The National Endowment for the Arts issued a report yesterday titled Reading on the Rise, which showed that more Americans have their noses in books. Kinda.The percentage of adults who’d read a novel, short story, play, or poem in the last 12 months climbed to 50.2 percent. That’s up from 46.7 percent in 2002. Good […]
This just in from the Department of Self-Promotion . . . If you’re in or around Hartford, CT, on Monday January 12, please tune in to Connecticut Public Television (Channel 24) at 8pm for the debut of television special based on A Whole New Mind. The program will air during pledge week on CPTV — and then on other public
First came six-word autobiographies. Now Smith Magazine and the National Constitution Center are teaming up to collect suggestions for six words to inspire President-elect Obama and perhaps to include in his Inaugural Address. Here are some possibilities, both my own and selections from the Smith web site: Today the American story begins anew. We can,
I’ve been away for a few days — but on the way back to D.C. this afternoon, this factoid from the IRS’s national taxpayer advocate screamed out at me from the pages of USA Today: “Federal tax-filing requirements have become so complex that they eat up 7.6 billion work hours a year, making the overall
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Today’s Wall Street Journal has a terrific story about Igor Panarin, a respected Russian scholar and policy guru who’s peddling an audacious prediction:The United States of America will be no more by 2010.And it won’t be Russian missile doing us in. We’ll rot from the inside, says Panarin. (Kinda like the Soviet Union? — Ed.)
Seth Schiesel, the must-read video game critic at the NY Times offers a year-end recap that included this item, which offers advice for businesses beyond the gaming world:“This year CCP of Iceland . . . invited the more than 200,000 players of Eve Online to vote for nine representatives from around the world to convey their concerns and suggestions about the
