February 2012
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“As we awaken from sleep, our consciousness undergoes a radical transformation...”
– The science of waking up, from Antonio Damasio’s excellent Self Comes to Mind – an exploration of what makes us human. (via)
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“Compared with uninfected people of the same sex, infected men were more likely...”
– How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Kathleen McAuliffe speaks with Jaroslave Flegr for The Atlantic
In fact, he says, schizophrenia did not rise in prevalence until the latter half of the 18th century, when for the first time people in Paris and London started keeping cats as pets. The so-called...
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How to Approach a Responsive Design →
alexislloyd:
A very thorough and informative discussion of the responsive design process for The Boston Globe redesign.
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“All I want in life is security and freedom. Which is the weirdest balance. But...”
– George Gurley on the Gumball 3000 Rally, writing for Vanity Fair
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January 2012
15 posts
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Laura Dekker vows never to return home →
for fear of “being taken into care” by Dutch child services for having become the youngest person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe against their wishes.
FATHER: Such a long time at sea by herself, with wind, rain and waves, she will be cured.
DAUGHTER: No, I have an appetite for more …
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The Believer spoke over the phone with Joan Didion
JD: I think it develops into a fairly stable thing over time. I think it’s not at all stable at first. But then you kind of grow into the role you have made for yourself.
BLVR: How do you gauge the distance between the role you have made for yourself—
JD: —and the real person?
BLVR: Yeah.
JD: Well, I don’t know. The real person becomes the role you have made for yourself.
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Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson Speaks Easy →
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Where the Generals Meditate … →
WIRED goes inside the Pentagon’s Alt-Medicine Mecca.
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Violet Blue on Depression, Suicide and Asperger’s →
I was always struck by the immense pressure the Stanford students felt to keep the illusion that they were doing well. We would refer to it as the Stanford Duck Syndrome: everyone gave the illusion that they were gliding elegantly across the water, but nobody could see that beneath the surface they were paddling like crazy to keep up.
My observation is that many people in tech culture...
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“He wasn’t acting, and neither was I, but at the same time it was a game.”
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
“they’re things that you learn in life.”
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive →
George Dyson on Evolution and Innovation
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The rules of a creator’s life.
creativesomething:
When will neurotypical begin to be phased out by... →
Little Boy Lost
December 2011
17 posts
“The ego delays shipping.”
– Trollope on writing as craft
Watch
The Mystery of the Canadian Whiskey Fungus |... →
(via Instapaper)
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Reflections on His Legacy →
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Linda Peng » Why I’m Learning How To Code Now →
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No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org →
Maybe “I downloaded but didn’t share” will be the new “I smoked, but didn’t inhale.”
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A man, a woman, a caper and a bourbon →
americandrink:
Clearly, his palate was getting more and more sophisticated the more of the stuff he drank.
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“Someday soon, the internet will fulfill its promise as a time machine. It will...”
– Rhizome | The Never Forgotten House
“All my films are really about America in many ways.”
– The Believer - Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam
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tumblqbrady: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a... →
On page 331 of the printed version (in chapter 25), Isaacson quotes Steve Jobs saying, of Yoko Ono, “I can see why John fell in love with her.” Again, this is may be a very minor detail, but Isaacson quickly moves on in the story. I think this is a blatant example of his incuriosity. When have you ever heard someone take Yoko’s side in the “Yoko broke up the Beatles” argument? The fact that Jobs,...
Changing How We Eat By Changing How We Run... →
My goal is to make restaurants you’d want to work at for the rest of your life.
“In this sexy environment, it somehow isn’t surprising that the safety card tells...”
– Paris Review – The Unlikely Event, Avi Steinberg
November 2011
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“Society basically tells everybody else you should stop embarrassing yourself.”
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Khoi Vinh, Sunday in the park with
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“I would also like to have the ability to send messages from one person to...”
– Patricia, Juneau, Alaska.
Project Suggestions for the Google X Lab
Rational Irrationality: Obama and Zuccotti Park:... →
(via Instapaper)
The End of Cheap Coffee →
The real issue, it would seem, is scale. Starbucks is so large that it’s not possible for every employee to be passionate about coffee. “This isn’t something that you can just do,” Babinski says of Intelligentsia’s dedication to quality.
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“And that explains why Kalra tells recruiters for major companies to stay away...”
– The Last Person
The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an... →
At the same time, because these schools tend to cultivate liberal attitudes, they leave their students in the paradoxical position of wanting to advocate on behalf of the working class while being unable to hold a simple conversation with anyone in it.
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education →
“Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurship comprehends all this and more...”
– The Entrepreneurial Generation
How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity... →