April 2009
54 posts
Advertising - Never Mind What It Costs. Can I Get... →
Hi volt Antivirus →
H1N1 Swine Flu - Google Maps -- Acompanhamento ao... →
A história do GeoCities, contada por um dos... →
“At the roots of Playboy, the real message was not eroticism, but escape —...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Hearts of Men: American dreams and the flight from commitment” Garden NY: Anchor Books. Via Larry Williams, Men’s Studies from Women’s Standpoint[PDF link]
Against Furious Seasons →
“Swine flu, unlike bird flu, is able to pass from human to human contact.
The...”
– Swine influenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Ten days later, Brazilian Federal Police swooped in on 39 suspects in six states...”
– The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
“She compares the experience of being a baby with that of watching a riveting...”
– Inside the baby mind - The Boston Globe
“You have to come to some arrangement with them, as it were. You have to persuade...”
– Go Into The Story: On writing
“Although the details of ADHD’s etiology and pathophysiology are still being...”
– Meta-Analysis of the Association Between the 7-Repeat Allele of the Dopamine D4 Receptor Gene and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder — Faraone et al. 158 (7): 1052 — Am J Psychiatry
Il se passe quelque chose d’assez mystérieux quand, avec Charlie, assis entr face de moi, nous sentons que nous avons trouvé une idée pour fourguer une fois de plus un produite inutile dans la panier de la ménagère pauvre. Tout d’un coup, on se regarde avec yeux complices. La magie est accomplie: donner envie a gens qui n’ent ont les moyens d’acheter une nouvelle...
“Thomas Homer-Dixon [Homer-Dixon, Thomas (2007), “The Upside of Down:...”
– Societal collapse
“A second worry occupies rich, mostly white populations, in particular Europeans....”
– Human Population Dynamics Revisited With the Logistic Model - Marchetti, Meyer, Ausubel
“Negative demand and supply shocks both have the effect of reducing output and...”
– Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: The Bank of Canada says: “Quantitative easing if necessary, but not necessarily quantitative easing”
“Historically there are two major theories of how the brain works. One says that...”
– Metastability in the brain - Scholarpedia
“To their colleagues, workers with ADD may appear to be irresponsible,...”
– ADHD at Work: Career Advice for Job Success with Adult ADD | ADDitude - Attention Deficit Information & Resources
How to follow the literature on controversial... →
When Advertisers take our time and... →
Opt out of behavioral advertising →
“… the only coherent way of thinking about causation is in terms of...”
– TheMoneyIllusion » How did Friedman and Schwartz persuade us?
Research bits →
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Wrong trees some people are barking at →
G-Bucks - Poker - ESPN →
“The problem with hipsters seems to me the way in which they reduce the...”
– The death of the hipster
(ou, em carioquês, indji)
“I am most certainly not in denial about the economy. I do think some of the...”
– On behalf of free will
“You already own all these wonderful things. Enjoy them today.”
– R. Walker
Como reduzir seu water footprint →
How to look at billboards →
“Countries don’t really exist; they are just more or less random...”
– Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Highway 61 visited - some random thoughts on a US road trip
“At this point an IS-LM supporter might be extremely frustrated, because so far I...”
– TheMoneyIllusion » Why I don’t like IS-LM (reply to DeLong)
“Let’s face it: most scientific programming is boring. The bulk is simple array...”
– http://bayern.stanford.edu/~brant/lightning/
“The late Communist world was a world in which it was often your job to do...”
– Unqualified Reservations: America: zombie nation
“Like happy families, effective businesses are all alike. Every incompetent...”
– Unqualified Reservations: America: zombie nation
“That change, from an exclusive focus on hyperactivity and impulsive behavior to...”
– About ADHD: A Doctor Explains the Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment | ADDitude - ADHD Information & Resources
Playing forecaster (a first look at Liliput-5) →