25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions
Remember, these questions have no right or wrong answers. Because asking the right questions is the answer. via 25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking …
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Paulina is definitely becoming one of my favorite bloggers. Her honesty-without-meanness is refreshing. For a supermodel, how you look is certainly something …
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While I think the author is a wee bit cavalier with modern bullying, that doesn’t invalidate the premise. I do think that …
Read more...It’s a Conspiracy! NASA Uses Photoshop! (Discovery News)
I grew up immersed in photos from various JPL planetary probes (having a father working in aerospace, and all). Believe me…you’d rather …
Read more...Jeff’s Take On His Platonic Friendship With Juliet (Slate)
Some people complain that only women talk about platonic friendships and that men are, essentially, faking it. Well, it ain’t always so. …
Read more...Why the Very Concept of Male-Female Friendship Makes People Uncomfortable (Slate)
It was famously said in the movie, When Harry Met Sally: Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be …
Read more...5 Scientific Reasons Powerful People Will Always Suck | Cracked.com
It’s so comforting to read this with elections about a month away. But it does help explain why voters are almost always …
Read more...Seattle Storm’s Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson are winning combination – ESPN
For those people who didn’t get to see the Chris and Martina competitors-as-friends back in the day, look to Sue Bird and …
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But if the rich don’t get richer, how are we to expect the poor to get poorer? Thank goodness we bailed them …
Read more...CEOs Lay Off Thousands, Rake in Millions | msnbc.com
“What’s clear here is that CEOs who slash thousands of jobs certainly aren’t tightening their belts,” via CEOs lay off thousands, rake …
Read more...The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama (The New Yorker)
There’s a difference between enlightened self-interest and simply self-interest. It seems that for the Kochs, the line between the two is heavy …
Read more...Do-gooders get voted off island first: People don’t really like unselfish colleagues, psychologists find
This explains a lot about my life. It also explains some of the short-comings of society in general. Do-gooders get voted off …
Read more...Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything (Wired)
Thirty-five years ago, Fred Brooks wrote a small technical book, The Mythical Man-Month, which he named after the flawed assumption that more …
Read more...Add Salt As Required: The Recipe For Fresh Water (New Scientist)
One of the keys for the survival of the over-stocked human population is potable water. Without that, the rest is academic. On …
Read more...The Crime of the Century: What BP and the US Government Don’t Want You to Know, Part I (Huffington Post)
If even only part of this is true, I hope the administration got a tanker full of SCOTUS-approved re-election contributions for selling …
Read more...Proposition 8, Health Care Reform – Unconstitutional? | The Faster Times
The thing that annoys me most about many tea-bag-partiers isn’t so much that they disagree–honest debate is expected, but that they so …
Read more...Four Deformations of the Apocalypse – NYTimes.com
David Stockman, a director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, points a well-aimed finger at his own …
Read more...Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in on th Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal – Fifth & Main
This is potentially the game-changing issue of the information age. It can seem like tech esoterica, but in this inter-connected world, it’s …
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