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The Guardian on books on cults and religious extremists. I love any list that calls The DaVinci Code "literary crack cocaine—reading it does you no good at all, but you just can't stop." Actually, I found it easy to put down and hard to pick back up.
A lot of these are fugly, but I bet any Stereophile reader worth his (or her) salt has seen much worse flipping through yard sales.
Well, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project could change the world, which is pretty much the same thing.
Via Engadget.
So, I figured I should sit down and do some serious listening. [Hee hee. That cracks me up.]
Alright, I need to make comparisons. But I'm not going to use the Magnavox. That would just be silly. There's really no point. Everything sounds better with the DeVore speakers and Arcam Solo. Sometimes the immediately discernible difference is subtle, simply a matter of volume. But then there's also greater presence — I mean that I can feel the music, I can sense the musicians and their instruments in the space before me. If you were sitting here with me, I could point them out…
In 1987, one out of every 10,000 children was diagnosed with autism; in 2003, it was one out of every 166. How well has the press handled the story of a vaccine's potential involvement? Not so well, argues CJR.
A lot depends on how you define "diagnose." A new study in Nature reveals that relatives of the autistic exhibit many of the same brain abnormalities without having the disorder.