Some light weekend reading.
Kirston Capps on Washington summer interns, via Matt Yglesias.
Neither my Hill internship nor my summertime fellowship in DC when all my vollege friends had internships resembled this image in the slightest; but I recognize the truth of it, because all the other interns around me sure seemed to be leading that kind of life. Kirston notes “Though different in appearance, both male and female interns share distinctive features (“AmEx cards”)!” Maybe it was the absence of one of those in my pocket, and the lack of parental resources that underlay that absence, that accounts for my apparently having missed the entire point of spending three months in DC as a late teen or early twenty-something.
There’s been a terrific conversation going on about book-buying, the merits of paperbacks and clothbounds, moving books, and other matters near and dear to my heart: Amber Taylor, Polytropos, Will Baude, and more (follow the links).
“Shelfworthy” [heh] has acquired a whole new meaning in my lie since the wall next to the computer in my home office became occupied by built-in whitewashed maple 12′ high bookcases from 57th Street Bookcases. No more double-stacking, no more horizontal stacking, and I got three rows of mass-market-paperback sized shelves put on the bottom, away from eye level. Yes, I’ve come to care about the aesthetic presentation of my collection… at home. The office is another story. I suspect I’ve got fewer than a thousand books in my home, not counting my wife’s books, cookbooks, or graphic novels. I suspect I’ve got over two thousand in my office, not counting the journals that just keep coming– all in the university’s standard issue black steel bookcases. Aesthetics go out the window, or they would if I could get to the window to open it.
Following that set of posts about my greatest obsession, I saw (via Tyler over at Marginal Revolution) Randall Parker’s post about #2 on my list: coffee.
Researchers at the Sleep Disorders Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago along with colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have shown that caffeine is best admnistered in a larger number of smaller doses with the doses coming later in the day.
Of course, researchers contradict each other all the time. So I’ll play it safe with larger numbers of larger doses, early and late in the day.
Finally, in an attempt to reclaim the blogosphere from all the legal and constitutional theory that’s been around for the last couple of weeks (kidding!), Chris Bertram starts a thread on the best political theory and political philosophy articles of the last decade.
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