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Introduction: From two years ago : Awhile ago I was cleaning out the closet and found some old unread magazines. Good stuff. As we’ve discussed before , lots of things are better read a few years late. Today I was reading the 18 Nov 2004 issue of the London Review of Books, which contained (among other things) the following: - A review by Jenny Diski of a biography of Stanley Milgram. Diski appears to want to debunk: Milgram was a whiz at devising sexy experiments, but barely interested in any theoretical basis for them. They all have the same instant attractiveness of style, and then an underlying emptiness. Huh? Michael Jordan couldn’t hit the curveball and he was reportedly an easy mark for golf hustlers but that doesn’t diminish his greatness on the basketball court. She also criticizes Milgram for being “no help at all” for solving international disputes. OK, fine. I haven’t solved any international disputes either. Milgram, though, . . . he conducted an imaginative exp
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2 Today I was reading the 18 Nov 2004 issue of the London Review of Books, which contained (among other things) the following: - A review by Jenny Diski of a biography of Stanley Milgram. [sent-4, score-0.316]
3 Diski appears to want to debunk: Milgram was a whiz at devising sexy experiments, but barely interested in any theoretical basis for them. [sent-5, score-0.119]
4 Michael Jordan couldn’t hit the curveball and he was reportedly an easy mark for golf hustlers but that doesn’t diminish his greatness on the basketball court. [sent-8, score-0.119]
5 She also criticizes Milgram for being “no help at all” for solving international disputes. [sent-9, score-0.066]
6 And then in his afterlife he must suffer the indignity of someone writing that his findings are useless because people still haven’t absorbed them. [sent-16, score-0.119]
7 - A review by Patrick Collinson of a biography of Anne Boleyn. [sent-18, score-0.257]
8 Too bad the policymakers weren’t reading the London Review of Books. [sent-25, score-0.131]
9 - A review by Wyatt Mason of a book by David Foster Wallace. [sent-27, score-0.159]
10 Mason reviews in detail a story with a complicated caught-in-a-dream plot which the critic James Wood, writing for the New Republic, got completely wrong. [sent-28, score-0.131]
11 Wood got a key plot point backwards and as a result misunderstands the story and blames Wallace for creating an unsympathetic character. [sent-29, score-0.311]
12 I was curious as to whether Wood ever acknowledged Mason’s correctly, or apologized to Wallace for misreading his story, so I Googled *james wood david foster wallace*. [sent-31, score-0.488]
13 ” I dunno: After reading Wood’s earlier review, maybe Wallace felt he had to overexplain. [sent-35, score-0.059]
14 I thought it best to look this one up so I Googled “chicken consumption usda” and came up with this document by Jean Buzby and Hodan Farah, which contains this delightfully-titled graph: OK, so it wasn’t a hundredfold increase, actually only sixfold. [sent-39, score-0.414]
15 People were eating way more than a quarter of a chicken a year in 1934. [sent-40, score-0.455]
16 And chicken consumption did not increase steadily since 1928. [sent-41, score-0.568]
17 This got me curious: who is Hugh Pennington, exactly? [sent-43, score-0.072]
18 I guess he was just having a bad day, or maybe his assistant gave him some bad figures. [sent-45, score-0.144]
19 Too bad they didn’t have Google back in 1994 or he could’ve looked up the numbers directly. [sent-46, score-0.072]
20 Update: I emailed the contact person at the Department of Agriculture to sort out the chicken figures, but they never got back to me. [sent-52, score-0.438]
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