NYT
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Katherine Harris is A Complete Loon
And the NYT goes to some lengths to document that today: Senate Contender in Florida Presses On She is especially animated when the topic turns to animals, including the guide dog she plans to train starting in November. She will care for the dog for 18 months, spending nearly all her waking hours with it.…
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Little People and Their Tools
It’s been a great week for Science in the NYT. My favorite science writer, John Noble Wilford, and his colleagues have been filing tons of reports. Today was a look at the debate over the little people of the Indonesian island of Flores, who may or may not be a different species than home sapiens.…
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Male Fear and Monkey Cuckolding: “Two Splits Between Human and Chimp Lines Suggested” (NYT)
There’s an amazing story in the NYT this morning about new evidence in molecular biology supporting the idea that there was a hybrid species that rose after the split between chimp and human lineages. The idea is that females of this hybrid species (which eventually led to humans) mated with males from the chimp world…
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How I Use: NYT Anonymity Project
UPDATE, January 16, 2009: This post is good for finding out *why* I’m doing the NYT Anonymity Project, but it has the wrong methodology. See the NYT Anonymity Feed post for current method and NYT Anonymity Feed Yahoo! Pipe (archive.org link) for current relevant excerpts from and links to articles that have information from an…
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Sublime 639-Year Performance and the Illusion of Maestroism
I love this recent story in the NYT: “John Cage’s Long Music Composition in Germany Changes a Note“, which explains the unfolding of a work by John Cage that challenges a dominant notion we have in art– that the maestro is paramount. We idolize the sole person corralling an orchestra, waving them into submission, standing…