August 2012
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Goodbye To Ichiro, The Man They Called Something →
Personally, I’m pleased that, if Ichiro had to go, he wound up on the Yankees. The Yankees have as good a shot at the World Series as anybody, and Ichiro’s never played in anything even close to that environment, on and off the field. I hope he gets his ring. He deserves a ring, if more for his career than for his season, and while the Yankees are by no means the most rootable bandwagon in the...
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“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.”
– Gore Vidal
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Olympic Fencer refuses to leave the floor after... →
This is on that “Never Forgive, Never Forget” tip. Similar to when Roy Jones Jr. was robbed in 1998 by South Korea in a shameful scandal.
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“The Buddhist view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give...”
– Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher
July 2012
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“I am lured by faraway distances, the immense void I project upon the world. A...”
– E.M. Cioran 1911-1995
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A Brief History of Money →
Let’s start with what money is used for. Modern economists typically define it by the three roles it plays in an economy:
It’s a store of value, meaning that money allows you to defer consumption until a later date.
It’s a unit of account, meaning that it allows you to assign a value to different goods without having to compare them. So instead of saying that a Rolex watch is worth...
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Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has bad news about... →
By: Liz Dwyer GOOD, July 27, 2012
Will getting an education help you achieve the American dream? College graduates still earn twice what their peers with only a high school diploma earn, but if you don’t have the educational and social opportunities you need to actually get into college and graduate, your chances of raking in a higher salary are pretty slim. Indeed, in an appearance this...
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Making the Most of Mentorship →
HOW TO BE A GOOD BOSS AND MENTOR:
1. Lead by example — and stick to it.
Good bosses and mentors take a stand on how they want things done, which sets the standard for the organisation at large. No manager’s style will make everybody happy. The key is to be consistent, so that employees learn how to operate within your particular approach.
While at McKinsey, I worked on a project for a manager...
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French website reveals waiters' tricks to make... →
By: Kim Willsher The Guardian, July 26, 2012
The Parisian “garçon” with his brasserie apron and brusque attitude already gets a bad press in France and abroad.
Now French journalists have stuck the knife in further by revealing the wiles and tricks employed by staff of Gallic eateries to make diners part with their cash.
In an article headlined: “Seven serving tips to...
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Mirror neuron →
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron “mirrors” the behaviour of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate and other species including birds. In humans, brain activity consistent with that of mirror neurons has...
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– Happy 156th birthday, George Bernard Shaw. (Editor’s note: You Might Create Yourself?)
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LÉON is live. Leather Jacket no.1 available to...
peternyc:
LÉON website and online store is finally live.
It’s been a testing journey, finally being out on my own. But there’s nothing more satisfying than seeing ideas and dreams that have been floating in your head materialize into reality.
I always had a lot of gripes when it came to womenswear designs. For example, why don’t jackets have inner pockets? Why are there non-functional...
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Every Woman Should Travel Alone →
By: Sarah Hepola Salon, July 23, 2012
It was three months into my solo road trip when I grew genuinely scared. I’d been pitching my tent across the country, but I had rolled into Bar Harbor, Maine, on July 4 only to discover all the campgrounds and hotels were full. Wouldn’t you know: The grand celebration of our freedom left me with nowhere to stay. So I parked my car in Acadia National Park,...
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Alone in the Void →
By: Adam Frank NY Times, July 24, 2012
SOMETIME this year Voyager 1, a probe sent from Earth 35 years ago, will cross a threshold no human-fashioned object has reached before. Passing through a sun-driven shock wave at the edge of the solar system, it will reach the icy dominions of interstellar space. Voyager is one of the fastest vessels we’ve ever blown out of Earth’s gravity well. Still,...
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Living with Voices →
By T. M. Luhrmann The American Scholar, Summer 2012
Hans is a Dutch man in his 20s, kind and large and careful in his speech and movement. He has the profile typical of someone with schizophrenia. He had been an excellent student in grade school, but things started to fall apart in his teens. He began to smoke a lot of marijuana and quit school at 17 to work in a factory. One evening, he heard a...
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Martin Amis on Porn →
It’s been a subject of yours for a while, and it’s remarkable just how much the culture of pornography has changed even since you’ve been writing about it.
In my early novels there are references to magazines, which seems quaint now. It didn’t really exist, except pictures of young girls showing their breasts. And then there was the breakthrough with pubic hair, 1970, I think. But it just felt...
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