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betabetabeatbeat: Here, for your enjoyment, are 50 DIY projects...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:45:30 -0500

Here, for your enjoyment, are 50 DIY projects (all from Pinterest, naturally) that you’re doing to be too busy drinking eggnog to do this Christmas.

Tl;dr: Quit crafting and go eat cookies and shake some presents.

betabetabeatbeat: In which we discovered Pinterest’s Advent...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:54:09 -0500

betabetabeatbeat:

In which we discovered Pinterest’s Advent calendar.

blog life

So we were googling “yellowcake uranium”...

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:59:13 -0400

So we were googling “yellowcake uranium” (don’t ask), and it turns out we’re not the only ones?

Where DOES one buy uranium? Cause it’s clearly not Niger.

oldtimeycats: Allan Grant, Cat Eats Corn, 1951. Source: LIFE...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:45:49 -0400

oldtimeycats:

Allan Grant, Cat Eats Corn, 1951. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

That’s a well-fed cat.

boston: EDITORIAL Bookstores could help bring new life to...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:43:37 -0400

boston:

EDITORIAL

Bookstores could help bring new life to Downtown Crossing

Macy’s is opening a small bookstore section in its Downtown Crossing location, sending an encouraging message about the long-troubled retail district.

(David L. Ryan / Globe Staff)

I have fond memories of Downtown Crossing’s bookstores. The Borders was my go-to for romance novels.

vintagegal: Illustration by Coby...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:04:51 -0400

vintagegal:

Illustration by Coby Whitmore

“You don’t say.”

“Customers who viewed this also viewed” is one of...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:17:15 -0400

“Customers who viewed this also viewed” is one of Amazon’s little delights.

betabetabeatbeat: “Is venture capital a sexist industry?”...

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:51:33 -0400

betabetabeatbeat:

“Is venture capital a sexist industry?” -David Kirkpatrick, moderating the all-male investing panel at TechCrunch Disrupt

Oh, dear.

May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:20:59 -0400

May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month:

usagov:

Learn about what you can to do prevent these attacks in your home.

Oh believe me, I am already aware of allergies.

This is nothing short of amazing.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:48:50 -0400

This is nothing short of amazing.

This GIF is basically my life with my cat.

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:59:49 -0400

This GIF is basically my life with my cat.

2logix: Before you see James Cameron’s Titanic in 3-D on April...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:02:18 -0400

2logix:

Before you see James Cameron’s Titanic in 3-D on April 4 — we’re all going, right? — check out this all-new paperback edition of James Cameron’s Titanic. It’s stuffed with info about the Best Picture winner — as well as 26 never-before-seen images from the film’s studio archive. See four more shots at EW.com.

Man, Kate Winslet looks like all kinds of (glorious) trouble in this shot. Leo, on the other hand, already betrays signs of being way too Serious About His Craft.

MARMOSET, SET, SET

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:37 -0500

MARMOSET, SET, SET

New office mascot? (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:41:59 -0500

New office mascot? (Taken with instagram)

fastcompany: Can you guess who has saved more...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:09:56 -0500

fastcompany:

Can you guess who has saved more lives?

Infographic of the Day: Bill Gates Is A Better Superhero Than Batman

Best part of being ultra wealthy: Living out childhood dreams. Like defeating malaria.

Mugging for the camera. (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:00:19 -0500

Mugging for the camera. (Taken with instagram)

cryptofwrestling: Kitty hopes to stop the Godzilla menace.

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:27:21 -0500

cryptofwrestling:

Kitty hopes to stop the Godzilla menace.

Damn right he is.

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:13:49 -0500

Damn right he is.

"The great irony and tragedy of “intro econ” is that it is at its introductory level that economic..."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:54:16 -0500

“

The great irony and tragedy of “intro econ” is that it is at its introductory level that economic theory is both most broadly consumed and most malignantly simplistic. In a recent study, economists at the University of Washington found there to be an “indoctrination effect” for non-majors who take an economics course: on average, they behave more selfishly and hold less regard for others after taking such a course.

Generations of the world’s business people and public policy makers have been nursed on such courses. To gain some insight into why our economies and institutions are crumbling beneath us, then, imagine an engineer equipped with a rudimentary understanding of physics that omits gravity, and a certain above-average disregard for human life not his own. Now imagine him building all the major bridges in the world.

”

- The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS)

Perhaps the most interesting bit,

To casually label economics a science is at best aspirational, at worst manipulative, at a minimum misleading. At the introductory level, the issue at stake is less one of methodology than of how deferential the layperson or novice should be to the authority of expert or policy entrepreneur appeal to economic theory. Skepticism is always a virtue. When evaluating claims based on simple economic models, it’s self-defense.

I feel like this should be read alongside What We Learn When We Learn Econ by Christopher Hayes. It basically discusses his experience in an intro to econ course at the University of Chicago. To save you some time, it was not an overwhelmingly positive experience.

Meanwhile at Berkeley, the into to econ course is being taught by Brad DeLong during the spring.

(via thenoobyorker)

—

My decision to skip Ec-10: vindicated.

shortformblog: climateadaptation: Does that count as irony?...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:33:18 -0500

shortformblog:

climateadaptation:

Does that count as irony? Nicholas Kristof’s fb update…

The mark of the humble brag rises again.