June 2009
80 posts
“[…] a list of “five open supersecrets” about bloggers:
1. Not...”
– n+1
May 2009
54 posts
Clive Granger is no more. →
Economics finally start taking costs seriously →
Technocracy →
“Critics of the evolutionary approach mention the impossibility of “blind chance”...”
– You might say that the difference between a monkey at a typewriter and a monkey at a computer is all the difference in the world.
“Mexicans don’t have a word for “teenager.” They say jovenes for “young people,”...”
– Gloria Trevi: Diablo or Angel?
What Should Count as a Mental Disorder in DSM-V? -... →
If sick men fared just as well eating and drinking and living exactly as healthy men do … there would be little need for the science [of medicine]
25 And Over « Tomato Nation →
“An amateur is full of wonder and speculation, tinkering towards the truth but...”
– The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius
Evel Knievel To Attempt Huge Leap In Logic | The... →
In a bold, never-before-attempted leap of logic, Knievel will attempt to convince a panel of renowned math experts that there exists a single largest integer to which no more can be added.
At noon, with an expected crowd of 25,000 in attendance and millions more watching at home on Fox, a helmeted, jumpsuited Knievel will begin a syllogistic process of gaining larger and larger concessions from...
Cubicles have a bad reputation as soul-crushing,... →
Cubicles have a bad reputation as soul-crushing, gray boxes wallpapered in Post-its. But they were originally designed to promote health and wellness. Cubicle pioneer Joe Schwartz explains what went wrong. Produced by Catherine Epstein.
“Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated right into...”
– The Benefits of Distraction
“Distraction has also been found to improve decision making, especially for...”
– On the information alarmageddon
“For those who know, this is the open secret: War is exciting. Sometimes I was in...”
– Esquire: I Miss Iraq. I Miss My Gun. I Miss My War.
“Não lembro de ter visto, em qualquer lugar do mundo, manifestação dos chamados...”
– Nariz Gelado: Aqui jaz…
“Both nations are grappling with the economic flu.
The United States has checked...”
– BBC - Washington diary: Political mandates
“The process is so pervasive, it gets the blame for any error — if there is...”
– Don’t just fix the mistakes — fix whatever permitted the mistake in the first place.
They Write the Right Stuff →
“Most first drafts of writing function as a way for the writer to find the...”
– How to write a blog post people love | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
Syracuse Engaged in Science Diplomacy With North... →
“I’m not really sure where I stand when it comes to my views of the medical field...”
– Jerk Ethic — Very Emergency
“It’s about infantilizing people,” she explained. “Give them free food, do their...”
– The Goog Life: how Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
“if you want to compare prices of sunscreens, you should divide the cost of the...”
– God Plays Dice: Square roots and sunscreen
“… the “metrical sciences” — econometrics for economics,...”
– (Berlinsky, 1976, “On systems analysis”, MIT Press)
“The guitar solo is of mixed descent: descending partly from the jazz solo, and...”
– Times Higher Education - Shredded bliss
“So do our bodies “farm” mitochondria?
Nah, they’ve been...”
– Lemm1w1nkz comments on Neutrophil (white blood cell) chasing down and eating a bacterium. OM NOM NOM. Science is awsome.
Bacterial Motility →
“Some scientists, he suggests, are what we might call “hill climbers”. They tend...”
– PhysicsWorld.com
“So what happens when TRANSUMERS literally are in transit? For one, the...”
– TRANSUMERS | Consumers driven by experiences
“Rather than reflexively relying on goals, argues Max Bazerman, a Harvard...”
– Why setting goals can backfire - The Boston Globe
Blast from the past: a stochastic monad in Haskell →
“For me, just getting started is the only hard thing. An object at rest tends to...”
– Fire And Motion - Joel on Software
Google Advertising Cookie Opt-out Plugin →
“My purpose here is not to write a history of the French Revolution, or even...”
– American Atheists: The Enlightenment, Freemasonry, And The Illuminati
Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas - Allison... →
Strategies for keeping your job - May. 5, 2009 →
3 motivos para não acreditar em jornalistas « →
“Media reports on modafinil were categorised into four domains of discourse:...”
– Modafinil in the media: Metaphors, medicalisation and the body