August 2009
41 posts
Motivational Posters: Ernest Hemingway Edition →
I admittedly didn’t know much about Ernest Hemingway beyond his fine works of literature until I read Chris Hutcheson’s article, “The Hemingway You Didn’t Know: Papa’s Adventures.”…
“The IKEA catalogue is the world’s third most printed publication (next to...”
– IKEA says goodbye to Futura: idsgn (a design blog)
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces →
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Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Je6Dko6mm4 “How to live in a city”
A tantalizing 10-minute clip of an hour-long video called The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
Some are for you, some are for me, but more are... →
The @shitmydadsays Twitter account is written by someone who lives with his 73-year-old dad and “writes down shit that he says”. A sampling of recent posts: Your brother brought his baby over…
www.larkhilltipis.co.uk →
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From a rather bargainous £60 a night for a 4-berth yurt or tipi.
Larkhill is a family home and a smallholding of 20 acres in Carmarthenshire, west Wales. The yurts are located…
Unconventional, Entrepreneurial Lives and the... →
I think about entrepreneurship in broad terms — as more a life idea than a business one. Jim Collins has said that people who lead entrepreneurial lives — in my book I call them…
How to Apologize Like a Man →
Source: Life
“I’m sorry.” Two simple words and yet two of the hardest to say. We easily utter them in response to trivial matters like accidentally jostling a stranger on the subway…
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Monday Master Class:... →
1. The writers work in the morning. They often start very early in the morning. 2. Five out of ten of the writers described a little ritual before starting their morning writing. A surprising number…
Bill Maher: New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart... →
On the eve of the Iraq War, 69% of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11. Four years later, 34% still did.
[…]Polls show that a majority of Americans cannot name a single branch of government, or explain what the Bill of Rights is. 24% could not name the country America fought in the Revolutionary War. More than two-thirds of Americans don’t know what’s in...
“If people over 65 in each state made the laws, 0 states would have gay marriage;...”
– Ryan Sager - Neuroworld – The Gay Gap - True/Slant
“Book lovers never go to bed alone”
– bookshelves.tumblr.com
Enjoy Homemade Butter in Less Than Five Minutes →
Homemade butter is vastly superior to its store-bought equivalent, but nobody wants to pull out or buy a butter churn. This churn-free method makes it worthwhile, producing the kitchen staple…
BBC NEWS | England | Berkshire | Fat Duck wins... →
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The tasting menu includes a course called Sound of the Sea, during which the diner eats smoked fish, edible “sand” and “seaweed” while listening to seagulls on an iPod. Good Food…
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Found: first amino acid on a comet - space - 17... →
An amino acid has been found on a comet for the first time, a new analysis of samples from NASA’s Stardust mission reveals. The discovery confirms that some of the building blocks of life were…
Wallace, Teacher | n+1 →
He was always trying to impart the importance of communication, of its precision. The only way you can communicate at a high level, he taught, is to be conscious of everything you write—every comma,…
DFW 1962 - 2008 | n+1 - by Benjamin Kunkel →
What novelistic introspection ultimately discovers is not the local truth of some neurasthenic named Marcel or depressed person named Dave. At the bottom of the self is not the self. Common truth is…
40 Superb Psychology Blogs | PsyBlog →
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Girlfriend Keeper App →
bahahahah, hilarious autoresponder iphone-app for girlfriends. “”Did you know we started dating 37 days and 8 hours ago?”“ Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by ramitsethi to …
Eastman Kodak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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Classic advice for choosing a brand name: 1) Short 2) Cannot be mispronounced 3) Unique and cannot be associated with anything else
The letter “K” had been a favorite of Eastman’s,…
Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the... →
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Great review of a meal at El Bulli, done in comic book style. Voted the best restaurant in the world many times in a row, over 2m people compete annually for 8k spots.
Dinner at…
Privacy Salience and Social Networking Sites →
Privacy could become a competitive feature of social networking sites, suggests Bruce Schneier in an article that looks at the interesting topic of privacy salience: the suggestion that privacy…
Absolute and Relative Poverty →
I’ve already mentioned the World Bank’s startling definition of extreme poverty: $1.25, adjusted for PPP. This is what is known as absolute poverty and it is seldom used by…
The Five Whys →
Five Whys is “a question-asking method used to explore the cause/effect relationships underlying a particular problem. Ultimately, the goal of applying the 5 Whys method is to determine a root…
The Problem with Happiness Research →
Talking of happiness, University of California philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel discusses the problem with the self-reporting of happiness for research purposes.
If the intervention is…
The Universality of Happiness →
Or not.
Research looking at how different cultures (specifically, Americans and Japanese) perceive the concept of happiness has shown that it’s not a universal constant, at least in terms of…
Graduating into the Recession and What Next →
For recent graduates, those in their early 20’s and, well, almost everyone else, the job market at the moment is overwhelming bad. There’s hope, of course, and this interview between recent graduate…
The Point of Economists →
Following Queen Elizabeth’s question to the economists—Why did no one see the crisis coming?—the Financial Times goes one further asking, What is the point of economists?
If the economics…
Emails Predicting Organisational Collapse →
Regardless of content, the email patterns inside organisations may be able to predict approaching crises. This is the conclusion of a study looking at how the communication between Enron…
The Agri-Intellectuals and the Omnivore’s Delusion →
Playing on the title of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Missouri farmer Blake Hurst pens an extremely well argued and reasoned response to the criticisms the ‘agri-intellectuals’…
The ‘Benefits’ of Organic →
After analysing all available evidence from the past 50 years, a study commissioned by the UK government’s Food Standards Agency has come to the conclusion that organic food is no healthier (in…
Determination, Long-Terms Goals, Success →
Determination and long-term goal-setting may be more contributory to success than intelligence, suggests research being conducted by Angela Duckworth and her contemporaries.
These two traits…
Steve Jobs and Circular Visualisations (Not Just... →
Pie charts have been having a bad time of it lately* and I can’t see things improving anytime soon.
In one of the better articles looking at this humble chart, Brian Suda notes not only at…
Context and Aesthetic Judgements →
It’s no surprise that perceived context is important in influencing people’s decisions. A recent experiment has shown that people rate pictures as more aesthetically pleasing (and actually…
To Breastfeed or Not →
In governmental and popular literature breastfeeding is praised as being the optimum solution to infant feeding. The Wikipedia article, for instance, is extensive and well-cited suggesting the…
The Advantage of Female Executives →
Of the top 500 public US companies, firms with women in senior management performed 18 to 69 percent better in terms of profitability than the median companies in their industries. Not only…
Technology in the Classroom →
Teachers are using technology in the classroom as a crutch, rather than a tool to increase their quality of teaching, proposes José A. Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, and this is why…