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Mini Review: Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir
Recently, a friend gave me a copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir. As Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is one my favourite books, I eargerly dug into A Dead Man’s Memoir. It is a different ...
Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?
Via Kottke (via @atenni): An economic paper from Helsinki University on the relationship between GDP and – ahem – “organ” size: The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped relationship with ...
The Global Elite and the American Worker
The Jan/Feb issue of The Atlantic features an article by Chrystia Freeland, where she writes about “The Rise of the New Global Elite.” Freeland outlines how they differ from past American robber barons and their relationship with ...
Adventures in Rhetoric
I’m venturing in to an experiment in discipline and perhaps torture. I’ve ventured to follow a UC Berkeley Rhetoric 10 class. Specifically, it is a class taught by Daniel Coffeen from Spring 2008. Rhetoric is ...
Americana Culturama: Red Dawn and the Reagan Era
Americana Red Dawn and the Reagan Era View more presentations from danielriveong. A few months ago, my friends held an “unconference” for our friends to learn more about the US Pop-Culture in the 80s and ...