July 2012
39 posts
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“There was in our culture a fear of guns - fear in the Biblical sense of intense...”
– BBC News - Viewpoint: America’s gun control impasse
“I have lost track of the number of times I have either watched my friends...”
– Lucy Mangan
“There are very few men and women in the first world who aren’t feminists;...”
– Caitlin Moran for The Atlantic
“Office is designed to inputting with a keyboard, not a stylus or a finger,” the...”
– Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant | Vanity Fair
“A management system known as “stack ranking”—a program that forces every unit to...”
– Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
“For infants and toddlers, sensory testing is often conducted at home, since such...”
– Consumer taste tests for children: how food manufacturers tailor research to the very young. - Slate Magazine
“Achild 5 or younger is limited by what psychologists call “centration,” which...”
– Consumer taste tests for children: how food manufacturers tailor research to the very young. - Slate Magazine
“SecondLife has 1 million active users. That’s almost the exact same number it...”
– Philip Rosedale: The Media Is Wrong, SecondLife Didn’t Fail
“Never turn down an open bar. Seek them out and make them a priority. Indulging...”
– 21 Ways You Should Take Advantage Of Your 20s
“Sit down, unplug, and read non-fiction. Do this daily. None of your peers are...”
– 21 Ways You Should Take Advantage Of Your 20s
“Compelling proof of sex addiction? Not even close. That’s the same part of the...”
– You’re Addicted to What? | The Humanist
“The diagnosis of sex addiction is in many ways a diagnosis of discomfort with...”
– You’re Addicted to What? @ The Humanist
“The atmosphere among Guardian staff is turbulent. A reporter tells GQ:...”
– Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian, phone hacking and the future of newspapers - GQ.COM (UK)
“What matters here is that the same digital technologies derided by music purists...”
– How Streaming Music Will Change Culture… for the Better
“Perhaps Steve Jobs’s most significant feat was somehow persuading AT&T to...”
– An often overlooked but key component to the iPhone’s success
“It’s amazing how much media people now have woven into their days. A study shows...”
– Joho the Blog » [aspen] Amanda Michel and Matt Thompson on how the media have changed recently (via paulisakson)
