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June 10th, 2011 - 1:38 pm § in Misc.

Visiting Boston .. What did we find ^$ **%$$ Chihuly at the MFA

What a downer.   This WAS a great ART museum!  I guess the next step will be pet rocks, crotch shots of Weiner, and toys based on AVATAR III.[...]

June 10th, 2011 - 1:12 pm § in The Ave Scene

What James Joyce, Shakespeare Tell Us About Education Battles Today

from Huff Post Declan Kiberd’s new book, Ulysses and us: The art of everyday life in Joyce’s masterpiece, …(argues that) … Ulysses, the holy grail of difficult novels of the 20th Century, was never supposed to be a remote, impenetrable text. Indeed Joyce was, like many Irish [...]

June 10th, 2011 - 12:20 pm § in Misc.

Error in Science

from The Scientist’ Sara Greene I was delighted to see a couple recent F1000 evaluations that strayed from traditional peer-reviewed literature. F1000 Members Frank Harrell, a biostatistician at Vanderbilt Medical School, and Daniel Beard, a bioengineer at the Medical College of Wisconsin, ind[...]