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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

EZ Reads, 2/25/09

The last 36 hours or so of reading were really good, reminding me what I enjoy about this whole blogging thing... so here are a few of the pieces I enjoyed:
  • Taking off on yesterday's post by Bad4 on how dating broadens your mind, Bas~Melech compares dating to blogging in figuring out which broadens your mind best.
  • YD laments a high school student's disgust over losing out lunchtime to a video about the Mercaz HaRav massacre.
  • A fantastic piece by R' Yonasan Goldson on BeyondBT noting how large scale division leads to an increase in localized homogeneous groups. It's quite a fascinating analysis with a very good message.
  • A beautiful and heart-warming post by NMF#7 about soldiers and babies.
  • A Soldier's Mother has another beautiful post on how the Israeli army rewards its' soldiers' hard work with a thank you... and how the soldiers thank God.
  • An interesting study concludes hand-motions help people learn math better. It mentions Italians, but I'd add Jews into that mix. On a separate note, I can't believe people get paid to research things I could show them in my living room.
  • Honestly Frum is incensed that after years of not only decrying the internet, but rejecting ads that included web addresses, Hamodia started a website and then justified it by noting it's a necessity of our time. I'm less troubled by the website (which I think is a positive sign of their joining the 21st century) and more troubled that the same logic which was rejected until now is suddenly accepted when convenient.
  • R' Gil Student at Hirhurim questions the idea of thanking the anti-religious for forcing religion to understand itself better, as per a recent WSJ piece.
  • SoccerDad notes that Shai Agassi is talking to 19 companies in Israel to help push electric cars in the country from a nice idea to reality. Awesome.
  • Freakonomics notes a site that lets you quantify Obama's SOTU address, like how he used "crisis" 11 times, while Hoover did 4 times during the Great Depression.
  • Though it's certainly not a perfect comparison, Basketball-Reference calculates that if Lebron were to play at the pace Oscar Robertson did in 1962 he'd be averaging 41/10/10. Sick. (Hat Tip: David Linn)
  • Win some Oh Nuts! stuff at ParshaBlog.
Enjoy!

6 comments:

  1. Hey, is that the David Lin from KPMG?

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  2. [rubs eyes]
    Even as only a preface to another post... I'm there!!

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  3. Did you see DB's post on twitter (http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2009/02/dovbear-or-why-im-twittering-or.html)
    I think it sums up what I was trying to say the other day.

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  4. Bad4 - Imagine if you'd post instead of repost more! :)

    Shimon - I understand its uses, but I still hate the idea.

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  5. Wow, I'm deemed worthy! Thanks for linking!

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