Copyright 2013 Smartertimes.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:45:27 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Smartertimes.com :: Writings http://www.smartertimes.com webmaster@smartertimes.com (Smartertimes.com) webmaster@smartertimes.com en-us http://www.smartertimes.com/928/on-brain-scans-ny-times-ignores-its-own-columnist Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:39:00 EST "The next time somebody tells you what a brain scan says, be a little skeptical. The brain is not the mind." — David Brooks, New York Times column, page A25, June 18, 2013. "Breast Milk Is Good For the Brain, Scans Show" — headline of article, New York http://www.smartertimes.com/927/always-the-inequality Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:43:00 EST A Times column headlined "What Sweden Can Tell Us About ObamaCare" reports: The United States spends more than $8,000 a person per year on health care, well more than twice what Sweden spends. Yet health outcomes are far better in Sweden along virtually http://www.smartertimes.com/926/iranian-moderates Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:22:00 EST The New York Times seems to be moderating its description of the winning candidate in Iran's presidential election, Hassan Rowhani. Here's the evolution of the Times coverage: Saturday, page one headline: "Moderate in Iranian Election Leads in Initial http://www.smartertimes.com/925/a-swipe-at-fox-news Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:56:00 EST From a New York Times news article on the departure of David DeVoe, the chief financial officer of News Corp.: That split will take place on June 28, when entertainment assets like Fox News, FX and a Hollywood studio will form a new company called 21st http://www.smartertimes.com/924/mike-d-age Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:50:00 EST An article in the Home section of the New York Times about a Brooklyn house owned by the musician Mike D of the Beastie Boys and his wife filmmaker Tamra Davis carries the following sentence: Mr. Diamond, who prefers not to give his age, now has two boys http://www.smartertimes.com/923/treason Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:07:00 EST An editorial in today's New York Times correctly faults Speaker Boehner and Senator Feinstein for characterizing Edward Snowden, the source of the Guardian and Washington Post articles about secret U.S. government data collection programs, as a traitor. http://www.smartertimes.com/922/conservatives-as-defenders-of-the-media Sun, 9 Jun 2013 23:57:00 EST A New York Times article about conservatives upset at the Department of Justice for scrutinizing journalists includes the following paragraph: "It's a sea change, to say the least, in how it's being covered," said Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at Media http://www.smartertimes.com/921/broadway-nudity Sun, 9 Jun 2013 23:49:00 EST A New York Times article about the trend of male nudity in Broadway and West End observes that the actors are becoming "eye candy for the tired businesswoman or gay man. (And don't think that producers aren't banking on the appeal to that reliable http://www.smartertimes.com/920/corporate-governance Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:07:00 EST The business section of today's New York Times carries an article by reporter Stephanie Clifford under the headline: "More Dissent Is in Store Over Wal-Mart Scandal." The Times reports: Some investors also objected to the heavy presence of insider http://www.smartertimes.com/919/when-lautenberg-left Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:23:00 EST The New York Times obituary of Frank Lautenberg reported, "When he joined the company, he was its fifth employee. But it grew rapidly, and by 1982, when he left the company as its chief executive, it was one of the largest computer service companies in http://www.smartertimes.com/918/spelling-kneydl Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:06:00 EST A Times op-ed piece by Dara Horn blames the demise of standard transliterated spelling of Yiddish on the Nazis: "The only real difference between Webster's project and YIVO's is that, for six million devastating reasons, YIVO's failed and Webster's http://www.smartertimes.com/917/powerless-advocates Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:57:00 EST Gail Collins writes in a column in today's Times: Nothing major is going to happen for early-childhood education without an enormous groundswell of public demand. This is a cause that's extremely popular in theory. But its advocates have no power to http://www.smartertimes.com/916/insider-trading-at-the-times Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:38:00 EST From an article about a book by a former hedge fund employee: "The Buy Side" is one of several titles due out this summer pegged to the extensive government insider trading investigation, a list that includes "Circle of Friends" by Charles Gasparino, a http://www.smartertimes.com/915/diversity-cops Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:36:00 EST The Times obsession with race and gender diversity crops up in some unexpected places in the paper. Restaurant critic Pete Wells, last seen here writing about the "pleasure" of being served by "women" and "others who don't look like men of European http://www.smartertimes.com/914/lost-in-the-bronx Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:50:00 EST A Michael Powell column faulting the Archdiocese of New York for laying off teachers at Catholic schools and offering severance of either six months of health insurance or $5,000 twice refers to "University Boulevard" in the Bronx. A Smartertimes