Category: Of Random Interest

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Pan­el two rais­es a point I had not con­sid­ered before. Very amus­ing.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Debunk a Fright­en­ing Myth

I wrote this one in the days lead­ing up to Com­ic-Con. I don’t think I need to explain beyond th…

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I love com­ic strips. “That shirt’s got more holes than a Goth chick­’s nose.” I might actu­al­ly use that line some­day.

Get Fuzzy by Dar­by Con­ley, August 26, 2012 Via @GoComics

House­cats are known to be aloof, but cat-titude reach­es new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bit­ing­ly hilar­i­ous com­ic strip from car­toon­ist Dar­by Con­ley. Avail­able dai­ly and Sun­day and appear­ing in 650 newsp…

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I would say that with the excep­tion of rule #4, this 100% applies to church sound guys. But most of them are sin­gle and are fans of rule #4 as well. 🙂

Sound booth guest rules. — Imgur

Imgur is used to share pho­tos with social net­works and online com­mu­ni­ties, and has the fun­ni­est pic­tures from all over the Inter­net.

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This is kin­da cool. So there are twen­ty moments in a minute?

Do we expe­ri­ence life in 3 sec­ond chunks? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Ever won­dered how long a hug lasts? The quick answer is about 3 sec­onds, accord­ing to a new study of the post-com­pe­ti­tion embraces of Olympic ath­letes. But the long answer is more pro­found. A hug last…

Hooray For Sanity

I am most grat­i­fied by this deci­sion and hope that it rip­ples out to oth­er uni­ver­si­ties.

Chris­tian­i­ty Today Live­blog: Inter­Var­si­ty Re-Instat­ed As New York Uni­ver­si­ty Decides Lead­er­ship Pol­i­cy Is “Com­mon Sense, Not Dis­crim­i­na­tion”

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

Fabulous Final

This is genius. Wow.

Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tyler Cowen’s Unusu­al Final Exam

Tyler [Cowen] once walked into class the day of the final exam and he said. “Here is the exam. Write your own ques­tions. Write your own answers. Hard­er ques­tions and bet­ter answers get more points.” T…

Amazing Story

I usu­al­ly don’t like sports sto­ries, but this was remark­ably com­pelling.

http://pocket.co/sQbN2

Every Woman and Child For Themself

Fas­ci­nat­ing tid­bit. Does read­ing this increase your ten­den­cy towards egal­i­tar­i­an­ism or com­ple­men­tar­i­an­ism? And how does it make you think about author­i­ty and coer­cion?

More data on sur­vival dur­ing mar­itime dis­as­ters

From Mikael Elin­der and Oscar Erix­son (pdf, final PNAS gat­ed ver­sion here): It’s a wide­spread notion that women and chil­dren are saved first in mar­itime dis­as­ters. The sys­tem­at­ic evi­dence of this come…

Global Crime

How inter­est­ing.

Crime in Europe and the U.S.

Has there been a “rever­sal of for­tune”? Pao­lo Buo­nan­no, Francesco Dra­go, Rober­to Gal­biati, and Giulio Zanel­la step into these treach­er­ous waters with a new paper (pdf): Con­trary to com­mon per­cep­tions…

Be Happy

I hate jour­nal­ing, but I’ve seen find­ings like this so fre­quent­ly that I might have to give it a try.

The most proven tech­nique for increas­ing long term hap­pi­ness: — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Bark­ing up the wrong tree. I want to under­stand why we do what we do and use the answers to be awe­some at life. About. Eric Bark­er; First vis­it? Start here. Bakadesuyo.com is proud to be list­ed on blo…