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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Dan Charnas: The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
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In December 2010, an NPR Staff writer wrote, “How Hip0Hop Became a Cash Machine” for the show, All Things Considered. Thirty years ago, hip...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
W. J. T. Mitchell: Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
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From the University of Chicago Press : The phrase “War on Terror” has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the Amer...
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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In December, 2010, the Financial Times had this to say about the book: The book’s title is taken from the Greek myth in which Procrustes fit...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Bill Carter and "The War for Late Night"
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The New York Times introduces Bill Carter's new book this way: [In] his new book, “The War for Late Night,” Bill Carter, a television re...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Predictor of Financial Crisis Dispenses Bite-Sized Wisdom from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)
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Nassim Taleb is the philosopher and former trader who correctly predicted that the mathematical models Wall Street used to measure risk wou...
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