XML

Sunday, August 29, 2010

"Dusty's a winner everywhere he goes," Ramirez said. "He went to the
World Series in San Francisco. He went to the playoffs with us. I
think he's going to the playoffs here in Cincinnati.

http://wap.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010082914065974/

--
Sent from my mobile device

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are
forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember
information, or come up with new ideas.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=E80BC7987FF37B42785F21A593B7B21D.w5?a=648539&single=1&f=24

--
Sent from my mobile device

Once again, the world is about to end.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eternal-fascinations

--
Sent from my mobile device

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Trader Joe's doesn't pick up on trends -- it sets them

http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/20/news/companies/inside_trader_joes_full_version.fortune/

--
Sent from my mobile device

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Christiane says her uncle's story reinforced for Stanley and her their
great principle in life: always be suspicious of people who have, or
crave, power.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/18/stanley-kubrick-christiane

--
Sent from my mobile device

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

It's a city where no one really knows quite where they're going.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/chicago_on_the_yangtze?page=full

--
Sent from my mobile device

Monday, August 16, 2010

In a town where celebrity scandals are as common as wildfires and taco trucks

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_34/b4192054590968.htm

--
Sent from my mobile device

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments.

http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/blogs/rod-dreher/americans-are-weird

--
Sent from my mobile device

Friday, August 13, 2010

Just as modern abattoirs have studied the colors that can distract and
agitate cows during their final moments—thus ruining their meat with
adrenaline—prisons have painted their walls in soothing shades to
minimize anxiety and aggression in their inmates.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/prison-without-walls/8195/

--
Sent from my mobile device

It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway,
because I can't stand primitive people—they're so stupid.

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php?page=all

--
Sent from my mobile device

Thursday, August 05, 2010

This is how they reacted to the dissonance of being wrong: by becoming
even more certain that they were right.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/the-psychology-of-conspiracy-theories/

--
Sent from my mobile device

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

One Pennsylvania lineman recalled: "I've seen this happen — the lights
come on — hundreds of places, and it's an emotional situation you
can't describe…something happens, lightning strikes them and they all
at once are different. People prayed, they cried, they swore."

http://mobile.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/08/01/the_incandescent_bulb_an_obituary/

--
Sent from my mobile device

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Everybody likes the backup quarterback.

http://m.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010080112888732/

--
Sent from my mobile device