From the New Yorker:

Getting Sherlock Holmes Right Onscreen

Posted by Michael Sragow

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/06/getting-sherlock-holmes-right-on-screen.html#ixzz1yMcHHuJD

" The BBC series, a string of three ninety-minute films per season, achieves in modern dress what the Ritchie film attempts in fancy Edwardian costume."

--> I think he means Victorian costume.

" The Mind Palace.” In a way, half the series is set in Holmes’s mind palace... “the Heart Palace.”

--> I don't get that as the "Mind Palace" is a reference the "method of loci" and saying that its set in Holmes's mind palace may be a play on words, but does not make sense. While the comment about the “the Heart Palace,” is again a play on words but meaningless.    

Clemens’s No Hitter

Editorial of The New York Sun | June 19, 2012

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/clemons-no-hitter/87870/

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A few interesting things

This whole behavioral economics things is in the new a lot, the first article made an impact.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-perfected-self/8970/

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/the-freakonomics-economist-discovered-the-right-way-to-bribe-students/258672/

Interesting article that is critical of TED talks.
http://www.downloadtheuniverse.com/dtu/2012/06/the-demise-of-guys-why-boys-are-struggling-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-by-philip-zimbardo-and-nikita-duncan-ted-books-ki.html

Interesting article about Group Selection

http://edge.org/conversation/the-false-allure-of-group-selection

  

Article claiming to see The End of the Jewish Left

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/99711/the-end-of-the-jewish-left




Great article about how science becomes news (that is very different from the science)
http://www.american.com/archive/2012/may/science-vs-pr

this is an interesting article about the European crises (wsj needs subscription)

The Decline of Democracy

The Amazon Effect

Steve Wasserman

May 29, 2012   |    This article appeared in the June 18, 2012 edition of The Nation.

http://www.thenation.com/article/168125/amazon-effect#

Great Maalot Classifieds post

Anyone selling a desk? ()

I haven't done any work inmonths and I blame it solely on not having a desk on which to do it. If anyone can extricate me from my deep misery, I'd be willing to compensate you commensurate with the desk's value and the scent of your desperation. Thanks

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/lakewood-girls-school-under-attack-for-controversial-letter-on-modesty/2012/06/14/

Lakewood Girls School under Attack for Controversial Letter on Modesty
By: Michael Orbach

http://thelakewoodview.com/reader-submitted-from-bnos-yaakov/

The problem, of course, is that the Shomer Emunim and their like (and break-offs such as the various toldos, etc) practice a version of Yiddishkeit that constantly is trying to “go back” to something that never was and rightfully so never was.  One cannot “take everything to its rightfully conclusion” as they do, as then you are left with something that may appear to be Yiddishkeit and claim to be the “best Yiddishkeit” but is defiantly not Jewish at all; as we see (and our hearts cry) in this case.