Linkdump for March 7th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
An editorial in the New York Times by Samuel D. Waksal. There are some interesting ideas in there, some of which I even agree with. There is something very compelling about saying (w/r/t/ healthcare) "we should only pay when we get results". But it's also a slippery slope. And seeing the full disclosure there about his time served for insider trading… well, we're not far off when we think "hey some of those suggestions seem exclusionary and anti-competitive…"
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In Underwire at Wired.com:
I had workshop leaders who just out-and-out said, ‘Please do not turn science fiction in to this workshop,’” he says. “That was discouraging, obviously. If I had had more courage or integrity I might have stood up to it more than I did.
Also: kind of interesting to see a author that you have your own fan crush on gushing about his own fan crushes.
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At Underwire (at Wired.com) — I'd love to read this bad boy. Even if only because Robert Oppenheimer's apocryphal twin brother's name is Joseph.
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China Miéville on Apocalyptic London (at NYTimes.com)
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Journalism is a daily process of painting an ever truer picture of the world.
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