22 April 2009

What Ringo Said

Some interesting research findings here, but you still have to chuckle a little at the punchline: 'The consistent message of these studies is that friends make your life better'.

Where would we be without science?

12 April 2009

Dr. Bruni, I Presume


I'm starting to think more and more about the things I'm gonna do when I get back to New York. I always used to talk about the Queens food safaris I was going to undertake, for example, but never got around to it; now I'm gonna get serious (assuming I can afford to eat three months from now...). First on my list, I think, will be the (apparently very reasonably priced) Chinese restaurants in 'Flu-Shing', Queens. Or maybe I should look for Italy in the Bronx. Brooklyn Based has a really useful guide to daytripping in the other, other Chinatown: Sunset Park. Or one can visit Little Mexico--without ever leaving Sunset Park!

01 April 2009

The End of the End of Ideology Thesis

This ought to be interesting to read the next time I'm teaching Daniel Bell or Fukuyama.