1. Fifty outstanding translations, via Bookslut.
2. The cost of being Batman, via www.geekpress.com
3. More on the file-sharing controversy
4. The new "Big Mac" index, so to speak
5. An economic theory of excess defensiveness
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What about the http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/07/21/080721crci_cinema_denby/?yrail>cost of being Joker?
He forgot geniuses. You need the probability of being smart enough to get into a top 10 university as well. Batman is really smart, too.
But, what is the probability the person who has the resources to become Batman becomes Batman?
Will Batman arrive when the population reaches 13.2 billion?
“With examples like this, it makes me wonder why more people aren’t very hesitant about apparent consensuses on global warming before there’s been adequate time for dissenting views to emerge.”
What’s the connection here? Are you suggesting that global-warming scientists are relying on confidential data sets that they aren’t disclosing to all the anti-global-warming scientists? So once the real numbers on global temperature come out, I guess we’ll realize that global warming was all a hoax? What a crock.
Do you even pause before you write, or is it just like: “ah, example of scientists making a mistake — I can use this as evidence that global warming must be false?”
Life and fate is not a complete translation as many american translations.They really believe they know bether than the author. The translation of Menander in penguin must be the worst ever .
You can buy and gain very cheap mesos.
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