Monday, December 5, 2011

Getting beyond the OK Plataues with 'deliberate practice'

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When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend . In...

Advice of the Day- We're on Borrowed Time

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  Charles Wheelan commencement talk; What it means for you, and what I’ve found to be one the great challenges of adulthood, is balanc...
Friday, December 2, 2011

The best iPad Notebook?

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What are good iPad applications for taking notes? Clockwork Notebook Note Taker HD
Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Mind's Eye

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" The Mind's Eye. " Dr. Sacks focuses on creative people who have learned to compensate for potentially devastating disabi...

Book Quote of the Day

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It is no tragedy to think of the most successful people in any field as superheroes. But it is a tragedy when a belief in the judgment ...

People to Watch- David Berlinski

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He is the author of numerous books, including The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and It Scientific Pretensions (Crown Forum, 2008; Basic Books...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Cool Alarm Clocks for iPhone

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The Best Alarm Clock App for iPhone
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Assorted Tools

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Wikisummarizer Context Discovery Inc
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Measures of economic well-being in UK

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PK at Workd Bank

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Personal Kanban at the World Bank - Small Team Rapid Development View more presentations from Jim Benson Just finished the book, Per...

Personal Kanban

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Personal Kanban 101 View more presentations from Jim Benson
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

A book worth thinking and reading

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Here's Tyler Cowen's review ; When doing the statistics, one key issue is how to measure violence. Pinker often favors “per capit...

A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete

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The Long Run is an emotional and incredibly honest story about Matt's determination to fight through fear, despair, loneliness, and in...

Photo of the Day

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Pictured: H. & S.J. Rowan, Secondhand Bookshop, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset "Mr Rowan has been in this part of Bournemouth f...
Friday, October 7, 2011

The Education of Millionaires

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Learn to Invest in Yourself .” Bootstrapping your education involves getting on solid footing financially, and then making incremental inv...

Money Ball

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Waiting for Amazon's Kindle Tablet

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Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It. ; Again, the device is a 7-inch tablet with a capacitive touch screen. I...

Art of the Day

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“Immaculee,” Numero , 2007
Friday, September 23, 2011

Marketers target Men

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Marketers are also devoting much more effort to marketing to men—or, as Mr Lindstrom puts it, getting men to shop like women. In 1995 on...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Highly Recommended Podcast- Expert Prediction

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The Folly of Prediction TETLOCK: That experts thought they knew more than they knew.That there was a systematic gap between subjectiv...

Neuroscience of Personality and Love Therapy

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Radiance House Social Bot Dario Nardi Check out their iPhone apps .

Steven Levitt on Love

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Chart of the Day- STDs in US

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Google Infographic

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From Smashing Apps

Random Blog- Logic is Variable

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From the Pakistani blog - A phrase written on sand by a small boy who lost his parents in flood," Dear River, I will never forgive yo...

Marketing Tips for Amazon

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Have requested a lot of books to be available in Kindle- Amazon never seems to inform when that book is available on Kindle.
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Free Reads from Kindle

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Maths for Grownups Today is your lucky day. Actually, this week is your lucky week! Until Friday, September 10, you can download Math fo...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Female adolescent's sexual decision-making

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What Could You Do? is a theory-based interactive DVD designed to educate young women about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as HIV/...

Bitcoinomics

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Is gambling the future of Bitcoin- from the comments to James Surowiecki's column on Bitcoin; I'm the CEO of StrikeSapphire.com ,...

Three Penny Review- Cover Art

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Imogen Cunningham, Coffee Gallery, 1960
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Bitcoin vs PayPal

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Paypal and other online payment services are reliant on existing financial institutions to work. Your account is generally tied to a credit...

Should I wait for the Amazon Tablet

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Publishing News: Amazon and the sub-$300 tablet

FT has lunch with Bill Bratton

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In the case of the British police , he thinks reform needs to incorporate several strands. First, he believes that police forces need plent...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Assorted Poetry Blogs

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BLOODAXE BLOGS Guardian on Poetry The Best American Poetry Verse

Samuel Menashe passed away

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Samuel Menashe in Ireland, writing one of his short poems in the sand: ' Pity us / By the sea / On the sands / So briefly ' More ...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Assorted Movie Blogs

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the Film Experience The Movie Digest Movies with Abe Zola's Movie Pic's
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Assorted Mating Science

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Ballistic penises and corkscrew vaginas – the sexual battles of ducks Bad News for Roosters: If You Aren’t King of the Henhouse, Your Eja...

The Biggest Biometric Project in World

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Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID ; The unprecedented scale of Aadhaar’s data will make managing it extraordinaril...

Maths Podcast of the Day - A short history of symmetry

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Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry by Ian Stewart Related: Maths Book Recommendations

A Mathematician tried moving a table

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William Feller was a probability theorist at Princeton University. One day he and his wife wanted to move a large table from one room of th...

When two mathematicians, an anthropologist and a criminologist meet

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In July the Santa Cruz Police Department began experimenting with an interesting bit of software developed by scientists at Santa Clara Univ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Assorted Art and Design Blogs

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The World's Best Ever Deanna Templeton buzzmuseaum Gear Petrol Unscathed Corpse Sisilia Paring
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Take an IT Course from Stanford for Free

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Introduction to Databases and more
Friday, August 26, 2011

The Age of Erotic Capital? Legal Protection for the Ugly?

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over a lifetime and assuming today’s mean wages, a handsome worker in America might on average make $230,000 more than a very plain one . T...

The Next Catastrophe-Charles B. Perrow

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Are you Normal?

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Attraction and feelings of desire drive our libidos, but Vivienne Parry asks what is "normal" . Is there such thing as a normal...

Environmentalists will be happy

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Recycyling Sex Toys
Sunday, August 7, 2011

What do Blind Mathematicians Study

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I was surprised to learn that the majority work in geometry, supposedly the most ‘visual’ discipline , and fascinated to learn that they gen...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Ramadan begins- Why Do We Fast?

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Source: Horn of Africa: on the brink of a humanitarian crisis , Ramadan begins

The Art of Listening- RASA

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Highly recommended talk by Julian Treasure (rating 5 out of 5); RASA- Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask Silence Help them to experi...