Ben Guest’s Blog

Looking at America

2008-01-01T03:17:02Z

Last links of 2007: Wow. Devastating NYT editorial that sums up America in the Bush years. This is us. This is who we are... At the beginning of the War in Iraq, columnist Christopher Hitchens challenged young people to put their ideals forwa...

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Abstinence, Movie Idea, and Beating the Market

2007-12-28T20:46:50Z

Cartoon that nicely sums up the flaw in abstinence-only education. Adam Corolla's Movie Idea: Grand Theft Submarine. Another great piece by Michael Lewis about Blaine Lourdes, a stock-broker who sold his soul. And then got it back. And beat th...

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Links o' the Week

2007-12-23T20:11:13Z

A nice photo of the winter solstice. A well-written, in-depth, Washington Post article (part of a series on the DC public schools) that examines an inner-city high school, and the myriad of challenges faced by the teachers, in particular Frederic...

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1.8 Billion

2007-12-20T21:39:55Z

1,800,000,000. That is the amount of money generated each year by Division One college football players. 0. That is the amount of money college football players are paid. 1. That is the percent of college football players who will go on to pl...

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Cash Incentives and Raising a Genius

2007-12-16T01:54:38Z

Two more interesting articles... The first is a Boston Globe Magazine piece about how to raise a genius child. It starts with a couple, the Andersons, and their 34 month year old daughter: While other moms-to-be were dog-earing their copies of ...

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College Football, Revenue, Stanley Kaplan, and Consumer Reports

2007-12-15T22:01:04Z

What do all of those have in common? They are all topics of interesting articles that I have read in the last few days. Should college football players be paid? That is the question asked by Michael Lewis in his NYT piece (and a question that i...

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How Black Children View White Children...

2007-12-11T14:33:00Z

I've linked to this short film by Kiri Davis in the past. Kiri is a teenage filmmaker who read about an experiment done in the sixties asking black children to play with a white doll and a black doll, and then identify which one they liked better...

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IQ and Race

2007-12-11T00:02:43Z

I've read two good articles recently. The first is Malcolm Gladwell's piece on IQ and race. This fits in nicely with the debate I've been having about talent, and whether people are born with certain gifts (more thoughts on that debate, and on G...

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Boston Celtics-Game Nineteen

2007-12-09T02:04:53Z

12/8/07 At Chicago 16-2 First Quarter: Second game of a back to back. Chicago, despite their awful record, is dangerous because of their rebounding ability. As a former coach, I've always felt that rebounding is the most important component of...

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Throwback

2007-12-08T09:34:02Z

Those Celtic throwback unis are nice...

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