April 2008
14 posts
Getting the most out of field visits
A few days ago, the development blog Blood and Milk posted an excellent entry on field visits which gave clarity to many of the ideas that had been wafting around in my head since I returned from my internship in Egypt. My personal favourite: Always keep this in mind: your two primary goals in any trip are to learn more about your programs, and more about the context they operate in. You may have...
Apr 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
Crystal Castles  Hot Chip  Why?  Ariane Moffatt  Arcade Fire  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Apr 27th
Apr 25th
Happy as a gun owner?
Voters in small, Southern US towns may be bitter and clinging to guns or religion, but there is some strong evidence that Obama got the relationship between voting behaviour, economics, and sociology wrong. More interesting than than all this “bittergate” crap is that according to Arthur Brooks, US gun owners have the same level of formal education as nongun owners, on average....
Apr 21st
Link Love
My roommate and good friend Travis Boisvenue is starting out in arts journalism and has a shiny new blog where he is posting some of his better work. Good luck Travis. Check it out.
Apr 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20) →
The Books  The Beach Boys  Lena Chamamyan  Thievery Corporation  Peter Bjorn & John  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Apr 20th
Apr 17th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13) →
Why?  Menomena  R.E.M.  Feist  Great Lake Swimmers  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Apr 15th
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Apr 12th
This mom knows parenting
She let her 9-year-old son find his own way home on the subway because he “had been begging for me to please leave him somewhere, anywhere, and let him try to figure out how to get home on his own.” She realized that statistically, the streets of NY are actually safe, and that if he asked for help chances are pretty good the person he approached would not think “Gee, I was about...
Apr 12th
“You can now have Charlton Heston’s gun.”
– John Moltz
Apr 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-6) →
Fleetwood Mac  Gnarls Barkley  Great Lake Swimmers  Thievery Corporation  Iron & Wine  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Apr 7th
Please let this be true:
 The BBC reports that a daily cup of coffee may cut your risk of dementia. I have a feeling each additional cup doesn’t further cut your risk. Shame.
Apr 6th