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30 Nov 09

That's disappointing. A song that embodies inclusion gets edited. : The World's Fair

  • the version released on iTunes had completely edited out every element of the deaf choir's performance. Which is a shame really - because I thought it was actually the best part of the song. Now it sounds like a decent but otherwise mundane version of the song.
  • Of course, this begs the larger question. Why would Twentieth Century Fox (the ones who produce the television show as well as release the music for purchase) feel like the parts with the deaf choir would not merit a listen? It's puzzling really - is the music buying public that averse to this sort of thing?
19 Oct 09

Language Log » Freakonomics: the intellectual’s Glenn Beck?

  • We might call this the Pundit's Dilemma — a game, like the Prisoner's Dilemma, in which the player's best move always seems to be to take the low road, and in which the aggregate welfare of the community always seems fated to fall. And this isn't just a game for pundits. Scientists face similar choices every day, in deciding whether to over-sell their results, or for that matter to manufacture results for optimal appeal.
  • the trap of counterintuitiveness
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