newyorker.com - 12/8/2008
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On the day of the big football game between the University of Missouri Tigers and the Cowboys of Oklahoma State, a football scout named Dan Shonka sat in his hotel, in Columbia, Missouri, with a portable DVD player. Shonka has worked for three National Football League teams. Before that, ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/9/2008
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I’ve really been taken aback by a lot
of the hostile response to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers that...
I’ve read. This isn’t a book without flaws. But the flaws in the book are flaws that have long been present in ...
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The Malcolm Gladwell Backlash
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Oliver Willis —
* Malcolm Gladwell: Most Likely to Succeed
* In Factory Sit-In, an Anger Spread Wide
Everything old is new again.
* Out of Sight voted sexiest film of all time
I agree. The scene with Clooney and Lopez in the trunk of a car has more heat than a thousand “sex” scenes. (buy it here)
* How To Read an American Newspaper
* FIFTY YEARS OF POPULAR SONGS CONDENSED INTO SINGLE SENTENCES.
* Goal!
* Pamela Anderson is FAIL
* Pinup shot with more airbrushing than ...
Education as Business
The Moderate Voice —
... — tackles the challenge of identifying good teachers. (Don’t be fooled by the first part of the article, where Gladwell focuses on football and quarterbacks; it’s only a set up for the rest of the article.) ...
The Obama Effect
Balloon Juice —
... brings a mix of confidence, judgment, political skill, patience and time management. Carnegie Mellon, one of my degree institutions, struggles with fundraising because it graduates the bright guys in business (analysts and CFOs) whereas Harvard, which graduates the dim but politically savvy players who become CEO, has an endowment that would drown Scrooge McDuck. The NFL still screens quarterbacks for IQ even though some of the greatest arms in history are dumb as a post*. ...
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