September 2011
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Bookend Your Day: The Power of Morning and Evening... →
Today we’re going to talk about one of the very best: “bookending” your day with a morning and evening routine.
August 2011
3 posts
Paradoxical Theory of Change →
Briefly stated, it is this: that change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. Change does not take place through a coercive attempt by the individual or by…
The Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit #1:... →
not all the knowledge a visualization expert needs comes from data visualization books. I have no intention to write another long list of related disciplines’ books, but it’s important for you to…
Computational Philosophy of Science - The MIT... →
By applying research in artificial intelligence to problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Thagard develops an exciting new approach to the study of scientific reasoning. This approach uses…
July 2011
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Complete Notes to Good Calories, Bad Calories |... →
These notes are ideal as a quick reference for those who have already read the book. For those who haven’t read it, there is much information here, but this no substitute for the real thing
June 2011
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Aporia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
the term to “indicate a point of undecidability, which locates the site at which the text most obviously undermines its own rhetorical structure, dismantles, or deconstructs itself”
Hackney Hear -- IndieGoGo →
An interactive GPS-triggered audio tour of London’s East End (host of the 2012 Olympic Games) on your mobile phone.
Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game →
Brain Workshop implements this task. The dual n-back task involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time, and identifying when a letter or…
April 2011
3 posts
Nerdy Day Trips - tell us about yours, we'll build... →
I am a very big fan of nerdy day trips, from Sea Forts to abandoned nuclear bunkers, dead victorian racecourses, roads that are falling into the ground, narrow gauge railways that take you to a power…
US Uncut Gets AP to Run Story on GE's Supposed... →
the AP and several publications fell for a hoax email this morning that announced GE’s plans to mark tax day by sending $3.2 billion to the U.S. Treasury because the company felt bad about not paying…
Wanderlust →
Wanderlust is an experimental location-based storytelling platform.
March 2011
3 posts
Welcome — Developer Support Handbook →
I wrote this handbook to document what I’ve learnt about developer support over 4 years in Google Developer Relations. If you care about the success of your APIs and your developer community, then…
The School of Life : The Two Approaches to... →
As a sort of happy medium between these two opposites, we hear about the importance of combining Kelsey’s narrative approach to life with Halliwell’s ‘resting-in-the-moment’ approach
Data Science Toolkit →
A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces. Available as a…
February 2011
2 posts
Jonathan Schifferes - Mapping the Big Society |... →
The spatial implications of many recently-announced change are monumental: a number of its reforms and initiatives involve citizens and front-line staff actively redrawing the geography of service…
December 2010
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November 2010
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Basics - Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious... →
the rodents were now cognitively predisposed to keep doing the same things over and over, to run laps in the same dead-ended rat race rather than seek a pipeline to greener sewers. “Behaviors become…
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“For me, the height of intimacy is engaging in radically honest, vulnerable...”
– Exploring What Intimacy Means (via bowfolk)
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henrycharlesbukowski:
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn’t.
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October 2010
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“I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin...”
– Charles Bukowski (Women: A Novel)
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September 2010
8 posts
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Talking Philosophy | Inner Freedom →
We must learn from experience and thought how we fit into the universe as a whole, and how the universe fits into us. We must discover our genuine interests and needs, what really satisfies us, what…
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Nightcrawler by NOSAJ THING
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10 Things About Turning 40 - PLATFORM COLUMNS →
“When you get married you get to see your wife’s tits whenever you want.” He was right. Only, it’s your best friend’s tits. You don’t have any game when you’re married because you’re in a new…
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August 2010
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Punk Mathematics by Tom Henderson — Kickstarter →
Punk Mathematics will be a series of mathematical stories. It is written for readers who are interested in having their minds expanded by the strange metaphors and implications of mathematics, even…
July 2010
4 posts
Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review - The... →
Perhaps I need to surrender the idea that the value of friendship lies precisely in the space of privacy it creates: not the secrets that two people exchange so much as the unique and inviolate world…
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Mind Hacks: Against narrativity →
Strawson goes on to identify two personality types, which he calls the diachronic type, the kind of person disposed to conceive of themselves connected to both their past and future selves, and the…