Kuhn 2

As promised, here's some guidance for your reading of "What Are Scientific Revolutions?" a Thomas Kuhn essay that Google Books is giving you in its entirety here, running uninterrupted from p. 13 to p. 32, at least for the time being (though my experience with Google Books is that what pages it gives you can change without warning). First, a brief explanation of why I'm interested in Kuhn in the first place (beyond the fact that I think this sort of thing is fun).

( Why Kuhn? )

( paradigms )

Another Year In America January 22, 2009

Same top five in the same order as last week; outside the top ten there's a bit of movement from PCDs, "Dead And Gone," Cook, and Ne-Yo; Eminem rockets into the top eighty; and a bunch of country guys called Dierks and Toby and Blake and Alan lay around between forty-one to fifty as they've been doing for a while now. Oh yeah, and an actual new track sashays in at 37 with a bullet:

( Beyoncé )