Nobel Prize

New Killer Bees — DARPA, Harvard, the Elite and Drones

Reading the words of Felicity Arbuthnot and the culture of murder by decree, by political affirmation, through the international bodies of the dead, the UN, the leaders who eat babies at birth, with the flick of a pen, and with the stealth of billion-dollar bombers, or the guided propaganda or hand-to-hand instruction of the School of Murder, Inc., and she puts it right in the bullseye of a warped world of sick awards and accolades.

Nobel economist Robert Shiller seems to be saying: I'm right, they're wrong, but we can all be friends

Why not Nobel Prizes for one and all? says Professor Shiller -- "even if we sometimes seem to come from different planets.""Actually, I do not completely oppose the efficient-markets theory. I have been calling it a half-truth. If the theory said nothing more than that it is unlikely that the average amateur investor can get rich quickly by trading in the markets based on publicly available information, the theory would be spot on.

The New Yorker's James Wood pays splendid tribute to much-loved new literature Nobelist Alice Munro

With "The Bear Who Came Over the Mountain" update below"At the level of the sentence, [Alice Munro's] stories proceed within the grammar of conventional realism; but at the formal level, her work invents its own grammar, which is why her stories strike many readers as closer to novellas than to any idea of 'the conventional well-made short story.' "-- James Wood, in a newyorker.com blogpost,"