Hacker News
- Should People Be Paid to Stay Healthy? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/should-people-be-paid-to-stay-healthy/?hp= 2 comments
- Schneier on Times Square http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/times-square-bombs-and-big-crowds/#bruce 22 comments
- Getting rid of bad teachers http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/getting-rid-of-bad-teachers/ 33 comments
- Do School Libraries Need Books? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/do-school-libraries-need-books/ 14 comments
- Does the brain like ebooks? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/ 14 comments
- The Advanced Placement Juggernaut http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/the-advanced-placement-juggernaut/ 16 comments
- If Marijuana Is Legal, Will Addiction Rise? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/if-marijuana-is-legal-will-addiction-rise/ 27 comments
- What Is a Master’s Degree Worth? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/what-is-a-masters-degree-worth/ 34 comments
- The Chinese Language, Ever Evolving http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/chinese-language-ever-evolving/ 3 comments
- A fascinating look at why the largest country in the world can't find eleven players good enough to qualify for the World Cup http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/where-are-chinas-soccer-stars/?ref=sports 6 comments soccer
- Anyone want to take a break for a minute and enjoy some rational discussion about the Gaza blockade? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/rethinking-the-gaza-blockade/?hp 7 comments worldnews
- Why Do Educated People Use Bad Words? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/why-do-educated-people-use-bad-words/ 17 comments linguistics
- There are more than 1,700 people in the United States serving sentences of life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles. No other nation has even a single person serving such a sentence. http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/young-offenders-locked-up-for-life/ 31 comments politics
- Historians’ Advice for Dick Cheney [my advice: don't leave the country if you don't want to be arrested for war crimes] http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/historians-advice-for-dick-cheney/ 9 comments history
- Should driving while using a cell phone, handheld or hands-free, be illegal? Here's a summary of many reasonable viewpoints that made me reconsider my habits. http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/should-cellphone-use-by-drivers-be-illegal/ 33 comments reddit.com
- Drug-legalizing police chief knocks some prohibitionist skulls in NYT debate on marijuana http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/if-marijuana-is-legal-will-addiction-rise/ 9 comments reddit.com
- When they torture, they call it "enhanced interrogation." When they send someone to be tortured elsewhere, they call it "extraordinary rendition." Now some legal commentators are endorsing what they call "preventative detention." Can you guess what it means? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/obamas-blueprint-and-americas-enemies/?hp 3 comments politics
- Former S&L Prosecutor: "The Federal Reserve sent 180 examiners for eight weeks into the 19 biggest banks. A team of that size should be able to examine the asset quality of two or three massive banks with plain vanilla assets." http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/grading-the-banks-stress-test/ 3 comments business
- NYT's Room for Debate: 'Do We Need Foreign Technology Workers?' http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/do-we-need-foreign-technology-workers/#more-2989 5 comments technology
- The Untouchables: Certain feats in sports — like the rate at which basketball players make free throws – don’t seem to get any easier with time. Which records will be hard, and maybe impossible, to break? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/let-the-record-be-unbroken/ 21 comments sports
- A Glimmer of Hope? Obama to take a hard line on excessive compensation in any further bailouts! http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/bonuses-for-bad-performance/?hp 35 comments business