Month: August 2016
August 10, 2016
August 9, 2016
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Looking away from the falls
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I’m mean seriously
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Iceland assumes you know where to walk and where NOT to walk.
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Hello Iceland
August 8, 2016
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Ladies, have you ever made a mixtape for a guy/girl you liked?
Or is this just a guy thing?
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What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
August 7, 2016
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We reviewed 60 studies on what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found.
Part 1: We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found.
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Do Your Friends Actually Like You?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/do-your-friends-actually-like-you.html
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August 6, 2016
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1. Babysitter
2. Landscaping Hand
3. Warehouse Worker
4. Pizza Delivery Guy
5. Factory Worker
6. DJ
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The Real History of Rock and Roll
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-elvic-oracle
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“Speak, Memory” by Oliver Sacks:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/21/speak-memory/
August 5, 2016
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An Algorithm For An Automated Meritocracy at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
A Guest Post by Bennett Haselton A 2006 study by Matthew Salganik and his co-researchers at Princeton suggests that a huge amount of effort is wasted in many different areas of human endeavor, and the resulting outcomes are far less than optimal — but that there is a simple algorithm that could fix…
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With technology and pharmaceuticals dominating our reality, how do we define “natural” human effort in sports?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/magic-blood-and-carbon-fiber-legs-at-the-brave-new-olympics/
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What Is a Robot?
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/what-is-a-human/473166/
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How risk factors drive medical over-treatment:
http://aeon.co/magazine/health/is-preventive-medicine-its-own-health-risk/
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The Evolution of an Accidental Meme:
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LOVEBOT
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A new way to think about medical treatments:
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/number-needed-to-treat/
August 4, 2016
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Why Are We So Fat? The Multimillion-Dollar Scientific Quest to Find Out
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/what-makes-us-fat/
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This Is Where Your Childhood Memories Went
http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went
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How to Be Polite
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What Is Public?