Jared Dunn

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Jared Dunn, 10-19-03

I'm 29. I live in Boston and work as a neuroscience lab manager for one of the local mega-research universities. I'm originally from Central Illinois, and went to school around there at the University of Illinois, U/C. I'm interested in pretty much everything, which is simultaneously my greatest strength and weakness. I also do freelance design and writing/editing work. If you have a worthy cause, I might even do it for free.

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The Guardian | The Marathon is Easy. There are no Lions: Six Maasai warriors will run the London Marathon tomorrow to raise money for a well in their village. Isaya, 24, is their chief. This is a diary of his week in London, the first time he has left Tanzania

Rolling Stone | Benjamin Wallace-Wells | How America Lost the War on Drugs: After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure. (A must read, though this is really not much new if you have been paying attention.)

The Let's Make a Deal Problem: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick door #1, & the host, who knows what's behind the other doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He then says to you, Do you want to pick door #2? Is it to your advantage to switch?

The Sietch Blog | Wanna See What Gold Atoms Look Like?: "Hey what did you do today?" *pause* "Oh I ran some errands, then spent the rest of the day staring raptly at the building blocks of matter!!!"

How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs: Of all the countless ways to approximate the most prolific irrational number in the universe, there are none quite as interesting or as surprisingly satisfying as throwing perfectly good food around your kitchen.

The Prime Number Shitting Bear: Back from the dead, as foretold by the prophets!

Dr. Richard Chopp. Urologist: THERE?S MORE VASECTOMIES TO BE DONE!

The Best of All Games: John Rawls on the perfection in symmetry, design, and proportion of baseball as a game.

Atlantic Monthly | James Fallows | The Connection Has Been Reset: China's Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here?s why it?s so effective anyway.

Yanksfan Soxfan | A New Manny, An Old Manny: Excellent and touching set of articles from the NYT archives on Manny Ramirez when he was a high school player in the Bronx.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | Beyond Vietnam: King's towering, radical, fearless sermon against the Vietnam War. Excellent tonic to the posthumous conservative attempts to turn him into meek Santa Claus. Recall that most of these same people thought he was the most dangerous man alive at the time.

Garfield Minus Garfield: Remove Garfield from the eponymous comic, and it suddenly turns into a grey tableau of Beckettesque emptiness and despair. Awesome.

41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments: We should all pity the science teacher, for this is what they deal with on a daily basis.

Aerospaceweb.org | Broken Arrow Nuclear Weapon Accidents: It is estimated that over 50 nuclear warheads have been lost in the world's oceans following aircraft or naval accidents. Another 26 nuclear reactors from ships and submarines have also been lost or deliberately dumped at sea.

David Sirota | The New Permanent Campaign: "Lots of folks want to do community service but are not political," says Erin Egan, who runs the Colorado branch of Democrats Work. "But when they volunteer with us they see the Democratic Party's values and often become committed political volunteers."

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