…I present “The Devil and Miss Regan” by Judith Newman as Exhibit A.
Year / 2006
But Somehow They Can Still Find Porn
Inside Higher Ed: “Overreliance on Google is only one of many technology problems facing college students. A new report released Tuesday by the Educational Testing Service finds that students lack many basic skills in information literacy, which ETS defines as the ability to use technology to solve information problems.”
Gray Lady Music Critics Are Getting a Little Too Familiar
New York Times Corrections: “A picture caption on Monday with the continuation of a music review of ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia,’ at the Metropolitan Opera, misstated the given name of the performer at the lower left. He is Juan Diego Flórez, not John.”
The Virtues of Selfishness?
Scientific American: “When money is on the brain, people become disinclined to ask for help when faced with a difficult or even an impossible puzzle….People who think, even subconsciously, about money are also less helpful than others, the researchers say. After witnessing a pre-arranged accident in which someone walking through the testing area dropped a box of pencils, money-primed participants picked up fewer of the fallen pencils than the other subjects did.”
Choose Your Own OJ Adventure
Forget OJ’s prognostication. Mr. Levi Asher tells the world how he would have carried out the murders. Memo to FOX: if you replaced OJ with random individuals explaining how they would carry out a twin murder, then I think it would probably be a lot more interesting.