Alt Text: Taking Another Look at the Myth of the ‘Nice Guy’
Lore Sjöberg, wired.comLore Sjoberg examines the linguistic and cultural implications of the myth of the “nice guy.”
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6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money
Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.comEver scoff at someone for buying refurbished? Or found yourself dropping $40 on an HDMI cable? We all hear (and spread) tech myths to mostly harmless ends, but in some cases those myths end up costing you a lot of money. Here are a few of the wors…
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3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking Anxiety
By Deborah Grayson Riegel, fastcompany.comMark Twain once said, “There are two kinds of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.” In other words, no matter how seasoned or “under-seasoned” you are when it comes to making presentations, there is going to be some…
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Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals
By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent, telegraph.co.ukThe works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week.
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Mind reading is possible! – Salon.com
By Kathleen Taylor, salon.comAdvances in neuroimaging suggest telepathy could be on the horizon. It’s time to consider how we’d use it
“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Eric Schmidt, CE…
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#cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on Rudy Rucker
Elliot Harmon, creativecommons.orgCory Doctorow / NK Guy / CC BY-SAIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow writes about the…
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Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense)
Alan Henry, lifehacker.comThe end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably spend more…
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Big Ass Fans Haiku | Popular Science
popsci.comA cool breeze without the noise.
With its residential Haiku model, Big Ass Fans changed every convention established by a century of ceiling-fan design. That hot, loud, electromagnet-driven AC motor is now a cool, quiet, permanently…
Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings [Hardcover]
Cristina Paredes Benitez, amazon.com“Provides a fine survey for architects, designers, and homeowners alike.” (The Midwest Book Review )
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Phyllis Richardson is an architecture and design writer who has publish…
The Year’s Best Infographics
By Emily Elert, popsci.comThe results are in from Information is Beautiful’s first annual award ceremony
The design firm Information is Beautiful has announced winners of the inaugural Information Awards Inspired by Kantar competition. Prizes went to …
Why fiction is good for you – Boston.com.
New studies show that in fact a steady diet including some fiction is good for us and results in more effective behavior change and learning than non-fiction. This is because of cognitive “shields” we put up when reading non-fiction. Also fiction acts as a social glue to hold cultures together according to anthropologists. And it in general makes us more empathetic and thoughtful.
He was forced to study biochemistry in college, then attempted to obtain his MA in anthropology however his thesis was rejected as too far out. later when he published books, U Chicago gave him the MA, citing his anthropological style of writing! The world is poorer without him.
The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere.
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Best email spoof detector in rule the web. Before you forward that so-called “true” story that landed in your inbox this morning to everyone in your address book, you better check Snopes.
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