etcetera

RT @jaketapper: .@ScottBrownMA…

Karthik — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:35:29 +0000

RT @jaketapper: .@ScottBrownMA jokes Santorum getting Secret Service is the first time he’s ever used protection > http://t.co/XvAGmgks

RT @bookbench: Remembering a g…

Karthik — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:50:21 +0000

RT @bookbench: Remembering a golden age of cinema by reading two of its top critics. http://t.co/8HmHR7Pj

Why you will fail to have a gr…

Karthik — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:48:14 +0000

Why you will fail to have a great career. http://t.co/NDXYBjwm

America is stealing the World’…

Karthik — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:40:48 +0000

America is stealing the World’s Doctors http://t.co/HNlxLBQB

Thanks for sharing this! RT @i…

Karthik — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:39:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! RT @iPrash: RT @brainpicker: How bits came to be http://t.co/LFXdXrjb

Pico Iyer on the unsung heroes…

Karthik — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:17:17 +0000

Pico Iyer on the unsung heroes of the Fukushima cleanup. http://t.co/0TMb7Add

Hilarious. “via @mathitak: @…

Karthik — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:25:03 +0000

Hilarious. “via @mathitak: @leasthelpful, a Tumblr of choice negative Amazon user reviews: http://t.co/bKxgwbO2”

It is perfectly monstrous the …

Karthik — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:21:27 +0000

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about saying things behind one’s back that are entirely true. http://t.co/f0PMEndq

“@iPrash: “Confessions of a …

Karthik — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:04:22 +0000

“@iPrash: “Confessions of a ‘Bad’ Teacher”: http://t.co/NcMrYUPD” other side of teacher ratings, I guess.

Do quants enable us to become…

Karthik — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:38:23 +0000

Do quants enable us to become better versions of ourselves? http://t.co/EEqW23rO (via @aldaily, who else?)

Cancer cures are elusive, beca…

Karthik — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:30:22 +0000

Cancer cures are elusive, because cancer is really, really hard. http://t.co/35zNMQse Staggeringly , mysteriously hard.

Stop the presses. Romney actua…

Karthik — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:04:32 +0000

Stop the presses. Romney actually did *not* flip-flop on something. http://t.co/epZDf9nf

Vonnegut has a strangely centr…

Karthik — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:30:14 +0000

Vonnegut has a strangely central place in American fiction despite his occasional insistence on his own marginality. http://t.co/YXvCfdFa

How Gogol* Explains the Post-S…

Karthik — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:22:47 +0000

How Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World (*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky) http://t.co/VqxjmiVw

Is Umberto Eco the “wisest foo…

Karthik — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:21:05 +0000

Is Umberto Eco the “wisest fool in Christendom?” http://t.co/zg8loPfJ ( via @aldaily)

From the LA Times archive, a c…

Karthik — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:10:00 +0000

From the LA Times archive, a conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. http://t.co/pjCIw5TT

45 years ago, a joint Indo-US …

Karthik — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:22:59 +0000

45 years ago, a joint Indo-US espionage mission lost 5 kilograms of plutonium in the Himalayas. http://t.co/HNZmljcf (via @somethingtoread)

Link Fixed. Amit Chaudhri on …

Karthik — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:40:38 +0000

Link Fixed. Amit Chaudhri on his “living relationship with Tagore”, http://t.co/vlnXZQOi (via http://t.co/jAvnuPv0, a personal favorite)

Amit Chaudhri on his “living …

Karthik — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:35:24 +0000

Amit Chaudhri on his “living relationship with Tagore”, http://t.co/vlnXZQOi (via http://t.co/havoKHXP, a personal favorite)

Lethem on defending plagiarism…

Karthik — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:51:59 +0000

Lethem on defending plagiarism (among other things) http://t.co/pfmgeeku