that we’re not a “content farm,” that we put our interns through a rigorous course of instruction, which necessarily requires them to write a lot, with a lot of feedback from professional editors.
You...
March 2011
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February 2011
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Om Malik on AOL-Huffington Post →
AOL’s moves are much like the ending scene from Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Surrounded by the Bolivian Army, Dos Hombres have no choice to make a gallant dash to their horses, guns blazing, hoping against hope as thousand guns blaze around them. The ever-increasing web inventory is like the Bolivian Army firing on AOL and others who have not yet come to terms with the futility of chasing...
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January 2011
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