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27 Jun New York’s Ban on Big Sodas Is Rejected by Final Court
As reported in this article in the New York Times, “the Bloomberg big-soda ban is officially dead.” The state’s highest court on Thursday refused to reinstate New York City’s controversial limits on sales of jumbo sugary drinks, exhausting the city’s final appeal and dashing the...
27 Jun What Marc Andreessen Gets Wrong About Our Future Robot Overlords
Tasneem Raja, Mother Jones Interactive Editor, writes about alternative scenarios to mega-venture-capitalist Marc Andreesen’s vision of the future; one that he says will be a robotic utopia of leisure. Marc Andreessen recently wrote a widely shared post about how robots will change the economy. The Netscape founder...
27 Jun The Science of Procrastination and How to Manage It
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.“ Mark Twain Maria Popova, a Bulgarian writer and critic living in Brooklyn, New York and best known for one of my favorite blogs, brainpickings.org, offers up a post about something near and...
26 Jun 50 Classy People From The Past Who Remind Us What “Cool” Really Means!
Jake Heppner of Distractify notes: “Our society has come a long way in the past few decades but we’ve completely forgotten what it’s like to be classy. Let’s take a lesson from these masters of “old school cool.” Click Here to see the other 48...
26 Jun 10 Absinthes You Should Be Drinking
Emma Janzen, a freelance drinks writer and photographer, discovers and reviews her 10 favorite absinthes in this post in the Serious Eats website. Which absinthe should you buy? It depends if you want traditional or new wave… Absinthe is one of the world’s most misunderstood...
25 Jun Second Chance: Kangaroos? Really?
Recently there was an interesting article in National Geographic (April 2014) about wild/exotic pet ownership . The story discussed the motivation that drives people to own such pets as lions, kangaroos, lemurs, pythons, and more. (The piece also strongly emphasized the array of negative impacts upon the...
25 Jun Music Changes the Way You Think
Here are several excerpts from a Scientific American article by Daniel A. Yudkin and Yaacov Trope about a recent paper that was published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology that argues that different music encourages different frames of mind; it quite literally changes the way...
25 Jun 10 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently
Here are several excerpts from a post by Carolyn Gregoire, a features editor at the Huffington Post, that offers an interesting analysis of The 10 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently. Intuition is challenging to define, despite the huge role it plays in our everyday lives. Steve...