Friday, May 28, 2010

Chess Game of the Day

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Veselin Topalov vs Viswanathan Anand Related: Chess and mixed strategies Another way to limit draws in chess Chess, football and the ...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Creative Gardening Ideas

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Growing Vegetables Upside Down Upside-down gardening, primarily of leggy crops like tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, is more common partly b...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Future Shock

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“ What the statistics point to is a rise in Facebook, a decline in blogging, and before that, a decline in personal Web pages. The trend is ...

Artist of the Day- Tsilli Pines

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According to Pines , the piece she created for this issue of the magazine, above, titled, " Corporations ," isn't just about t...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

How much do you think the following is worth?

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In an overflowing salesroom at Christie’s, six bidders vied for “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” which depicts the artist’s mistress Marie-Thé...
Saturday, May 1, 2010

Education and Economics

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What do you think of the following program at Teacher's College, Columbia University? This program is intended for individuals who want ...
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Cool Minimalist Hotels

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The Business Model ; “In the old days, the bigger the space in a hotel, the more luxury you had,” said Simon Woodroffe, the chain’s founder....
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Sex, Bombs & Burgers

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The talk will focus on the main theme of the book , which is how the military, porn and food industries have been the biggest drivers of tec...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Cultural Sex Fact of the Day

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Kissing as part of sexual foreplay is common in the West but virtually unknown in other parts of the world (Ford & Beach, 1965). There ...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Is Marriage good for you?

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Contemporary studies, for instance, have shown that married people are less likely to get pneumonia, have surgery, develop cancer or have he...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Artist of the Day- Matthew Willey, 'Not a day without a line'

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Mr. Willey , who grew up in Virginia and Massachusetts and received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the School of the Museum of Fine A...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Photo Blog of the Day- Island Hopper's Diary

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via Island Hopper's Diary
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Why humans sing?

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According to David Attenborough ; It's tempting to think that human beings very early in their history used music in a similar way. And ...
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Cool and Creative Assorted

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Top 45 Creative Anti-Smoking Advertisements Google Calendar's Smart Rescheduler: Great for Sneaky Secretaries or Lazy People The Design ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Art podcast of the Day- Edvard Munch

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From BBCs In Our Time ; First exhibited in 1893 in Berlin, The Scream was the culmination of Munch's magnum opus, a series of paintings...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

LOGICOMIX

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Christos Papadimitriou at Google Related; Logicomix Algorithm and Blues

The Survey- The Mop Wars

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A review of effectiveness of mops from NYT; Cas abella Swivel-It Roller Mop / Eclipse / O Cedar Microfiber Cloth Mop / Smart Mop / Swiffe...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The purpose of architecture in cities?

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Like many of his generation — Mr. Nouvel is 64 — he retains a stubborn, some might say naïve, belief that architecture should make us ale...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

If you’ve ever had a child, we want to know about your experience.

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Please help Betsey and Wolfers by doing the survey .
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Chutes and Ladders in Harlem

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A highly recommended podcast from EconTalk with Katherine Newman ,a sociologist at Princeton.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Random Artists

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Source: NYT Andresen, Charles ; I stumbled upon my method of “throw painting” in 1987 while still a student of figurative art. Plopping vari...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Schelling Quote- The Very Basics of Game Theory

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"If I go downstairs to investigate a noise at night, with a gun in my hand, and find myself face to face with a burglar who has a gun i...
Friday, March 5, 2010

I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.

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Even Presidents' needs cleaners- public management lessons from Pulp Fiction. In his memoir Speech-less, Matt Latimer , a speechwriter f...

The Revenge of the Artist

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Ion Barladeanu ; "I feel as if I have been born again," he said, as some of France's leading collectors and curators jostled f...

Random Science Blogs

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Thoughtful Animal The Loom Maxwell Demon Maths Students Read

Big Thinkers from Yahoo- The Economists

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Richard Thaler Kenneth Arrow, "Facing a Long and Uncertain Future" Al Roth, "What Have We Learned from Market Design" P...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Daniel Kahneman on Happiness

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Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Blind Artist of the Day- John Bramblitt

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John Bramblitt didn’t start painting until he lost his sight. It was a difficult time. Bramblitt was in his late 20’s and unaware that his ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How Artists Think- 'they are epiphany machines'

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Picaso's method ; "I have never made trials or experiments. Whenever I had something to say, I have said it in the manner in which ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

All You Need is a Nudge

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Maths Podcast of the Day

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Kurt Gödel and the limits of mathematics
Friday, February 19, 2010

Make Games Not War

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A great book- highly recommended; The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses Free Chapters; Chapter 6: The game begins with an idea. Chapt...

How to Bargain with the Devil

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BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL: When to Negotiate, When to Fight Robert Mnookin
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Book Recommendation

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In an essay in his just-published Natural Experiments of History , Jared Diamond puts the question the way you want it to be asked – compara...

Niche Design

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He has hewed to the old decorating dictum that says that the more stuff you put in a room (albeit artfully arranged stuff), the bigger it se...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Desks of Economists Series

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Guess who? Related: Economists who Fish
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

In Search of Memory

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Eric R. Kandel. In Search of Memory. The Emergence of a New Science of Mind . Related:
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Oh Haiti

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Jared Diamond's Haiti story One Island, Two Worlds Why is Haiti so poor? Too Small to Fail: Developing Haiti’s Economy The Help That Hai...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

People to Watch in 2010- Atul Gawande

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Dr. Atul Gawande - interview on C-SPAN Checklist Reduces Deaths in Surgery The Unlikely Writer A Hospital How-To Guide That Mother Would L...

Photo of the Day

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Source: 36 Hours in New York City Related: The 31 Places to Go in 2010 - Sri Lanka tops the list
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Assorted

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Natural Gas and Israel’s Energy Future: Planning Amid Deep Uncertainty Corruption = monopoly + discretion - accountability Samuel Brittan - ...
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Socioeconomics

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Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

One Author to read 2010- Orhan Pamuk

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Pamuk’s appeal has not been lost on politicians. Daniel Cohn-Bendit has credited Pamuk with helping him to ‘understand the importance of Tur...

David Brooks favorite blogs

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Fortunately there are a few Web sites that provide daily links to the best that is thought and said. Arts and Letters Daily is the center o...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Eat, Pray Love

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Elizabeth Gilbert at Google
Monday, December 28, 2009

When things go wrong in project managment!

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I'm starting to become a big fan of Scott Berkun ; 1. Calm down . Nothing makes a situation worse than basing your actions on fear, ange...
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Assorted Cool blogs

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DesignBoom Typefiend
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Confessions of a Public Speaker- recommended by Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen recommends: Scott Berkun , Confessions of a Public Speaker . If you get only one good tip from this book, it's worth it.
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Using Obituaries in Teaching- The Rain Man is dead!

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Kim Peek possesses one of the most extraordinary memories ever recorded. Until we can explain his abilities, we cannot pretend to understand...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Invisible Hand for Energy Supply and Demand (for the body)

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Dr. Edwin G. Krebs , who shared a Nobel Prize in 1992 for discovering a crucial bodily process that helps govern the movement of muscles, th...