Archive for August, 2002
In other news, here’s some interesting commentary on the risks and benefits of anti-malarial drugs.
Could the increase in Silicon Valley autism cases be related to “geek genes”?
Rocketinfo is the best news search engine I’ve seen. (Regular search engines only index the Web periodically, but news search engines do so on a daily basis–often several times a day–and include links to newly-posted news items.) News.google.com, Daypop.com, and Pandia are good, but from what I can tell, Rocketinfo takes the cake.
Soccer news: following a strong World Cup showing, the US men’s national team has been ranked ninth in the world. This marks the first time the American team has cracked the top ten.
Here’s a visual demonstration of how an attack on Iraq might go down. With description in Spanish.
The crocs at that farm are not to be toyed with.
NY Times (free registration required): “Across Africa, juju men…do a brisk business in the soccer season trying to influence the action on the field.”
BBC News: “Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov has announced his intention to officially rename all 12 months of the year in commemoration of the country’s heroes and most potent national symbols.”
There’s only one David Brooks. In “Patio Man and the Sprawl People,” he examines the fast-growing suburbs he calls “Sprinkler Cities.”
“My So-Called Lungs,” (New York Times; free registration required) an audio diary created by Laura Rothenberg, a woman suffering from cystic fibrosis, ran yesterday on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” It’s quite moving; it’s available here.
A classic McSweeney’s yarn: “I Am Michiko Kakutani.” A contemporary McSweeney’s yarn: “This Office is Different.”
According to James B. Twitchell, luxury has been democratized.
Japanese McDonald’s are slashing burger prices, and the Bangkok Skytrain is drowning in debt (they owe 35 billion baht, to be exact).