Thing Finder

Cam across this quotation. It is attributed to Mahatma Gandhi but I have not been able to find the actual source. Your beliefs become your...

From The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory from The Physics arXiv Blog. While the news is interesting and important, if somewhat esoteric...

From Unintended Consequences by Edward Conard. Science judges hypotheses, not by what they explain, but by what they fail to explain. When...

From A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Tuchman, Barbara, Page xviii. Keeping perspective: Disaster is rarely as pervasive ...

Here's a neat concept out of the fincial services industry that might have application in culture and reading. From Too Central to Fail...

From the American Library Association, the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books 2000-2009 . You can see all the issues here: questions of age-...

I ran a Google Ngram on four of the major US children's books awards, the grandaddies, Newberry and Caldecott as well as newer awards, C...

This article, Teachers on the Defensive by Frank Bruni, prompted a train of thought regarding the importance of feedback. While the histor...

From The Coming Oil Boom by Chrystia Freeland. She discusses the emerging realization that there will be a sea change in the global energy...

From Class Origin and Elite Position of Men in Business Firms in Sweden, 1993–2007: The Importance of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Pers...