I have a lot of friends from Singapore and so I’ve heard a lot of Singaporean stories, but this one is over-the-top even for Singapore. Wow.

The culture that is Singapore

A Singapore property developer is targeting the super rich with parking problems by marketing luxury apartments that allow owners to keep their cars next to their living rooms, even if they are on the…

This is one thing I miss about reading books on a Kindle — I have less flexibility in how I mark them up. On the plus side, it’s easier to snag a verbatim quote.

Annotating Texts: Some Suggestions (with Pictures!)

A friend of mine who is also a doctoral student recently asked if I had any sort of system for how I annotate books, particularly primary texts. It was an interesting question, because annotating book…

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…

If You Forget You Are Sad, Are You?

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…