September 2009
Ethical Dilemmas Involving Klondike Bars by Justin...
You operate an orphanage and your funding has just been slashed. Kids are now going without dessert. Your friend owns a grocery store and is willing to donate 500 Klondike bars to the orphans if you lie and tell the government that he donated 1,000. What would you do-o-o?
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You tell a co-worker about a delicious new flavor of Klondike bars. She vows to buy some that night. Later that afternoon,...
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“In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers,...”
– 10,000 hours as the magic number for true expertise.
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The Art of Giving Compliments →
The best compliment I ever got came in 1979, after I sang three verses of “Home on the Range” over a hand truck full of busted-up Sheetrock. I was riding in the steel case of a freight elevator, down seventeen floors through an office tower in Rochester, New York. Something about the acoustics worked in my favor and I nailed it. The guy riding with me, a college kid with a mustache...
Birds seem like models of monogamy — building...
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“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”
Brain Scans Reveal What You've Seen →
Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you’ve seen by reading your mind.
Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen.
Though practical applications are decades away, the research could someday lead to dream-readers and thought-controlled computers.
“It’s what you...
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Notes from an amateur spectator at an amateur...
AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF FIGHTING MOVES AS I’VE NAMED THEM TONIGHT:
1. The Go Fuck Your Mother, I’m Too Angry to Throw a Sophisticated Punch This GFYM punch is most often seen from a fighter in his first fight. It’s basically an uncontrolled punch motivated more by the desire to throw a really really hard punch that may or may not connect than to use any sort of fighting strategy, e.g. holding...
