Closing a few tabs.
* Scientific American considers the cognitive advantages of depression.
* Marginal Revolution has a nature/nuture post on educational outcomes in adoptees.
* Dark Stores of the American recession. More at MeFi, including the British counterpart.
* The Beatles, remastered in mono. Reviews are positive.
* ...last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she turned over all the decisions about which books to read to the students in her seventh- and eighth-grade English classes at Jonesboro Middle School in this south Atlanta suburb.
Among their choices: James Patterson‘s adrenaline-fueled “Maximum Ride” books, plenty of young-adult chick-lit novels and even the “Captain Underpants” series of comic-book-style novels. You had me until "Captain Underpants." (via Vu)
* Smells of New York.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
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