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You Say Potato, I’ll Say Potato
Being connected to a happy person makes you 15 percent more likely to be happy yourself.
Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective
"The Igon Value Problem: when a writer's education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong."
Edit This Page: Is it the end of Wikipedia
Why does Wikipedia work? And how is it changing?
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.
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
well, maybe not scientific, but certainly techniques to watch out for
Bugs and the Victorians
Professional amateurs of the 19th century. Another To Read candidate.
Can just using rations really teach me to be a better cook?
On being a better cook: improvisation vs following the recipe
Love’s Labors and Costs
On identity: A world in which all human madly display personal qualities, tribal affiliations, and social positions at all times.
Why can't we concentrate?
You are what you pay attention to. A review of Gallagher's Rapt.
Almost every social problem stems from one root cause - inequality, argue two British academics
On inequality as the root cause for nearly all social problems in developed societies - reduced life expectancy, child mortality, drugs, crime, homicide rates, mental illness and obesity.
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Pickett is more alert to the political implications of their findings, while Wilkinson is more happy to follow an argument to its conclusion, however uncomfortable that may be. You can understand Pickett's concern. If self-interest and greed create inequality, then you don't necessarily want to give the impression that the solution lies in more of the same. On the other hand, there's a pleasing irony to the idea that the well-off may have mistaken their self-interest for so long, and it's not often that bleeding-heart liberals get to combine their morality and self-interest. So, as Wilkinson points out, we should make the most of it.
The Soul of Medicine: Tales From the Bedside
On the doctor-patient relationship: "It is horrifying what docotrs used to get away with."
You are not your brain
Alva Noe: Most brain science is too reductive. The brain is not the author of our experience.
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