SCIENCE/TECH

The Thumb on the Scale in the Winner Take All Economy

March 1, 2014   ·   0 Comments

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By Dean Baker: Robert Frank has an interesting discussion in the NYT of the "winner take all" dynamics created by the Internet economy, but he leaves out an ...

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Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism

By Jonathan Latham: The science media has somehow escaped serious attention. This is unfortunate because no country in the world has a healthy science media...

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New York Times Hacked Again, This Time Allegedly by Chinese

By Kim Zetter: In a dramatic announcement late Wednesday, the New York Times reported that hackers from China had been routing through the paper’s network for at least ...

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Thomas Friedman is Way Off Today

By Dean Baker: That's a cheap shot derived from the information that the NYT gave us at the end of Thomas Friedman's column: "Maureen Dowd is off ...

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An Inequality Debate Heats Up

By Jared Bernstein: There’s an interesting debate going on right now as to factors behind the rise in the inequality of earnings that’s been a fixture of ...

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Technology Killed Courtship. Good Riddance.

By Amanda Hess: In the New York Times this weekend, reporter Alex Williams mourns “The End of Courtship.” Texting is to blame for dating’s demise. “Instead of dinner-and-a-movie, which seems ...

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Welcome to Generation “Fidgital”

By Katie Mcdonough: The New York Times introduces a new word -- and pegs a new problem.

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‘Survival of the Wrongest’

By David H. Freedman: In late 2011, in a nearly 6,000-word article in The New York Times Magazine, health writer Tara Parker-Pope laid out the scientific evidence ...

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First We Get Proof of Heaven; Now the Secret of Immortality.

By Paul Raeburn: Only a few weeks after Newsweek and Simon & Schuster gave us proof of heaven, The New York Times now offers us immortality in the form of an article entitled "Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?"

New York Times digital subscriptions have seen an 11% rise

The NYTOnIt Account is Hilarious. Shame the Times Can’t Take a Joke

By Jeff Jarvis: It's sad that the Times' lawyers should have gone after what is clearly fair comment – and perhaps sadder that Twitter caved in.

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