... that you're not a turkey.

Before this morning I might have read today’s BBC piece about Aids in Africa and given a world-weary sigh for those poor people. But this morning, via the Freakonomics blog, I read Emily Oster's piece in the December Esquire magazine: Three Things You Don't Know About Aids In Africa.

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A post over on Freakonomics let me discover Science Hobbyist on Traffic Jams -- much of which I already knew, but the experiments he describes are just wonderful. I often try the “evaporate jam” thing myself, by idling along as slowly as I can in traffic; the problem is that Italians, like natur...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.7 This week: 87.9
Tuesday 21 November: Oh, the exquisite irony of it, part II; to be on a plateau and to have discovered Jim Lahey’s recipe for no-knead bread. Ah well, the novelty will wear off soon, I hope. Except that I have a second sourdough loaf bubbling away now,...

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European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs.

"The many rules strip us of the most important thing: the ability to be considerate. We're losing our capacity for socially responsible behavior," says Dutch traffic guru Hans Monderman, one of the project's co-founders. "The greater the number of pr...

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