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		<title>Humanities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martha Nussbaum has a new book on the role of humanities, and a piece in the TLS to defend her point about the Socratic method and teaching in LACs. Several chapters of the UNESCO World Social Science Report, also published this year, echo her argument (Jon Elster, for instance, argues that social science is naturally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/29/humanities/</link>
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		<title>Bronson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the end of my personal Refn cinematographic saga, which started with Vikings and drugs (rather than Vikings on drugs). Bronson is the violent life of Charles Bronson, a real British prisoner who has punched everything in the world with a nose, and more. Magic? You just pissed on a gipsy in the middle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/28/bronson/</link>
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		<title>Flickr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the films cited here are also featured in the “Snapshots” set hosted on my Flickr account. The set is viewable only by Flickr friends, but RSS feeds should display the pictures correctly. The light yellow link under Flickr inserts should disappear if I can get the CSS3 child combinator to function properly. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/27/flickr/</link>
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		<title>Half</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is obviously one of the best stats jokes I have ever read, and the fact that it is also a real story makes it just hilarious: One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number of patients [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/26/half/</link>
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		<title>STS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay by Steven Shapin about science has immediate relevance to many disciplines, and to STS specifically, as it has come under more criticism than expected in the last months.]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/25/sts/</link>
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		<title>Pusher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Winding Refn&#8217;s Pusher trilogy is about heroin, murder, and the life of humans into crime and drugs. It is dark, unwelcoming, and violent. The following is from Pusher 3. Three drug dealers, one acting as an interpret, solving a problem and working through a transaction as the ones studied by Diego Gambetta: - What&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/24/pusher/</link>
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		<title>Baroness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is not only good at presenting new books, it also does a nice job at presenting music bands, like Baroness, which was recommended to me by Facebook on grounds of similarity with Isis (and they are indeed similar in their progressive metal style, so both thumbs up for Facebook here, even though Isis is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/23/baroness/</link>
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		<title>Debates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economics journals are doing a nice job at publishing lively and important discussions at the moment: James Heckman (Nobel 2000) is writing in the JEL to defend the LATE method he co-authored in the early 2000s. I remember he was involved in a strange publishing brawl some years ago. Angus Deaton, who started expressing skepticism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/22/debates/</link>
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		<title>Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most posts on this blog are scheduled in advance, with a few exceptions when I want to react to something. The scheduling is of one per day, as to maintain the illusion that I blog regularly and so to balance the quantity of information that appears in everyone&#8217;s newsfeed. Some stuff ends up getting posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/21/publishing/</link>
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		<title>Belleville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like living in Belleville, which is puzzling for many of my friends. This neighbourhood does not leave you alone: you have to live with it. Belleville is not exactly quiet, if you remember its Chinese riots (now in video and pictures). &#8220;Les pieds sur terre&#8220;, one of France Culture&#8217;s best radio shows, broadcasted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phnk.com/2010/07/20/belleville/</link>
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