July 2010
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June 2010
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WatchCool.
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“A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what...”
– E. Digby Baltzell
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“If your strategy in life is to avoid those activities and requirements that you...”
– Mike Rowe, in advice to a Boy Scout
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Using Star Trek to Teach Critical Thinking →
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“If you want to make the right decision for the future, fear is not a very good...”
– Markus Dohle
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Frank Chimero: Thursday's Story →
One day, a Tibetan Lama was speaking to a group of monks and, to make a point, pulled out a large jar, set it on the table in front of him, produced a few fist-sized rocks, and placed them, one by one, into the jar. When no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?”
Everyone…
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"My Obsession with a New York Cup of Coffee and a... →
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The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our... →
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“Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that...”
– Paul Bloom
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“Alvin Toffler warned us about Future Shock, but is this Future Fatigue? For the...”
– William Gibson
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“I suspect that younger people are multitasking because they believe that...”
– Clifford Nass
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“Many of us escalate from multitasking to partial continuous attention: we’re...”
– Gary Small
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WatchWonderful. Via The Long Now Foundation:
It’s a reverse time lapse put together by Greg Mercer and Emily Ward (editing), and David Quednau (animation). Unwinding 20,000 years of a modern American city and frontier outposts, Native American settlements and the last ice age, we arrive in their world and resurrect them in film.
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“In fact, the term “multitasking” is misleading. With rare exceptions, people...”
– Steven Yantis
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“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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“We have now evolved culturally to the point where the entire world is connected...”
– Spencer Wells
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“The changes as we settled down into villages and then cities wrought havoc on...”
– Spencer Wells
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Slideshow: Caught in the Oil →
AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the effects more evident. (8 photos total)
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“Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can...”
– Matt Richtel, for the NYTimes
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