May 2009
“It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be: you came up with...”
– Cynical-C Blog - » Quote of the Night
“When we praise people who do work that is straightforwardly useful, the praise...”
– The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com
“They can’t make any decisions, because they don’t know what they want, and they...”
– Welcome to Your Quarterlife Crisis - EYE WEEKLY
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is...”
– http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html
“YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.
This is a curious rule and it took...”
– http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html
“Israel’s internal intelligence service urged the public Monday to exercise...”
– Israeli intelligence issues Facebook warning
“Researchers found that venture capitalists, who screen hundreds or thousands of...”
– V.C.’s Ignore Business Plans, Study Finds - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com
“Just one milligram of the trail pheromone used by some species of attine ants to...”
– The Superior Civilization - The New York Review of Books
“[ant nests] can contain nearly two thousand individual chambers, some with a...”
– The Superior Civilization - The New York Review of Books
“It’s the anniversary of the printing of the first known book. In the year...”
– Go Into The Story: Happy Birthday: Books!
“During the campaign, Barack Obama gave me the Vulcan greeting at a fundraiser”
– Leonard Nimoy: ‘Star Trek’ fans can be scary | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times
“and crying… for the people I didn’t kill, and for the people who are going to...”
– Confessions of a Man Who Almost Went Postal - The Daily Beast
“the Great Barrier Reef will be “functionally extinct” by 2050”
– What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia - Los Angeles Times
“Something is happening in Australia,” firefighter Dan Condon of the...”
– What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia - Los Angeles Times
“making something out of nothing, overturning the laws of time and space,...”
– Writing for a living: a joy or a chore?: nine authors give their views | Books | The Guardian
“Sitting alone in a room for hours while essentially talking in your head about...”
– Writing for a living: a joy or a chore?: nine authors give their views | Books | The Guardian
“Smartness is a competitive advantage everywhere. We see the widespread...”
– The Technium: Inevitable Minds
“starting your work day concentrating on your most important task for 90 minutes”
– Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com
“the Windscale reactors have been in the process of being decommissioned since...”
– Damn Interesting » The Windscale Disaster