1 How to Be French. A miniature masterpiece from Jeremy Harding, channeling Nicholas Sarkozy: "I’m confident you’ll share my view that you’re only French when you don’t make a fuss about racial origins"
2 Robin Hanson revisits the clash of civilisations
3 Craig Newmark links to an oldie but goldie: Dave Barry explains academic life. "If you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this."
2 Robin Hanson revisits the clash of civilisations
3 Craig Newmark links to an oldie but goldie: Dave Barry explains academic life. "If you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this."