Saturday Reading, 8 March 2008
08 March 2008 in Defence, Human Nature, Humour, Politics by Stilgherrian | 1 comment
I think I might make this a regular feature? Should I just use some automated social bookmarking tool to generate the page?
- Over at New Matilda, Ben Eltham has written a fine summary of The Super Seasprites Saga. He links to an explanation of the sunk cost fallacy which probably contributed to this monumental fuck-up.
- Laurel Papworth’s piece 2020 Summit: Objective Journalists vs Passionate Blogging, which I’m planning to respond to at length some time this weekend.
- A piece from The New Yorker, Scents and Sensibility: What the nose knows, which ponders, amongst other things, why one molecule smells of spearmint when its exact mirror image smells of caraway. (Hat-tip to 3 Quarks Daily.)
- And for a change of pace, try the selection of First Dog on the Moon cartoons which were published in Crikey through January and February.
Four pieces feels about right for today.
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Tags: australia 2020, ben eltham, chemistry, crikey, first dog on the moon, journalism, laurel papworth, smell, social media, sunk cost, super seapsrite
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Laurel Papworth on 08 March 2008 at 11:05 am
apparently it’s drivel. My bit anyway. See if you can make sense of it all to the masses
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