Month: December 2013
December 7, 2013
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Huh. Turns out I’ve been eating oranges wrong.
http://jewelpie.com/easy-way-to-peel-mandarin-oranges/
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Creatures of Coherence: Why We’re So Obsessed With Causation –
658 Flares Filament.io Made with Flare More Info ‘> 658 Flares × Editor’s Note : This post originally appeared on RealClearScience , a Pacific Standard partner site. “We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical…
December 6, 2013
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♫ “Money trees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel.” ♫
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Just means it’s half-eaten when it arrives. RT @zoeschafer: got an email from dominos and the subject was “last change to get 50% off pizza”
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Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraud – NYTimes.com
Zeelenberg, a stocky man with a shaved head, led Stapel into his living room. “What’s up?” Stapel asked, settling onto a couch. Two graduate students had made an accusation, Zeelenberg explained. His eyes began to fill with tears. “They suspect you have been committing research fraud.” Stapel was an…
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For Ron at the Xmas party who shared his story of sneaking in to a Harry James concert during WWII:
December 5, 2013
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Now is that “SUE’S CRUZ” or “SUE SCRUZ”? pic.twitter.com/Fk2RYG29Ww
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Rolf Zwaan: Social Priming: In Theory
You are walking into a room. There is a man sitting behind atable. You sit down across from him. The man sits higher than you, which makesyou feel relatively powerless. But he gives you a mug of hot coffee. The warmmug makes you like the man a little more. You warm to him so to speak. He asks you…
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Conciseness is the first thing to go when I’m burned out.
December 4, 2013
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I barely care about Rob Ford now that he’s lost real power.
He’s just another trashy celebrity on a downward spiral.
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Katie Couric encouraging anti-vaxxer bullshit that will REALLY ACTUALLY KILL PEOPLE:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/12/04/katie_couric_and_the_hpv_vaccine_the_journalist_throws_in_with_the_anti.html
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Soon babies will be sending push notifications:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3019806/the-sproutling-why-a-fitbit-for-babies-might-be-brilliant?partner=rss
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Listening to the classic “Police and Thieves” album to mark the passing of Junior Murvin.
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Giorgio Moroder remixes and adds vocoder to Haim’s “Forever”:
https://soundcloud.com/giorgiomoroder2/haim-forever-giorgio-moroder
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DJ Earworm’s 2013 Pop mash-up video is out:
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Tsarnaevs and Boston bombings: Like most terrorists, they were hapless and disorganized. – Slate Magazine
Tamerlan (left) and Dzhokhar Tsarev are seen in handout photos presented during an FBI news conference in Boston, April 18, 2013. Photo handout from FBI / Reuters Between Sept. 12, 2001, and last Monday, some 52 cases came to light in which the United States itself has been, or apparently has been,…
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“The Sugar Plum Wrecking Ball”
December 3, 2013
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Is it too early in the holiday season to watch “Die Hard”?
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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
The password is: pr1vacy1sd3ad http://t.co/QstgjRWz
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Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History:
http://www.garynorth.com/public/11828.cfm?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer5a099&utm_medium=twitter
December 2, 2013
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Joho the Blog » Are brands people, my friends?
Joho the BlogAre brands people, my friends? – Joho the Blog Hard to Read? Style 1 Style 2 Default Toggle Sidebar Are brands people, my friends? Posted on:: March 7th, 2013 The always thoughtful Terry Heaton [twitter: TerryHeaton ] has posted a provocative thesis, which is expressed in the post’s…
December 1, 2013
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How Brands Can Behave as People (And Why They Should) – Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog
Something new in terms of business behavior took place when the lights went out at the Superbowl this year. Oreo and Audi responded in the moment in clever and humorous ways that mimicked the behavior of ordinary viewers, who had taken to Twitter to join the conversation about the power outage. It…