February 2012
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"I wish I hadn't worked so hard."
“This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.”
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January 2012
19 posts
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““The use of tools is a big part of what make us human, and the computer is...”
– “Coding for Success” and why we need to teach our kids to code [via kernelmag]
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“Instead of adapting to the internet, media companies are using the law to change...”
– “Killing Creativity” [via the economist // reddit]
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“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate...”
– E.B. White [via Letters of Note]
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December 2011
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"Why We Haven't Met Any Aliens" →
Paleontology has shown that organic life evolved quickly after the Earth’s surface cooled and became life-hospitable. Given simple life forms, evolution shows progressive trends toward larger bodies, brains, and social complexity. Evolutionary psychology has revealed several credible paths from simpler social minds to human-level creative intelligence. So evolving intelligence seems...
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November 2011
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“Young people who move to an apartment or get a house for the first time don’t...”
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“The children are our future, and they’re not paying for TV”
Industry brass finally admit the obvious: TV as we know it is on its last breath.
October 2011
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America’s harsh prohibitionist drug policies are grounded in the premise that the prohibited substances have little or no redeeming value and cannot be used without life-destroying consequences. Yet the evidence of its falsity is undeniable. Here is one of the most admired men in America, its greatest contemporary industrialist, hailing one of the most scorned of these substances as...
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