Point of Graves cemetery in Portsmouth est. in the 1600s.
It’s easy to feel the weight of the world some days – stock markets plunging, euro zone struggling, mid-East warring, politics mired in seemingly intransigent partisan demagoguery – but how’s this for good news: we may be living in the most peaceable era in human existence. This according to Harvard psych prof Steven Pinker, who [...]
On our hike yesterday with four 8/9-year-old boys, a couple of things occurred to us. One was that 9 seems to be the absolute perfect age to be a boy. Coming into your physical and imaginative powers, yet with none of the baggage that attends the teen years. It also occurred to us that not [...]
Great flight on Southwest today, with some very funny patter from the crew throughout. But the topper was a the “trainee twin sister” of one of the attendants they had pass through the cabin for trash pickup near the end of the flight. It’s irreverent, light hearted touches like this that really makes Southwest fun. [...]
On March 18, On the Media hosted an excellent discussion about perceived bias in NPR’s reporting, including an appearance by This American Life’s Ira Glass. It was interesting to note, however, that it’s hard to get away from bias in our core language even when the discussion is bias and those discussing it are extra-sensitized [...]
There’s an app for that, but should there be? CNET’s Chris Matyszczyk comments on this Sesame Street sketch satirizing app culture. As he puts it: “This song reflects quite beautifully man’s excessive reliance on technology to alleviate the deficiencies of his own narcotically addled brain.”
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I see, and have to admit to using, a lot of PowerPoint in my work life. There’re things it’s good for, and some things it’s not. The Daily Show did a nice job of mocking a “things it’s not” use… Love the Star Wars moment near the end. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon [...]
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Sticktoitiveness, grit, persistence – whatever you call it, it predicts future success better than raw talent alone. I came across a story on Boston.com last week that got me thinking about this. In it, Jonah Lehrer, reviewing a recent study on grit, points out: “While researchers have long focused on measurements of intelligence, such as [...]
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My friend Bob just read the book 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive and after sharing with me some promotional ideas the book sparked for him, passed along a link to this blog post, which sums up the whole fascinating list. The book contains some persuasion techniques that you’ll recognize instantly – since they’ve probably been [...]
Drawing pictures with the kids this morning – here’s mine. I guess reading the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue this week has got me imitating a certain style here… And no, I haven’t gotten any writing done yet this weekend.
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