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Wednesday
Apr142010

EOD Links - 20100414

DateWednesday, April 14, 2010 at 11:35PM

Apparently a cocktail of flu meds can really kill my writing ability.

  • Math as never this much fun in school. (h/t: Ezra Klein)
  • Local education officials should take a closer look at Finland.
  • I might buy "The Spirit Level" for its interesting premise: that inequality is the root of all social problems.
  • Hazel Poa makes a case for voting for the opposition parties.
  • Ezra Klein shows how professional Newt Gingrich is.
  • Men's friendships are different from women's, though I tend to prefer chatting over doing stuff like fishing.
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    Source: Take It to the Limit
    by Steven Strogatz at New York Times on April 4, 2010
    In middle school my friends and I enjoyed chewing on the classic conundrums. What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Easy — they both explode. Philosophy’s trivial when you’re 13.
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    Source: Why do Finland's schools get the best results?
    by Tom Burridge at BBC News on April 7, 2010
    In 2006, Finland's pupils scored the highest average results in science and reading in the whole of the developed world. In the OECD's exams for 15 year-olds, known as PISA, they also came second in maths, beaten only by teenagers in South Korea.
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    Source: The theory of everything
    by John Crace at Guardian Online on March 12, 2010
    Another day, another headline: today obesity, tomorrow teenage pregnancy, the day after crime figures. Social problems operate a revolving-door policy these days. As soon as one goes away, another turns up. For the most part, these problems are regarded as entirely separate from each other.
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    Source: Why should we vote for the opposition?
    by Hazel Poa on April 5, 2010
    If you are feeling helpless over some things you wish you could change, if you want greater power over your own life in your own country, vote for yourself.
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    Source: Will the IRS need 16,000 new agents to enforce health-care reform?
    by Ezra Klein at Washington Post on April 8, 2010
    Not just anyone could pack four falsehoods into 13 words. But Gingrich, now, he's a professional.
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    Source: Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)
    by Jeffrey Zaslow at Wall Street Journal on April 7, 2010
    Every summer for 25 years, Mark Vasu has gotten together for a weekend getaway with old friends from Duke University. The 15 men, who graduated in 1984, gather in the same cabin in Highlands, N.C.

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