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"If wolverines have a strategy, it’s this: Go hard, and high, and steep, and never back down,..."

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:22:32 -0500

“If wolverines have a strategy, it’s this: Go hard, and high, and steep, and never back down, not even from the biggest grizzly, and least of all from a mountain. Climb everything: trees, cliffs, avalanche chutes, summits. Eat everybody: alive, dead, long-dead, moose, mouse, fox, frog, its still warm heart or frozen bones. Whatever wolverines do, they do undaunted. They live life as fiercely and relentlessly as it has ever been lived.”

- Douglas H. Chadwick, author of The Wolverine Way, quoted in the Globe and Mail.

Behavioural economics in a nutshell. ianbroyles: How to...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:40:40 -0500

Behavioural economics in a nutshell.

ianbroyles:

How to increase tips courtesy of Starbucks Sherman Oaks.

England Without Rooney

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:46:52 -0500

Via the WSJ:

Since Rooney made his international debut in 2003, he’s missed a total of 29 England games through injury or suspension. In those games, England has a winning percentage of .689—versus .603 when he’s in the lineup. England has even scored more goals without him (2.21) than with (1.90).

Death to pennies!

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:44:11 -0500

Death to pennies!

WSJ panel on the origins of innovation featuring Matt Ridley,...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:42:33 -0500

WSJ panel on the origins of innovation featuring Matt Ridley, Jonah Lehrer, Steven Berlin Johnson, and Peter Sims.

"Perhaps the ‘something nicer’ which should replace capitalism is a more nuanced – and..."

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:30:41 -0400

“Perhaps the ‘something nicer’ which should replace capitalism is a more nuanced – and more accurate – account of capitalism itself.”

- John Kay

Video

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:38:27 -0400

Photo

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:29:26 -0400

Screen shot of the Drudge Report homepage, Oct. 20, 2011. Is...

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:40:46 -0400

Screen shot of the Drudge Report homepage, Oct. 20, 2011. Is this earnest? Ironic? Social commentary? I’ll leave the interpretation up to you.

"What did I ever do to you?"

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:22:44 -0400

“What did I ever do to you?”

- Gaddhafi to a rebel fighter, as quoted in the Daily Mail, Oct. 20, 2011.

felixsalmon: (via The Greatest OWS Protest Sign Ever | The Big...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:42:10 -0400

felixsalmon:

(via The Greatest OWS Protest Sign Ever | The Big Picture)

"A mischievous person might even ask whether ‘supply-side economics’ really was just a..."

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:58:51 -0400

“A mischievous person might even ask whether ‘supply-side economics’ really was just a sort of code word for ‘Keynesianism.’”

- Peter Thiel, “The End of the Future,” National Review, Oct 3, 2011

A one year-old girl mistakes a magazine for a broken iPad. Video...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:24:00 -0400

A one year-old girl mistakes a magazine for a broken iPad. Video and commentary by @jlconstanza; h/t: @newsycombinator

Here’s Part Two and Part Three. Written and presented by...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:44:20 -0400

Here’s Part Two and Part Three. Written and presented by Alain de Botton.

Great infographic by Jon Bruner of Forbes illustrating...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:56:50 -0400

Great infographic by Jon Bruner of Forbes illustrating America’s dominance in scientific research (h/t: Nathan Yau).

But why not literature? “We’ve become an Oldsmobile in a world yearning for a Prius,” laments Alexander Nazaryan. “Our paint is flaking. Nobody wants our clunkers.”

Screen shot of Apple.com homepage, October 5, 2011.

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:10:32 -0400

Screen shot of Apple.com homepage, October 5, 2011.

An interesting diagram of the political spectrum by Nicklas W...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:18:00 -0400

An interesting diagram of the political spectrum by Nicklas W Bjurman in the Wikimedia Commons.

via The Chronicle of Higher Education

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:41:48 -0400

via The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Hey! Guess what? My daughter didn’t even ask what the HPV shot was for."

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:56:30 -0400

“Hey! Guess what? My daughter didn’t even ask what the HPV shot was for.”

- there’s no way a vaccine will encourage kids to have sex (via kellyoxford)

"People appear to dislike politics and politicians so much that prompting them to think about them..."

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:42:00 -0400

“People appear to dislike politics and politicians so much that prompting them to think about them has a very large downward effect on their assessment of their own lives. The effect of asking the political questions on well-being is only a little less than the effect of someone becoming unemployed, so that to get the same effect on average well-being, three-quarters of the population would have to lose their jobs.”

- Angus Deaton, economist at Princeton, cited in the Washington Post. (h/t: Eric Barker)