Monthly Archives: September 2012

Blog: Seth’s Blog: The simplest customer service frustration question of all

The simplest customer service frustration question of all Seth Godin, Seth's Blog

Blog: Ideas Market: Thinking Fast Can Mean Doing Good

Thinking Fast Can Mean Doing Good WSJ Staff, Ideas Market

The GOP Wasted 4 Years on the Wrong Critique of Obama’s Foreign Policy

The GOP Wasted 4 Years on the Wrong Critique of Obama’s Foreign Policy

How to Raise High-Achieving Kids

How to Raise High-Achieving Kids “see that they’re born overseas, but bring them to America before they hit their teens.”

The Marketplace in Your Brain

The Marketplace in Your Brain “One persistent critique of brain-scanning experiments is that while scans show activity in a region, it’s hard to tell if that activity is exciting or inhibiting decision-related nerve impulses. So its exact role in a decision is difficult to pin down. And while there are hints that the scans can […]

Can progressive economists join forces with the church?

Can progressive economists join forces with the church? “And if you look at the history of successful campaigns to effect change in America, they tend to be based overwhelmingly on the power of storytelling, often of the moral variety, rather than on the power (which is always pretty limited) of logical argument. Narratives — stories […]

Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks

Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks “The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer. This is the plague of neuroscientism – aka neurobabble, neurobollocks, or neurotrash – and it’s everywhere.”

Blog: Beaneball: Silence and nerves

Silence and nerves jasonw@beaneball.org (Jason Wojciechowski), Beaneball

Blog: Journal of a Programmer: Data center power efficiency

Data center power efficiency Bryan Pendleton, Journal of a Programmer

Twitter: @williamfleitch

williamfleitch Got to watch the Red Zone Channel for the first time ever this weekend. I wrote about its power for @SportsonEarth. http://t.co/a8P95Q3S

I Entered the RedZone

I Entered the RedZone “I think the RedZone Channel is undeniably a revolutionary way to experience football, and television, and I’m furious that it has taken this long to make its way to my television. But it is not, at its core, football. It is whippets, a hashtag instead of a long read. I love […]

Twitter: @williamfleitch

williamfleitch Got to watch the Red Zone Channel for the first time ever this weekend. I wrote about its power for @SportsonEarth. http://t.co/a8P95Q3S

Blog: Paleofuture: Recapping the “The Jetsons”: Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot

Recapping the “The Jetsons”: Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot Matt Novak, Paleofuture

Blog: Baseball Prospectus: Baseball Therapy: Reading Lolita in Teheran, Part 3: Smoking, Hitting, and the Search for an 80 Brain by Russell A. Carleton

Baseball Therapy: Reading Lolita in Teheran, Part 3: Smoking, Hitting, and the Search for an 80 Brain by Russell A. Carleton (author unknown), Baseball Prospectus

Blog: TED Blog: 12 talks on understanding the brain

12 talks on understanding the brain Kate Torgovnick, TED Blog

Blog: Wonkblog: A Big Mac has 550 calories. McDonald’s customers say: So what?

A Big Mac has 550 calories. McDonald’s customers say: So what? Sarah Kliff, Wonkblog

Twitter: @cwyers

cwyers @DSzymborski EA probably is willing to pay more to have no PC NFL game than any PC-only NFL game maker would be willing to pay to make one.

Twitter / @cwyers

Twitter / @cwyers “@DSzymborski EA probably is willing to pay more to have no PC NFL game than any PC-only NFL game maker would be willing to pay to make one.”

Twitter: @robneyer

robneyer Has anyone invented a word for the desperate feeling that after not looking at Twitter for 48 hours, you might have missed something great?

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Ask TNC Anything: Why Do Americans Love Violent Sports Like Football?

Ask TNC Anything: Why Do Americans Love Violent Sports Like Football? Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan