Category: Of Random Interest

The bit about amne­sia made me laugh out loud. Wow.

Do sleep­ing pills like Ambi­en work because of the place­bo effect? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Join 25K+ sub­scribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Sleep­ing pills on aver­age only make peo­ple fall asleep 12 min­utes faster and sleep 11 min­utes longer dur­ing the night. The place­bo effect m…

Very inter­est­ing — and con­trary to what you nor­mal­ly hear. Be sure to read the pieces linked to in the adden­dum.

Racism by Polit­i­cal Par­ty

It is unde­ni­ably the case that racist Amer­i­cans are almost entire­ly in one polit­i­cal coali­tion and not the oth­er. Chris Hayes, Up w/ Chris Hayes, August 18, 2012. Here is data ask­ing whites the quest…

Osborne brings his usu­al wis­dom — espe­cial­ly point 3.

SLOW DOWN – YOU MOVE TOO FAST!

Because North Coast Church has been some­what inno­v­a­tive over the years and suc­cess­ful­ly made lots of changes, I’m often asked by oth­er pas­tors and lead­ers about the best way to go about mak­ing majo.…..

It is dif­fi­cult to over­state my pes­simism about the tra­jec­to­ry of Chi­na’s econ­o­my.…  I hope I am wrong but I deeply fear anoth­er big blow to the glob­al finan­cial sys­tem. Google for “Chi­nese Ghost Cities” to have your socks scared off.

To the point (Aus­tro-Chi­nese busi­ness cycle the­o­ry)

“There is per­sua­sive evi­dence to con­clude that the Chi­nese econ­o­my is actu­al­ly grow­ing at just 4 or 5 per cent right now based on a com­pos­ite of oth­er indi­ca­tors,” says Patrick Chovanec, a busi­ness pr…

Inter­est­ing way to think about it.

Does new infor­ma­tion slow down your life?

From William Reville, here is a spec­u­la­tion: Final­ly, here is a “guar­an­teed” way to length­en your life. Child­hood hol­i­days seem to last for­ev­er, but as you grow old­er time seems to accel­er­ate. “Time” …

Yet anoth­er rea­son to view divorce (and the soci­etal sys­tems that make it easy) neg­a­tive­ly. Mar­riage mat­ters.

What’s the sin­gle strongest pre­dic­tor you will die an ear­ly death? — 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…

The grow­ing dis­con­nect between those who make deci­sions about the use of mil­i­tary force and those who are called upon to ful­fill their deci­sions has been dis­turb­ing me for a while. But this fact caught me off guard.

Tweets to pon­der

Also: no mil­i­tary ser­vice among either prez/VP nom­i­nees, Sco­tus jus­tices, Sen­ate leader and (save 8 weeks) House speak­er. That thought has a lega­cy through David Leon­hardt and Sarah Wilcox.

Wait. What? I need more infor­ma­tion.

Is less vio­lent TV and more edu­ca­tion­al TV the answer to bet­ter behaved kids? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Join 25K+ sub­scribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: No. Edu­ca­tion­al TV increased phys­i­cal aggres­sion at school almost as much as vio­lent TV. And the more edu­ca­tion­al TV a kid watched, the cru…

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 …

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…