Category: Asides

The last bul­let point rings so true it ought to have first chair in a sym­pho­ny. 

Are “fren­e­mies” even worse than ene­mies? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

“Friends that we feel ambiva­lent­ly about raise our blood pres­sure more — cause more anx­i­ety and stress — than peo­ple we active­ly dis­like.” This is from an episode (“Fren­e­mies”) of the con­sis­tent­ly e…

Scott Adams always pro­vokes me to think. He’s eas­i­ly one of my favorite liv­ing essay­ists.

Scott Adams Blog: Pick­ing a Pres­i­dent 09/11/2012

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Inter­est­ing. I total­ly buy that peo­ple use chap­lains much more than they use coun­selors — that very much aligns with my obser­va­tions. Pas­tors are per­ceived to lis­ten because they love you. Coun­selors are per­ceived to lis­ten because they are paid to. It makes a dif­fer­ence.

60 Sec­ond Sum­ma­ry: The Rise of the Cor­po­rate Chap­lain

Bloomberg Busi­ness­week on the recent growth of cor­po­rate chaplaincy.Bloomberg Busi­ness­week on the recent growth of cor­po­rate chap­lain­cy.

I love how the lit­tle demon bot scans both his mind and his heart. Nice touch.

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Inter­est­ing. I’ve been hear­ing for years that red wine is healthy for your heart… but I guess that’s like believ­ing that cof­fee is a won­der drug that makes your brain work bet­ter. Peo­ple want it to be true.

Study: Red Wine Is Health­i­er When It’s Non-Alco­holic (Sor­ry)

Research sug­gests the alco­hol in red wine may actu­al­ly be imped­ing the antiox­i­dants’ car­dio­vas­cu­lar ben­e­fits.

Tina Seel­ig’s course on cre­ativ­i­ty looks inter­est­ing.

Stan­ford Offers 16 Free Cours­es This Fall

The uni­ver­si­ty, which pio­neered mas­sive open online cours­es, unveils two new home­grown soft­ware plat­forms to host the cours­es.

This is basi­cal­ly what I believe the Bible’s mes­sage on bribery to be: it is okay to give a bribe when nec­es­sary but nev­er okay to accept one. Con­trast Proverbs 21:14 with Exo­dus 23:8 (among many oth­er rel­e­vant pas­sages). Liv­ing in a fall­en world is com­plex.

Kaushik Basu named as World Bank chief econ­o­mist

Annie Lowrey has the scoop. Excerpt: A paper he released last year caused a bit of a stir: While advis­ing the Indi­an gov­ern­ment, Mr. Basu argued that coun­tries could reduce the inci­dence of “harassme…

I still wish UT had come into the PAC-what­ev­er.

Stan­ford Researchers Explore Why Foot­ball is Entrenched in The Amer­i­can Col­le­giate Expe­ri­ence

The rea­son for this sym­bio­sis between the grid­iron and the class­room is less than obvi­ous.

“ado­les­cent male mon­keys pre­fer play­ing with trucks while ado­les­cent female mon­keys pre­fer dolls” — one of the best and most intrigu­ing sen­tences I have come across in some time.

Scott Adams Blog: Pref­er­ences 09/05/2012

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The num­ber two per­son receives only 2/3 what the num­ber one per­son receives? Wow. For a health­i­er mod­el, I rec­om­mend one sim­i­lar to the one Ted Hag­gard used at New Life Church. Yes. Ted Hag­gard. He describes it in his book The Life Giv­ing Church. It is sim­i­lar to the mod­el described at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html

How Much Mon­ey Do Megachurch Pas­tors Make?

The study rep­re­sents the The study rep­re­sents the