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Following up on The Race for the Tallest Skyscraper (sort of):

Plans are underway to create the world's biggest building in Moscow, a gigantic monstrosity dubbed Crystal Island that'll dominate the skyline. The $4 billion "city in a building" will cover a whopping 2.5 million square meters of floor space and feature all sorts of smaller buildings in its interior. There'll be hotels, apartments, museums, cinemas, and more, with enough space to house 30,000 residents. In fact, it'll have 3000 hotel rooms, 900 serviced apartments, offices and shops, and an international school for 500 pupils.

It'll feature spectacular views from its 1,500-foot-high peak, to be sure. It's not just a design that'll never be made, either; plans are underway to get this thing under construction within 5 years. Fortunately, eco-friendly energy usage is at the heart of the design, utilizing on-site renewable and low-carbon energy generation. Perhaps this will actually make me want to visit Moscow. We'll see.

Crystal Island in Moscow to be the world's biggest building

You never forget your first concert or your first urinal. And here at the Nassau Coliseum on Friday night, where some men’s rooms had been turned into emergency women’s rooms, at least a few girls saw both.

A Girls’ Night Out to Remember

The easiest way to get Dugg is to have a trivial idea.

Once having committed stupidity, it seemed preferable to remain consistently stupid until the bitter end. I would stick to my guns, even if they were pointed at my own head.

Waiting to do something until you can be sure of doing it exactly right means waiting for ever.

The settlers are calling their compound "House of Peace," but are also considering "Martyrs’ Peak."

Pakistan is the most urbanized country in South Asia.

"Look, this is a democracy," said one woman there who refused to be identified.

And so what kind of country do I want to live in? I want to live in the kind of country where a woman doesn't get slapped for wearing a "Kitty Not Happy" T-shirt.

Most of the essays in "Monkeyluv" are engaging. This one is a masterpiece.

Taking for granted the misery of the human condition, goth turns depression into an aesthetic, a semi-ironic pose — a perfect style for the awkward and self-conscious.

Something about our fast-paced, super consumerist society seems to have robbed the teaching vocation of the respect it deserves.

I discovered when I talked to teachers in my local schools that "critical thinking" is regarded by some as a plot to incite children to question authority.

Public-school systems run by static teachers unions may find themselves abandoned by young parents, "accessing" K-8 education in unforeseen ways. Big media and big politics are all flying through an electronic meteor shower just now, and not all will survive.

Thanks to tenure, the people who can't tolerate biological insight into human affairs are still around in the universities.

Getting a Ph.D. today means spending your 20’s in graduate school, plunging into debt, writing a dissertation no one will read – and becoming more narrow and more bitter each step of the way.

People are prurient, and they like to lap up the gossip. People also enjoy judging other people’s liv... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]

Hackers often go into technology precisely because they feel uncomfortable with the amount of fakeness required in other fields.

The lessons are clear. A woman is sexier when she is most fertile.

Satellite radio is soaring in popularity. Of course, that may not be a reflection of XM or Sirius' quality so much as the mundanity and drollery of Clear Channel America.

Why not rejoin that inner circle of the select for an evening?

Selling out is the only way to escape childhood.

What appears to be wasted time is really jell time.

There are a lot of talented groups out there that you've probably never heard of.

Many hedge fund managers ... are just picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. And sometimes the steamroller accelerates.

Funny. (British Funny.)

A long wave of foreclosures seems inevitable.

Even if necessary changes in policy are implemented, the odds now favour a US recession that slows growth significantly on a global basis. Without stronger policy responses than have been observed to date, moreover, there is the risk that the adverse impacts will be felt for the rest of this decade and beyond.

Most people who try Second Life do not like it.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take the long-term approach.

The number one thing not to do is other things.

Climate change offers “the greatest business opportunity that has ever come along."

In truth, the perverse reality of luxury consumption today is that so few people are complaining.

The fact of the matter is basic and ineluctable: we need these lists. The year would not be complete without them. The year would not make sense without them.

Americans love gumption. We believe that stupid ideas become brilliant ones if you just keep working on them with bullish tenacity.

The real reason to wear the mask is to spare others the discomfort of seeing your facial expression ... To make it possible to see without seeing.

