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Failing to Understand the Social Sciences

Jamil Zaki | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Anthropology, Social Science, New York Times, Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Nyt, Media News

Gutting succumbs to an old stereotype: believing that there is a bright line between "hard" natural sciences -- which produce real information -- and "soft" social sciences, which do not.

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Former NYT Ombud Goes To Broadway

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: New York Times, Daniel Okrent Old Jews Telling Jokes, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Daniel Okrent Off-Broadway, Daniel Okrent, Nyt, Ap, Media News

NEW YORK (AP) — There's an easy trick to writing a good Jewish joke — just make the idiot at the center of it sound Jewish. "Any jo...

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8 Future New York Times "I Quit" Op-Eds

Lee Brenner | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, Rush Limbaugh, Nyt, Why I'm Leaving Golkdman Sachs, Greg Smith Goldman Sachs, Humor, Greg Smith Resignation, Satire, Resignation Letter, New York Times, Comedy, Comedy News

A 12-year veteran of Goldman Sachs wrote a scathing editorial for the New York Times about his resignation from the finance giant, in which he blasts the company for putting client interests secondary to profits. In other news, Darth Vader announced he is leaving the Empire.

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The Times Sends NYPD A Stern Note Over Treatment Of Photographer

AP | By SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 12.14.2011

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NEW YORK -- Video of a police officer's apparent attempts to block a New York Times free-lancer from photographing arrests at an Occupy Wall Street pr...

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Memo to Murdoch -- WSJ: Flatlands Is in Brooklyn, Not the Bronx

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: John Seeley, Judith Miller, Brooklyn Hostage, Brooklyn Hold Up, Wsj, Sean Gardiner, Bronx, Flatlands, Nyt, Metro Section Wsj, The Wall Street Journal, Michael Wolff, Brooklyn, The New York Times, New York News

Today's front page of the WSJ's Metro section had a center picture with a headline reading: "Standoff in the Bronx." The problem is that the Flatlands is in Brooklyn, not the Bronx.

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Andrew Cuomo Opens Up To The Times About 2016

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Religion, 2016, Andrew Cuomo, Governor Cuomo, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Gay Marriage, President, Nyt, New York, Media News

Maureen Dowd interviewed Andrew Cuomo in her Tuesday op-ed column, one of the New York governor's first non-radio chats in quite some time. The New...

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Editor Of Jose Vargas Piece Leaves Times Mag For Yahoo News

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Jose Vargas, Media Shakeups, New York Times Magazine, New York Times, Immigration, Washington Post, Jose Antonio Vargas, Media, Nyt, Yahoo News, Yahoo, Media News

Chris Suellentrop, an editor at the New York Times Magazine, is leaving to join Yahoo's blog team, the Cutline announced. News of his departure com...

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Jim Cramer: The Old Me Would Have Hit Jon Stewart With A Chair

Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Video, Chair, Jon Stewart, New York Times, Hedge Fund, Mad Money, New York Stock Exchange, Nyt, Jim Cramer, Business News

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's Mad Money and a former hedge fund manager, is never one for biting his tongue. But in a profile in New York Times m...

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Peace Corps Volunteers Speak Out On Rape

nytimes.com | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: New York Times, Sexual Assault Sexual Assault and the Peace Corps, Rape, Nyt, Peace Corps, College News

Today, Ms. Smochek is among a growing group of former Peace Corps volunteers who are speaking out about their sexual assaults, prompting scrutiny from...

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New York Times To Offer Online Classes

AP | Posted 07.10.2011

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NEW YORK -- The New York Times Knowledge Network and New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University are teaming up to offer online courses in subjects ra...

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Experts Suggest Link Between Daily Increase in Cairo Crowd Size and New York Times Headline Font Size

John Baxter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Satire, Parody, New York Times, Egypt, Nyt, Comedy News

Experts say the size of the font used by The New York Times for its now daily Egyptian uprising cover story headlines has shown an increase at roughly...

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Who's Really to Blame for the Housing Crisis?

Jodie Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freddie Mac, Bush Administration, Fannie Mac, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Stepheen Moore, American Enterprise Institute, Fcic, Rockies Air and Space Museum, Bullish on Bush, Wall Street, Joe Nocera, Nyt, Peter Wallison, Business News

Measures are needed to restrain the public as well as the private financial sectors. But it might be easier to enact sensible reforms if the fingers of blame point in a more equitable direction.

