October 2011
3 posts
Petition to Google: don't kill Google Reader →
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How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying... →
You’ve likely heard that body language accounts for up to 55% of how we communicate, but reading non-verbal cues isn’t just about broad strokes. The same gesture can indicate a…
“Ladder of achievement:
100% - I did.
90% - I will.
80% - I can.
70% - I...”
September 2011
9 posts
The Awesome Power of Two Words →
“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.” – Senator Robert F. Kennedy
The working of the human mind naturally lends itself to…
The 6 killer apps of prosperity: Niall Ferguson on... →
Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half…
Reduce Diapers with Elimination Communication... →
Elimination communication claims that parents can mostly if not completely eliminate diapers by instead learning to predict when the baby needs to go and inviting the baby to urinate…
Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat.
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August 2011
3 posts
How to Discover New Music in the Post-MP3 Age... →
You may have listened to a lot of music when you were younger, but between work, social requirements, and paying the bills, the joy of discovering new music is one of those things…
Air Swimmers - Awesome RC Flying Shark and... →
I favorited a YouTube video: Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the water … Incredible remote controlled flying fish emerge from the world of awesome! Click…
Top 10 Phobias
Surveys and research results show that most people would rather die than talk in front of a live audience… Here’s a global fears top ten: 1. Fear of public speaking (Glossophobia) 2. Fear of death (Necrophobia) 3. Fear of spiders (Arachnophobia) 4. Fear of darkness (Achluophobia) 5. Fear of heights (Acrophobia) 6. Fear of people or social situations (Sociophobia) 7. Fear of flying...
July 2011
1 post
10 Surprising Findings on Happiness →
Unlocking the riddle of what makes humans happy is the subject of much research, aimed perhaps at finding a formula or creating a map to help us in this endless and universal…
June 2011
2 posts
Which of the four are getting in the way? →
You don’t know what to do You don’t know how to do it You don’t have the authority or the resources to do it You’re afraid Once you figure out what’s getting in the way, it’s far easier to find…
The Most Common Regrets People Have on Their... →
There may be no better way to learn about life than by listening to people who are facing death. A palliative nurse has posted five of the most common regrets people have in the last…
March 2011
2 posts
The triumph of coal marketing →
Do you have an opinion about nuclear power? About the relative safety of one form of power over another? How did you come to this opinion? Here are the stats, and here’s the image. A…
Missed the Life In Perpetual Beta live cast? See the whole movie free in the LIPB Viewing Room http://bit.ly/gUhLiy (RT my junk yo!)
January 2011
1 post
“Sports is to war what pornography is to sex.”
– http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
December 2010
5 posts
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Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
“What we do *always* reflects what we want (or what we want to avoid).”
– Me.
(Inspired by my friend, Adam Potter)
November 2010
2 posts
The Insanity Virus | Mental Health | DISCOVER... →
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Could this be true?
Schizophrenia is usually diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 25, but the person who becomes schizophrenic is sometimes recalled to have been different as…
August 2010
5 posts
We need to permeate our being w/positive loving energy, as much as we can take, as often as we can. #Love
“To speak for others is to first silence those in
whose name we speak.
...”
““The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain,...”
Philosophy is the art of explaining at great length what everyone else finds intuitively obvious. #philbitescomp
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
A typical couple's problem:
“I believe you can make me happy,
I believe I’m not happy because you’re deliberately withholding happiness from me.
I believe you will make me happy if I threaten you into providing happiness for me.”
- provided by James Bell, M.A. L.P.C.
(www.jamesbellmalpc.com)
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
37 posts
Consciousness, Emotion, Death, Religion: The Really Big Questions podcast series: http://bit.ly/aUMnch
Conservatives argue economics, and Liberals argue Sociology. No wonder the bickering never ends. They’re talking about two different things!
Lack of an Other
I had a great conversation today with @MrTeacup on Twitter. It was roughly a debate between capitalistic vs. socialistic solutions to social problems. I was on the capitalistic side, and I thought I made some good arguments.
To explore the other side of the argument, I went on to watch this video from The Zeitgeist Movement. It talks about the problems we’ve created for ourselves through...
Cherry blossom petal crosses Park Avenue at the intersection of hurry and attention.
The facts about who's paying income tax.
[This was sent to me by a dear friend. Avery smart and educated man, with very strong fiscally conservative beliefs. He did his homework on income tax, and this is what he found. If you’re short on time, just look at the numbered points and graphs.]
Discussion:
At the outset, and before I’m accused of bias or the use of pejorative terminology in this discussion, I will say that I...
WatchVery creative video: Pixels, by Patrick Jean
8 Things People Never Tell You About Having Kids http://bit.ly/9xUC3p
If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would
be so stupid we wouldn’t be able to understand it after all.
Did you know many scientists, along w/ neurocardiologists and researchers today consider the heart to contain a brain? http://bit.ly/9FmOSn
“Everything works by magic; science represents a small
domain of magick where coincidences have a relatively
high probability of occurrence”
Killing time is suicide by increments.
Via @necroichthus
To get past our own problems, we need to know: 1) that we have them 2) what they are, and 3) how they affect us.
It’s easier to help others than to help ourselves, because other people’s problems are not our own.