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  1. A thoughtful response from an evangelical who attended n+1's evangelicalism panel last night: http://bit.ly/81Qpls
  2. Animated history of a NYC block, 1795-1991: http://bit.ly/1Kv6vo. via http://bit.ly/8xVEKv
  3. Blue-light spiral UFO over Norway! http://bit.ly/5IFxhB Probably an out-of-control Russian rocket leaking fuel: http://bit.ly/8Hvncv
  4. I'm moderating n+1's panel on evangelicalism & intellectuals, Tues. 8pm, New School, feat. Gladwell, Smallwood, & Wood. http://bit.ly/N6V7x
  5. @jpkang Thanks!
  6. @jpkang In any case, you're right that there's nuance and room for debate that eluded my light journalistic treatment!
  7. @jpkang In "Muse Learns to Write," Havelock says the Greek breakthrough is the full distinction of consonants from vowels, not vowels per se
  8. @jpkang In "Proust & Squid," Wolf calls Ugaritic an abjad w/ "consonant signs that distinguished adjacent vowels," but says there's debate
  9. @alexanderchee Actually the credit was easy but not cheap. A great analysis of usury's return (subscr. reqd): http://bit.ly/1353Z7
  10. "Amour propre and self-knowledge are not the same thing." Scott McLemee takes Cornel West to the woodshed: http://bit.ly/6yGGUp
  11. RT @thenewschool: Evangelicalism & the Contemporary Intellectual w Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, Christine Smallwood, Caleb Crain. Dec 8 ...
  12. On the other hand: The case for camel case, at least in Gaelic and programming languages: http://michael-hartford.com/blog/?p=746
  13. Marx thought they were about capitalism. Productivity, says Christine: http://bit.ly/7Tf7b8 (and I thought they were about outsourcing)
  14. I attack camel case. Part 2, the footnotes: http://bit.ly/74oyt9
  15. I attack camel case. Part 1, the rant: http://bit.ly/65tFla
  16. The View from our window http://bit.ly/7XhBPu
  17. "It must feel like... having a stranger dress you before you leave your house." Peter Mendelsund on book-cover design: http://bit.ly/75FFV8
  18. "Best Valediction, Marcel Proust: 'I was your truly sincere friend.'" Charles Petersen on the art of letters: http://bit.ly/Xjrb2
  19. Narrative histories can be popular. Analytic ones can't be, but pop history depends on what they discover. Gordon Wood, http://bit.ly/1zbC77
  20. "After all those disappointments you also have to die." Elaine Blair on Roth's "Humbling": http://bit.ly/3wA1Ts