January 2011
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Misery Has More Company Than People Think. →
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Recipe: More-Vegetable-Than-Egg Frittata. →
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“The choices we have to make when traveling — where to eat, where to go, what to...”
– Rob Horning The New Inquiry.
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“Invariably, when I’m on vacation in an unfamiliar city, basic routines of...”
– Rob Horning on feeling like a tourist. (Read it all at The New Inquiry).
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“There’s a debate in our culture about what really makes us happy, which is...”
– What the science of human nature can teach us, The New Yorker
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Awkward Silences: 4 Seconds Is All It Takes to... →
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“It is hard to gauge just how strongly people object to inequality. A recent poll...”
– A special report on global leaders: The rise and rise of the cognitive elite The Economist
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“Imagine that the entire adult population of America is walking past you in a...”
– Jan Pen, a Dutch economist who died last year, came up with a striking way to picture inequality. The Economist.
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The Trouble With Bright Girls | Psychology Today →
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Watch- Yokoo’s Archived Image-Library for the month of January, 2011.
Isn’t this beautiful. Before Tumblr, I never fully appreciated that I live a 99% written word-based life and that some people live almost entirely visually. (Of course, there’s also people who live highly musically. Some physically. Some people live almost entirely spoken-wordly. These last are normally people I...
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Why it’s taken so long for Scandinavian fare to... →
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Five Emotions Invented By The Internet: Thought... →
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Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg,... →
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“Thinking for yourself means finding yourself, finding your own reality. Here’s...”
– Solitude and Leadership, a speech delivered to West Point Military Academy by William Deresiewicz, The American Scholar
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“… we haven’t got the time to ‘join in’ and...”
– How much more participation can you handle? Made by Many
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“I started writing Pynchonian letters to my then-fiancee, and I think it’s...”
– Jonathon Franzen in the Paris Review paper version via FYI or die.
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“BLACK SWAN BLACK SWAN BLACK SWAN BLACK SWAN BLACK SWAN BLACK SWAN BLACK SWAN...”
– Just saw Black Swan.
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Your brain is "fairly plastic" and you can make... →
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“The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that...”
– JFK’s Harvard application. “Harvard’s application in those days was all of three pages long, and Kennedy’s “essay,” date April 23, 1935, was a mere five handwritten sentences.”
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The Most Emailed 'New York Times' Article Ever |... →
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“Still call Australia Home,”...
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“Dear Amy Tan” is from eBay or Paypal, telling me I have either paid for...”
– How to start and end an email, Amy Tan
WatchSofia Coppola talks about “Somewhere” (2010) (by Artforum) Surely saying you didn’t know how to end your movie is a terrible admission.
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“It is what the internet lures out of us – hubris, daydreams, avarice, obsessions...”
– How novels came to terms with the internet, The Guardian. (via playingexclaiming)
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