Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2766
July 11, 2010
Primate Made Me Do It
Christopher Ryan finds it amazing how the media spins reports of chimp warfare:
From a psychological perspective, it's tempting to conclude that
media frenzy that predictably breaks out every time scientists
evidence of chimpanzee warfare is due to an unconscious desire to deflect
The First Window View
A reader writes:
A random thought, but your View From Your Window series honors what is arguably the first photograph ever taken: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's "View from the Window at Le Gras," in 1826.
Nicéphore Niépce - Photograph - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - Operating Systems - X11
This Argument Is An Illusion
Eben Harrell rounds up recent research on unconscious thought:
Custers and Bargh acknowledge that their research undermines afundamental principle used to promote human exceptionalism — indeed,Bargh has in the past argued that his work undermines the existence offree will. But Custers also points out that his conclusions are notnew: people have long sensed that they are influenced by forces beyondtheir immediate recognition — be it Greek gods or Freud's unruly id.What's more, the unconscious...
July 10, 2010
How To Create Jobs: Be Like China?
Andy Grove prescribes a manufacturing revival. Tyler Cowen has a lot of questions, Adam Ozimek is damning, and Reihan piles on:
Governments have historically done a very poor job of anticipating future job growth. Just as manufacturing employment has decreased, one can easily imagine the number of lawyers decreasing as new technologies emerge. At the same time, plumbers and nurses and other workers with skills that machines can't easily replicate might find their wages, and their public...
Mental Health Break
Brett Domino is back to bring you a mashup of Top 40 hits featured in the latest (and 75th) Now That's What I Call Music!:
Australia - Directories - Social media - Game seven - National Basketball Association
What American Parents Get Right, Ctd
A reader writes:
Steinglass does make a shrewd point, but it's not entirely new, and there are some interesting nuances to consider. The first is that the Western European countries with higher proportions of working women (Finland, Norway, Denmark) also tend to have higher birthrates. Although the high-birthrate countries may be less repressive and more egalitarian, another more basic consideration is that they provide much better services to parents, thus reducing the cost - emotional...
The Interview
A newly published piece by Mark Twain:
No one likes to be interviewed, and yet no one likes to say no
interviewers are courteous and gentle-mannered, even when they come
destroy.I must not be understood to mean that they ever comeconsciously to destroy or are aware afterward that they have destroyed;no, I think their attitude is more that of the cyclone, which comeswith the gracious purpose of cooling off a sweltering village, and isnot aware, afterward, that it has done that village...
The View From Your Window
Tate City, Georgia, 11 am
Georgia - United States - Damon Evans - Driving under the influence - Associated Press
Hitchens And Larkin
In the best review I've read so far of Hitch-22 - which I found very hard to put down - is this appreciation by Michael Weiss. Weiss sees consistencies where others less intelligent see contradictions. This passage on Larkin is spot-on:
So far from being 'quintessentially English,' Larkin was a wry and melancholy observer of postwar English anxieties and insecurities. Resentful of how his generation had been made to foot a historic bill that in low moments could seem unworthy of the cost...
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