Month: August 2014

  • What statins tell us about the mess in evidence based medicine

    What statins tell us about the mess in evidence based medicine shrinkrants: … if there is any uncertainty at all about the risks and benefits of statins – and there is – then we have failed to competently implement the most basic principles of evidence based medicine. Statins are the single most commonly prescribed class…

  • decolonizingmedia: silverjackson: Ferguson-Related Artwork Gets Pulled from Bumbershoot http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/08/29/ferguson-related-artwork-gets-pulled-from-bumbershoot “They don’t want red paint on their floors < we don’t want innocent blood on our streets”

  • Can you recommend some articles/books on social anthropology to read online?

    anthrocentric: Absolute staple: Bourdieu’s “The Forms of Capital” Maus’s The Gift is a staple on economics. He talks about reciprocity, gifting, and obligation. Geertz:Interpretation of Cultures“Thick Description”  Abu Lughod:“Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?””Writing Against Culture” Levi Strauss Foucault:Madness and CivilizationArchaeology of KnowledgePower/Knowledge Thank you for asking this! I will update this as more people suggest…

  • Computer Science Unplugged

    Computer Science Unplugged alexainslie: “Rather than talking about chips and disks and ROM and RAM,” write the authors of an early guide to Computer Science Unplugged, “we want to convey a feeling for the real building blocks of computer science: how to represent information in a computer, how to make computers do things with information,…

  • Building Stories

    comicsworkbook:   Just wanted to write something about Chris Ware’s Building Stories. What an astonishing achievement. I feel as though Ware has assembled a new phrasing style. He’s doing his thing – it’s definitely his voice – yet he is “phrasing” notes and chords in a new way that reminds me of the way, say, Ellington changed over his…

  • Orderly Processions are Over

    Orderly Processions are Over simonterry: Hierarchy likes order. Networks manage complexity. Hierarchy walks in an orderly procession. Networks hustle. Hierarchy wants projects to go from a through to z. Networks experiment across the alphabet. Hierarchy wants a clean status. Networks solve for problems & mess. …

  • karsalfrink: There’s a lesson here. The greatest thing I learned from my formalist training in painting was actually not about painting. It was about the nature of knowledge itself: what it means to define a creative practice as a craft, or as a discipline, or as a set of ideas, and how such a practice…

  • It’s dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to take what’s measurable for what’s important. But he’s also saying something much more radical, even subversive: Some things that can be measured shouldn’t be. “Taking Measurement’s Measure” – Nick Carr (via shoutsandmumbles)

  • The End of Gamers

    dangolding: The last few weeks in videogame culture have seen a level of combativeness more marked and bitter than any beforehand.  First, a developer—a woman who makes games who has had so much piled on to her that I don’t want to perpetuate things by naming her—was the target of a harassment campaign that attacked…