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A Lot of Stress, Not a Lot of Learning

Daniel Luzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stress, College Dropouts, Higher Education, College, Learning, New York Times, Higher Education Policy, Higher Education Research Institute, Nyt, Social Science Research Council, College News

College freshmen are apparently over-medicated, tightly-wound balls of tension and fear. What's more, they're also not learning anything.

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Why the PISA Debates Are Misleading -- and Useful

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Academic Excellence, Rebecca Weiner, Pisa, Raising Global Children, Nyt, Stacie Berdan, Education News

If the PISA test results give us the impetus we need to truly prioritize academic education -- in our families, communities, governments, and schools -- then all the hype will be more than worthwhile.

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New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and "Squatters" Vulnerable

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Residents of some camps are being given enough aid to keep them alive, but with no permanent sanitation and infrastructure, while everyone is vulnerable to cholera. Cholera will be the great equalizer in the "good camp" "bad camp" debate.

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You're Not Going to Believe This But the Future of the New York Times May Now Actually Be Bright

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

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The crisis has passed. And The New York Times is now actually in much better shape than most people think -- so much better that its future might even be bright.

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Video: The NYTimes.com Goes Live Tonight with Video News and Commentary, a First

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beet.TV, New York Times, Election Coverage, 2010 Elections, Live Video, Nyt, Livestream, The New York Times, Keith Olbermann, Media News

Will Frank Rich beat Keith Olbermann in tonight's ratings around the election returns? Probably not, but in a first, The New York Times is going li...

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Shifting Education's Roots (VIDEO)

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Sir Ken Robinson, Nyt, The New York Times, New York Times, Harlem Children's Zone, Sharon-Otterman, Education Reform, Geoffrey Canada, Rsanimate, Education News

At the moment, it is fair to say that the jury is still out on the Harlem Children's Zone. There are things that they do well, but it is not a resounding success as media, such as Waiting for 'Superman', will lead us to believe.

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Video: New York Times Integration with International Herald Tribune Attracts Big Global Online Audience

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS -- Last year, the Web sites of The New York Times and the Times-owned International Herald Tribune were combined to become the Global Edition ...

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It's Okay to Be Ambidextrous, but Don't Let Either Hand Do All the Work: on Jaron Lanier and Book Buying

John Mesjak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bookselling, Online Shopping, Indie Bookstores, Jaron Lanier, Nyt, Independent Bookstores, Local Bookstores, Amazon.com, Online Book Shopping, Ebooks, Books News

Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but online search & shop can only take us so far.

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VIDEO: Nick Bilton: How the Porn Industry Leads the Digital Media Industry

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nick Bilton, the lead writer of The New York Times technology Bits blog, says that the porn industry has lead the way with digital media by first ha...

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Assert Yourself, America; Don't Be an Illegal Trade Victim

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zhao Feng, Keith Bradsher, Wind Turbines, Forced Technology Transfer, U.S. Trade Representative, Bp, Terbium, Hunan Sunzone Optoelectronics, Nyt, Exports, Usw, United Steelworkers, China, Solar World, Stimulus, Evergreen Solar, World Trade Organization, Imports, Frank A. Asbeck, Rare Earth, New York Times, Wto, Dysprosium, Rare Earth Materials, Solar Cells, Energy Debates, Business News

How is it that America finds herself in the position of schoolyard patsy, woe-is-me casualty of China's illegal trade practices that are destroying U.S. renewable energy manufacturing and foreclosing an energy-independent future?

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The Transition to Sustainability Management Is Finally Underway

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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The issue of sustainability is no longer a luxury item or an add-on to those factors routinely addressed by management; it has moved to the apex of management concerns.

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Simpson's 'Tits' Are the Least of It

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matt Bai, Treasury Department, Social Security, Alan Simpson, Earl Blumenauer, Nyt, Politics News

Social Security is in surplus until 2037. Yet the idea that the road to recovery leads through cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and other social outlays that are keeping the depression from worsening, if anything, is gaining traction among opinion elites.

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What Matters This Week: Who Owns the Hot Rocks of Iceland?

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Magma, Leed, Clean Coal, Electric Cars, Associated Press, Marijuana Car, Geothermal Energy, Climate Change, Iceland, Coal, Nyt, Green News

Congress is out of session, so the Matter Network had to look elsewhere this week to find stories of environmental stewardship gone awry.

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