After the war, we were not so much disillusioned by our prospects as giddily illusioned by them.

... He was free to be less than perfect, which is more interesting than perfect.

It is more important for a critic to be interesting than to be right.

It's sad to think there was a time when people lined up around the block to see Bergman movies… and how unimaginable that is now.

Want to predict the future of innovation? Simply predict the future of attractiveness, effectiveness, and desirability. Then act accordingly.

Annual budget of Miami's police department, expressed as a percentage of the production cost of the film "Miami Vice": 83

The avant-garde isn't what it used to be.

Perhaps there is something reassuring about exhibiting the quaint beliefs of previous eras.

The Internet ... plays to [a] powerful force in modern America and one that undermines the movies: narcissism.

The formula is simple: two people, a few instruments, 88 minutes and not a single false note.

It is, I suspect, a film to return to, like a country waiting to be explored: a maze of dead ends and new life.

They were dense and crisp and precise but also full of character: his mouse conveys something fundamentally mouse-ish, his ant has an essential ant-ness. His insects were especially beautiful.

The Rest Is Noise is cultural history the way cultural history should be written: a single strong narrative operating on many levels at once. What more do you want from a book? That it be intelligently, artfully, and lucidly written? It’s those things, too.

Babies aged between eight and sixteen months know on average six to eight fewer words for every hour of baby DVDs and videos they watch daily.

Indeed, only 63 words ... are needed to make up half of everything said on TV.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

We are sliding towards an irreversible obsession with totally visual communication.

The eye has been trained to scan, and to receive, and less and less to read.
More and more, Americans don't have the time to think, let alone to read.

If there is no common culture, no common standards, then each group becomes an island; metaphorical sharks are perceived to cruise between the islands, so they have less and less to do with one another, and diversity becomes its opposite.

We all have a long, imaginary shelf of masterpieces we have not read.

There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all.

Turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like that page, buy the book.

To many readers, Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is the most intimidating of literary monuments. It is there, like a vast, unexplored continent, and all sorts of daunting rumors circulate about life in the interior. But once you cross the border, you discover that the world of “War and Peace” is more familiar and at the same time more surprising than the rumors suggested.

What does it mean to be a writer?
Constant self-monitoring to see if a thought is actually an idea.

The Federal Reserve Act authorizes the Federal Reserve to undertake various types of discount window loans and open market operations. While the Federal Reserve generally has not found it necessary to use all types of such authority, there could be circumstances in which the Federal Reserve might need to consider utilizing its statutory authority more broadly than it has in the past. We examine the limits imposed by the Federal Reserve Act along two dimensions: those types of counterparties and financial instruments with which the Federal Reserve may conduct monetary policy. In doing so, we develop a theme not commonly pursued in the literature - the ways and extent to which the Federal Reserve Act limits the Federal Reserve from taking credit risk onto its balance sheet. We also provide some historical perspective on how the current powers of the Federal Reserve came to be authorized.

This paper is mentioned in a recent story in the Telegraph.

The Scope of Monetary Policy Actions Authorized under the Federal Reserve Act

Few Westerners will find it convenient to break the eight-solid-hours mold, but that tells you more about the kind of society we are than what our bodies and minds might really need.

Perchance to Dream

My experience with Greenpeace gave me a long-running interest in the way much environmental science involves mathematical formulas or computer models. The most famous recent examples of these are the "general circulation models" used to produce predictions of future climatic conditions. An important book has just been published by an Australian academic that raises the question of whether this should be regarded as science at all.

The book is Science And Public Policy, and the author is Professor Aynsley Kellow, the head of the school of government at the University of Tasmania. Kellow believes that environmental science has often been corrupted by the good intentions of its practitioners, so that it consists of wishful thinking rather than facts and provable theories. Perhaps the first big case of this was the notorious Limits To Growth study published by the Club of Rome in 1972, based on computer modelling and subsequently disproved. One might expect the quality of models to improve, but since then they have been used for all sorts of predictions, and there is little evidence they have got much better.

Despite this, the predictions made by such models are now contained in scientific papers published in leading journals, which gives the status of science to what is often little more than wishful thinking.

Virtual science is no substitute for the real thing