September 22, 2009
Senate Finance Committee Mark-up
Watch it live on C-SPAN.
Book Blogging: National Book Festival, Sept. 26
Via The Washington Post, a guide to this Saturday’s readings and signings. For years I’d hoped to see John Irving — here’s my shot!
Here is the Library of Congress’s official Book Fest page and a link to the press release for the event. Wonderfully, everything is free, except for the concessions, which are rarely worth the wait anyway.
(Photo Credit: 2009 Festival Artist Charles Santore.)
September 18, 2009
Science Friday: Illuminating Squid
Ooh, ooh — a new SciFri feature: The Creature Cast (via Dunn Lab at Brown University).
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September 17, 2009
Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
That catchy headline is from an article I linked to yesterday (Is Happiness Catching?). (I guess there are two headlines for the article!)
Anyway, article author Clive Thompson talks (below and here) with WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer show about the story behind the story.
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The Baucus (D-Takes Forever Land) Plan
Read it and weep (as so many people are). Apparently it takes nine months to write an 18-page press release. That’s two pages per month — not bad for guv’ment work.