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Letter From London - My American Friends
"It turns out that the qualities that make us indubitably British — that is, the ones that we don't share with or have not imported from America — are no longer conducive to Greatness."
Art - Time, the Infinite Storyteller
"It seems a trifle odd that artworks are such superb instruments of time travel. Yet art is loaded and layered with different forms of time and complexly linked to the past and the present and even the future. The longer they exist the more onionlike and synaptic they become."
The Psychology Behind Putting Off What Can Be Enjoyed Now
Open that prized bottle of wine, redeem those air miles. Now, not later.
Cases - Etiquette of How to Address Someone in the Exam Room
How does one address one's physician?
How Less TV Changes Your Day
watching less TV doesn't necessarily lead to more exercise or better eating habits, but it does result in subtle but meaningful changes in overall activity levels
The Myth of the Deficient Older Employee
Older workers are commonly though of as being less productive, less willing to learn than younger workers. The real picture is more nuanced.
Mind - Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake
The purpose of dreams is physiological, not pyschological at all.
Author's Personal Forecast: Not Always Sunny, but Pleasantly Skeptical
Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-Sided: "It can't all be fixed by assertiveness training."
Strange New World
Review of Atwood's The Year of the Flood, on how the End can happen in the name of a new beginning.
Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teenagers
Twitter is the adult thing to do. "It seems more, like, professional, and not something that a teenager would do.."
Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World
"We are, all of us, abandoning taxonomy, the ordering and naming of life."
Street Smart: Urban Dictionary
The Urban Dictionary is widely considered the best place ot privately educate yourself about indelicate pop phenomena.
The Case for Working With Your Hands
In praise of those who actually do useful things (knowledge workers step aside.).
The 10 Genes of a Human Flu Virus, Furiously Evolving
David Spiro: "[Viruses] have managed to exploit our modern culture and spred around the world."
Genius:The Modern View
The key factor separating genius from the merely accomplished is...practice.
Let Them Eat Tweets - Why Twitter Is a Trap
Twitter is so very middle class.
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The implications of Sterling’s idea are painful for Twitter types. The connections that feel like wealth to many of us — call us the impoverished, we who treasure our smartphones and tally our Facebook friends — are in fact meager, more meager even than inflated dollars. What’s worse, these connections are liabilities that we pretend are assets. We live on the Web in these hideous conditions of overcrowding only because — it suddenly seems so obvious — we can’t afford privacy. And then, lest we confront our horror, we call this cramped ghetto our happy home!
The Soul of Medicine: Tales From the Bedside
On the doctor-patient relationship: "It is horrifying what docotrs used to get away with."
The Biggest of Puzzles Brought Down to Size
"It's really just critical thinking, breaking down seemingly complicated problems into simpler problems."
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