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Crosswords & Games
A Numberplay Farewell
Gary Antonick, outgoing writer of The Times’s Numberplay column, shares a lesson learned from seven years of puzzle-solving.Each machine takes five minutes to make a widget.
One hundred machines will take five minutes to make one hundred widgets.
Map thinking.
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Times Insider
Meet the Leading Expert on Political Leaders’ Health, and His ‘West Wing’ Doppelgänger
“President Bartlet will call on you at a press conference after he discloses he has multiple sclerosis,” my sister Dottie said over the phone in 2001. Huh?The health of the present candidates does not seem to be in question.
Lawrence K. Altman, M.D. has been working.
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Education
On Being Noam Chomsky
The academic and activist talks about his critics, his celebrity and his legacy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability_theory#Turing_computability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem
"The most important issue we face, a real question of species survival, is climate change. I’ve been criticized for advocating a politics of fear, which is correct. That’s not a criticism. That’s sanity."
"Humans face critical problems that have never arisen before in their history, problems of survival of organized human life on earth. They are barely mentioned in the current electoral extravaganza and the voluminous commentary about it. Fortunately, young people are often deeply concerned and directly engaged"
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Food
Delmonico’s Welcomes a White House Chef
John Moeller, a veteran of three administrations, has created a Presidential Palate menu with the executive chef of Delmonico’s, Billy Oliva.OK
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Food
Gabriel Kreuther’s Chocolate Shop Opens
Across from Bryant Park, a playground for chocolate makers and lovers from the pastry chef Marc Aumont.I am attempting to avoid sugar and its component fructose.
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Opinion
What Do Clinton and Merkel Have in Common?
Both are pathbreaking women politicians who can’t get the respect they deserve.Angela Merkel seems to hold with Germany first economics.
If she showed some willingness toward debt forgiveness for other participants in the Euro I would trust her policies more.
Her position on foreign debt may be a political requirement for her retention of power.
If it is I would like to know.
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Opinion
Strangers on a Strange Election
The 2016 presidential campaign as experienced by four writers originally from somewhere else.If I could escape the consequences of this election they would make wonderful drama.
Pop-corn would be appropriate.
I cannot escape either the depression or the religious war which will result.
My choice is Hillary and depression.
It seems the better choice.
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Opinion
Why Blame Huma Abedin?
“We must stop blaming women for their husbands’ mistakes,” a reader writes.Joanna Naples-Mitchell and I do not live in the same perceptual universe.
As far as I know Huma Abedin is blameless.
The discovered e-mail should have been examined in previous investigations of
Hillary Clinton's use of e-mail.
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Business Day
Wall St. Edges Mostly Higher on Deal Reports
Shares of Baker Hughes and Level 3 Communications rose after acquisition news.I cannot explain the behavior of financial markets.
"Buy on rumor. Sell on news."
"Markets climb a wall of worry."
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Books
Was Alan Greenspan Motivated by Politics More Than Economics?
Sebastian Mallaby’s “The Man Who Knew” is a biography of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006."Why? The answer at the time was that there was little threat of inflation, and the Fed’s main job is keeping consumer prices stable. But Greenspan understood how asset bubbles could harm the economy. A more convincing answer is that while Greenspan was (and is) a more capable economist than he gets credit for these days, he was an even better politician. And committing the institution he ran to a battle that it might not win and that he wasn’t absolutely certain needed fighting was not the kind of thing a smart politician did."
"It was Greenspan’s libertarianism that propelled him into politics, but his other attributes that made him successful at it. At Rand’s urging, he delivered a series of lectures in 1963 and 1964 on the “Economics of a Free Society,” inveighing against, among other things, “one of the historic disasters in American history, the creation of the Federal Reserve System.” A few years later, a Rand fan who had attended one of the lectures brought Greenspan into Richard Nixon’s orbit. He signed on as a policy adviser to Nixon’s 1968 campaign, and learned quickly — when he drafted a position paper condemning farm subsidies — that a libertarian purist wouldn’t get far in a presidential campaign. So he adapted, and found other ways to make himself useful, such as putting the IBM 1130 computer at Townsend-Greenspan to work collating and evaluating poll results, Nate Silver-style."
Alan Greenspan was profoundly destructive of the American and world economy.
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Science
Bob Dylan Won. But in Science, the Times They Aren’t A-Changin’.
The Nobel Prize recipient in literature might show up at the ceremony. But the view of who’s worthy of the honor in other fields should expand.Stop complaining and report all of science.
The Nobel committees have a difficult task.
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The Learning Network
Minding the Generation Gap: Investigating Media Portrayals of Millennials and ‘Gen Z’
How meaningful and useful are blanket descriptions of different generations? A teenager invites others his age to analyze some examples and find out.Children continue to be children.
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T Magazine
Hunting Pigeon in the Pyrenees — for Supper
For centuries, the men of the Basque Country have hunted wild pigeon. Their weapons of choice: paddles and nets.I don't shoot.
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U.S.
Latest Unpaid Trump Vendor Is His Own Pollster, Filing Shows
A Federal Election Commission filing indicates that Donald J. Trump’s campaign has disputed a bill of more than $750,000 from the pollster Tony Fabrizio.I can smile.
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World
Australia’s Proposed Lifetime Ban on Boat-Borne Refugees Draws Fire
The ban would apply to adult asylum seekers who try to come to Australia by boat, regardless of where they settle and are eventually granted citizenship.The position seems extreme.
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Was Alan Greenspan Motivated by Politics More Than Economics?
Politics drove Alan Greenspan.
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