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He takes 180 to 210 vitamin and mineral supplements a day, so many that he doesn't have time to organize them all himself. So he's hired a pill wrangler, who takes them out of their bottles and sorts them into more...
posted 5 months ago in culture22 views | 6 jaas | 1 save | 1 reply )
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Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the more...
posted 2 months ago in psychology, logic, human8 views | 4 jaas | 2 saves | reply )
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“A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for.”
posted 4 months ago in social6 views | 3 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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A sculpture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the supreme deity cooked up to protest a Kansas legal battle over evolution, went on display outside a courthouse in Cumberland County, Tennessee, late last month.
posted 4 months ago in culture, evolution, religion16 views | 5 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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The fight is long over here for authority over the security services, the oil business, mass media and pretty much all the levers of government. Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, notwithstanding some recent anti-government protests, has won those wars, hands down, and more...
posted 9 months ago in art, news, russia, culture, putin18 views | 5 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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"I do know, though, that the TV, movie and record companies' problems have only just begun. Right now, the customers who can't even *see* why file sharing might be wrong are still young. But 10, 20, 30 years from now, more...
posted 4 months ago in copyright9 views | 3 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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A talk about a pattern I've seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy."
posted 9 months ago in jaanix, psychology, social17 views | 4 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all
posted 10 months ago in history, politics6 views | 2 jaas | 1 save | reply )

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