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Bundling

At lunch today with some colleagues, my cellphone rang and I recognized the number of a doctor I ceased going to a couple of years…

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Consciousness

Something paradoxical occurred to me. Consciousness works best in the service of unconsciousness. What I mean is that if you play football, tennis, the piano,…

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Good bad songs

The taxi driver the other day was tuned to a station playing Maggie May from the Seventies. When I came home I downloaded it from…

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The perfect cage

Yesterday morning when I was having lunch I opened the refrigerator door and a moth that had somehow managed to get inside began flying furiously…

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A Good Model

Everyone always wants to know what makes a good model. One way to think about it is that a good model takes some already valid…

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AlphaSmart

No, not that kind of alpha. I was looking for a very light laptop so that you could do some writing anywhere. I have a…

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Masculin Feminin

This weekend I flipped through the Personals in the New York Review of Books. They’ve always been good for entertainment, with very literately phrased ads…

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Coca-Cola

  A question about Southern France: is it my imagination, or does the Coca Cola there taste better than in NYC, and, if it does,…

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Man-machine

When I was looking at a really efficient rider in the Tour de France, not sprinting but simply powering along during the main part of…

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Goal vs. Gaol

I recently had some students cheat in a course I teach. What irritated me was that they seemed to regard cheating as a sort of…

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Jack Black

About a year or two ago I sat on an airplane coming back from London and ended up watching ‘School of Rock,’ without any preconceptions,…

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Intuition

I was looking at blogs on google and I found one that referrred to an article I once wrote on how to get a job…

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