Category Archives: reading

Thinking about ideas

Posted on May 17, 2008 by mim

Marios pointed me to this article from the New Yorker, again by Malcolm Gladwell. I’ve been thinking about many of these ideas lately, and Gladwell seems to have come up with them at the same time… The article is both … Continue reading →

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Ormia ochracea

Posted on April 7, 2008 by mim

I was reading Fay and Popper’s book Sound source localization and came across an awesome chapter about the auditory localization abilities of insects by Daniel Robert. With a distance of just millimeters between their ears of the same size, they’re … Continue reading →

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Megachurch lessons

Posted on December 2, 2007 by mim

Last week’s New Yorker has an article entitled “Come one, come all” by Frances Fitzgerald about a new megachurch in Connecticut called Faith Church. I was expecting a description of a big box store filled with evangelical fire and brimstone, … Continue reading →

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Philip Roth on the past in the present

Posted on October 4, 2007 by mim

I was reading Hermione Lee’s interview with Philip Roth in the New Yorker and was struck by Roth’s observation: Even if one is not, strictly speaking, “haunted,” the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it … Continue reading →

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Gladwell on Enron

Posted on January 2, 2007 by mim

Malcolm Gladwell seems to be everywhere I want to be. He wrote an article in the New Yorker in October about movie hit prediction, which is related, albeit tangentially, to my own research on music recommendation. This week, he has … Continue reading →

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