January 2011
19 posts
College is one of America's worst investments →
youngmanhattanite:
utnereader:
theweekmagazine:
At least that’s what a new study suggests. The study found that nearly half of students make “no significant gains in learning” in their first two years on campus, and that they spend 50 percent less time studying than their 1970s and 1980s counterparts.
This is “depressing,” but hardly “shocking,” says Matt Kiebus in Death + Taxes. Anyone...
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde
[ironically quoted] (via alanajoy)
Define Tumblr.
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
Wonderful. (via therealkatiewest)
Click me. You will like it, I promise. →
What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on... →
boballthetime:
(Images from Wikimedia Commons)
Waiting for . . . Waiting for Godot and Lord of the Flies, The Doors of Perception, Rear Window, Seven Samurai, Creature from the Black Lagoon, the first issues of Sports Illustrated, Horton Hears a Who! . . . . [1]
Current US law extends copyright protections for 70 years from the date of the author’s death. (Corporate “works-for-hire” are...
