Posts By Author » Craig Newmark
Detention slips
4 Nov 2012 
6:31 am
Some of what our teachers have to put up with.
“. . . He then punched a boy in the mouth and yelled ‘Hammer of Justice.’”
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“Top-Selling Candy From Around the World”
4 Nov 2012 6:20 am
Except for the rice, the pumpkin, and the ginger ones, pretty similar to what we have here.
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“The 10 Trends That Are Changing The Face Of The NFL As We Know It”
3 Nov 2012 6:29 am
One of them is “The no huddle is about to take over the league.”
We’ll see.
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“How does one stop one’s hair pouffing up?”
3 Nov 2012 6:11 am
Kate Middleton’s hair secrets.
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“The Truth About McDonald’s Burgers That Don’t Rot”
28 Oct 2012 6:36 am
Another mass-media story blown up.
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“The 10 Most Damaging Chick Flicks Ever Made”
28 Oct 2012 6:14 am
I object to Clueless being included. But the rest seem fine.
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“Three Things Colleges Don’t Want Us to Know”
27 Oct 2012 6:23 am
Richard Vedder turns over a few of higher education’s rocks. What’s underneath is pretty ugly.
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“The Worst Car Colors Ever Offered”
27 Oct 2012 6:12 am
They missed one: I had a car once that was “rose”. Ugly as heck. But cheaper than comparable cars.
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“Software solves burglary while Raleigh couple vacations in Aruba”
21 Oct 2012 6:21 am
Very cool.
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“Social Security ‘Never Added a Dime to the Deficit’ Really?”
21 Oct 2012 6:03 am
Heck no. Andrew Biggs explains.
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“What This British Soldier Did When Ambushed And Outnumbered Was Truly Amazing”
20 Oct 2012 6:39 am
“Fix bayonets.”
Echoes Col. Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine on Little Round Top.
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“40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes”
20 Oct 2012 6:07 am
“Failure is not an option,” “This is your time,” “They’ll never take our freedom!” and more.
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“Paddled”
14 Oct 2012 6:35 am
Christopher Beam in GQ:
On my first day at Shichahai Sports School, the elite athletic academy in Beijing, Coach Chang introduces me to his ping-pong class. “We have a new American student,” he says, peering out from behind the prescription sunglasses he wears indoors. As all eyes turn toward me, I feel a rush of nerves. It’s like day one of kindergarten again, only this time I have chest hair. “He claims he’s been playing for more than ten years,” Chang goes on, “but from what I’ve seen, it looks more …
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“How To Make A McDonald’s Big Mac In Your Own Kitchen”
14 Oct 2012 6:14 am
I’m not sure why you’d want to, but to each his own.
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“Future Humans Will All Look Brazilian, Researcher Says”
13 Oct 2012 6:33 am
Positive development? You decide.
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“‘Gangnam Style’ Arrives at Penn”
13 Oct 2012 6:10 am
Glad to see Penn students are keeping busy.
(Cornell’s, too.)
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“The Sexiest, Coolest, Most EPIC Bus Commercial Ever”
7 Oct 2012 6:43 am
“I know ‘epic’ is overused on the Internet. But we need a new, epic-er word to do thisspot justice.”
I tend to agree.
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Answering another one of the world’s most important questions
7 Oct 2012 6:12 am
Why Do So Many Countries End in “-stan”?
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Bill Murray recently turned 62
6 Oct 2012 6:31 am
Here’s a nice token of our appreciation: “62 big quotes from the King’s legendary career.”
Also, “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Bill Murray“.
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“Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They’re Absolutely Enormous”
30 Sep 2012 6:47 am
The story of another scientist who was laughed at but whose truth eventually won.
Long before the discovery of the scablands, geologists dismissed the role of catastrophic floods in interpreting European geology. . . .
[J. Harlen] Bretz was a classic field geologist and a controversial figure throughout his career. In 1925 he presented the story of the region’s giant floods, seeing what others at first could not—and then would not—see. He spent his lifetime piecing together the story of how a raging wall of water hundreds of feet high roared across …
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