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“Women’s Voice Pitch Changes Depending on Their Attraction To a Man”

Posted on June 18, 2011June 17, 2011 by Craig Newmark

From Psychology Today: “If a woman speaks to you in the extraordinarily rare whistle register (as per Minnie Riperton’s: Loving You, or as most recently associated with Mariah Carey), she is utterly in love with you!” Link via Gawker.

“Presenting The Most Expensive Home For Sale In Every State”

Posted on June 18, 2011June 17, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Cool little piece. 50th is North Dakota, where $1.3 million buys a 4 BR, 4 bath, 9400 sq. ft. ranch on 15 acres of land. #1 is California, where $150 million buys you a: big house–the Aaron and Candy Spelling house–on 4.7 acres of “rare, flat land in Holmby Hills”. UPDATE: the $150 million home has […]

“50 Best Trash Talk Moments in Sports”

Posted on June 18, 2011June 17, 2011 by Craig Newmark

With: video, natch. Also see “No, YOU’RE Ugly: The Best Moments In Trash Talking“.: Some excellent examples here; I’m partial to “The mailman doesn’t deliver on Sundays.” (Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.)

Unintentional humor in the New York Times

Posted on June 12, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

An article in the Times reviews some of the great economic news about India. In this city that barely existed two decades ago, there are 26 shopping malls, seven golf courses and luxury shops selling Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs shimmer in automobile showrooms. Apartment towers are sprouting like concrete weeds, and a […]

Joe Posnanski says goodbye to Kansas City

Posted on June 12, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Sweet and sad.

“It’s not just the TSA”

Posted on June 12, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

More depressing news on the state of personal liberty in the USA. “Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security ‘revenge’ nightmare“. Elderly passengers on board a luxury cruise have criticised US immigration officials after they endured a seven-hour security check. Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.

Two illustrations of why our government is in trouble

Posted on June 11, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

They seem to have trouble counting. (But ya gotta understand: the numbers are just so very, very big, anybody would have trouble. Not!) How “massively” was Goldman short the mortgage market? The [Senate] report unequivocally states that in 2007, Goldman: “reported net revenues of $11.6 billion, of which $3.7 billion was generated by the structured products […]

“Mariano Rivera: The Greatest Pitcher Of The Last 30 Years”

Posted on June 11, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Gets no argument from me. The 0.71 ERA in 139.2 IP in the postseason ought to be, alone, enough.

“Crazy U”

Posted on June 11, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

More from Andrew Ferguson’s: Crazy U. Here are another two choice bits: We suffer from a built-in confusion of means and ends. We want college (the means) to produce results (the ends) that it wasn’t built for. With its ample time for leisure, its relatively light workload, its often leafy setting, its discursive methods of instruction, […]

What to do about Medicare: the heart of the controversy

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Here’s Michael Hiltzik, columnist for the Los Angeles Times: To be charitable, the free-market rationale for sticking enrollees with more of the bill is that as consumers with “skin in the game” they’ll be more discriminating about the services and treatments they demand, thus holding down costs. Unfortunately, the consumer-driven model has been widely discredited: […]

“How Sustainable Is Groupon’s Business Model?”

Posted on June 5, 2011June 4, 2011 by Craig Newmark

According to Wharton marketing professor David Reibstein, not very.

“”The 25 Most Unbreakable Streaks in Sports”

Posted on June 5, 2011June 7, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Joe D. is first, of course, but the others are quite: interesting. Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.

“20 Impossible Interview Questions From Facebook, Goldman And Citigroup”

Posted on June 4, 2011June 4, 2011 by Craig Newmark

Good thing I’m not looking for a job at these places. Samples: Citigroup: “What’s your strategy at table tennis?” Towers Watson: “Estimate how many planes there are in the sky.” Jane Street Capital: “What is the smallest number divisible by 225 that consists of all 1s and 0s?”

The news from Cali isn’t getting any better

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Craig Newmark

“Riverside’s Hillcrest High: What if they built a school and nobody got to go?” A $105 million high school–yes,: $105 million–will be unused for at least one year. Walter Russell Mead plays taps. (And proposes a solution I haven’t seen before–split the state up into five parts. Interesting.) And here’s one new, interesting reason for Cali’s […]

“The 2011 Fiscal Summit”

Posted on June 4, 2011June 4, 2011 by Craig Newmark

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation invited six organizations to detail what actions the U.S. government should take to restore fiscal soundness. Here are the results.: I vote for the Heritage plan. Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.