Mary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm
Another fun talk from TED…
Entertaining 16 minutes 40 seconds…
Another fun talk from TED…
Entertaining 16 minutes 40 seconds…
i just picked up a print of one of JR’s seminal works to hang on my wall, The Holy Tryptich. It’s smart, it gels with my outlook on life, and it puts a smile on my face – i adore this kind of art.
The message is clear: Regardless of religious and political affiliation, we are all the same.
Copy + Paste from Bloomberg (my highlights in blue):
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTiltPoker.com and similar Web sites.
“They’ve essentially been the survivors in the system, a very difficult system where 95 percent of people lose money,” the 30-year-old Adams, who plays at the site, said in a telephone interview. “Anyone smart enough and disciplined enough to survive that system is probably going to do very well in the trading world.”
An increasing number of hedge funds and brokerages are scrutinizing professional poker to find talent and analytical tools, according to financial recruiters including Options Group, a New York-based executive-search company. Susquehanna International Group LLP, the Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based options and equity trading company, uses poker to teach strategic thinking. … Continue Reading
Try this on for size….
Since 1972, the Himalayan nation of Bhutan adopted an economic policy that stressed wellbeing and the quality of its citizens’ lives, termed Gross National Happiness (GNH), over material growth, or Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The idea of General National Happiness rests on four pillars: economic self-reliance, a pristine environment, the preservation and promotion of Bhutan’s culture, and good governance in the form of a democracy.
Sounds pretty cool. I could get behind that.
Random Fact: The current King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk, is the same age as me.
Links:
Ann Muller (where the photo in this post came from)
Gross National Happiness: Centre of Bhutan Studies
The Kingdon of Bhutan
I distinctly remember the first time I experienced Sleep Paralysis… it was not very fun. Honestly, I was pretty freaked out of my mind….
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Robinson’s TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? “Everyone should watch this.”
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government’s 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His latest book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, a deep look at human creativity and education, was published in January 2009.
Ezra of Fast Boy Cycles built this bike after being diagnosed with “ass cancer.”
Pretty inspirational if you ask me.
Men’s Health, one of the few magazines I still subscribe to, published “50 Ways to Add Years to Your Life” on their website. A lot of it is stuff that was lectured to us as kids growing up, some are still debatable (For example, is coffee really good for you?), there were others that were interesting, like “Stash a Cinnamon Air Freshener in Your Car.”
Here are the ones that stoodout to me: … Continue Reading
Before leaving Los Angeles to go back to Tokyo, MF made and gave me a bracelet (lately, she’s been into making stuff) containing five black disc-shaped beads - they’re supposed to represent the life path number i’m on.
