Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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

Three Penny Review- Cover Art

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Imogen Cunningham, Coffee Gallery, 1960
Friday, February 18, 2011

Loaning Electronic Books

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Interesting feature on Amazon- I've always thought one disadvantage of electronic books is that you can't share a good book with you...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

From one of may favorite authors

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Learn from Bees

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In the final chapter , Seeley suggests five lessons we could learn from bees. • Compose a decision-making group of individuals with shared...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Book Cover Art - Sex at Dawn - and thoughts for reflection

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"Researchers have confirmed what most men already know: men tend to get turned on by images depicting an environment in which sperm com...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Book Cover Art

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PROOFINESS -The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception By Charles Seife. Book reviews- by John Allen Paulos , STEVEN STROGATZ ,
Friday, September 10, 2010

The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

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BURSTS: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do from Authors at Google. Related: Book Blog ; What exactly is a burst? ALB: A burst ...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Effective Habits of Ernest Gellner - 'cold intellectual honesty'

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A review of another Gellner biography ; In common with so many other émigrés, Gellner served in the war (in his case in a Czechoslovak arm...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Book Cover Art- 4 Fish

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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food . By Paul Greenberg The famous story of the demise of Newfoundland’s cod is a parable of all ...

Cognitive Surplus

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cshirky

The Facebook Effect

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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World . By David Kirkpatrick In the early days Mr Zuckerberg c...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Book Cover Art

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Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities Lucien Karpik