War – organized war – is not a human instinct. It is a highly planned and cooperative form of theft. And that form of theft began 10,000 years ago, when the harvesters of wheat accumulated a surplus and the nomads rose out of the desert to rob them of what they themselves could not provide. […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
20 minutes at Rucker Park: A streetballer’s cross-country journey from the Deepest Part of Hell to take his shot on New York’s most storied basketball court
2013.12.08 – 16:33
20 minutes at Rucker Park: A streetballer’s cross-country journey from the Deepest Part of Hell to take his shot on New York’s most storied basketball court
Tweet by annekate
2013.12.08 – 15:25
Why is it that every tech company has a cafeteria, gym, game room and wet bar but onsite day care is not a thing? — Anne K. Halsall (@annekate) December 7, 2013 via http://twitter.com/annekate
Newt Gingrich To Conservatives: ‘What Would You Have Done?’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic
2013.12.08 – 08:43
Newt Gingrich To Conservatives: ‘What Would You Have Done?’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic “When Gingrich compliments Mandela on his presidency he doesn’t do so within the context of alleged African pathologies, but within the context of countries throughout the world. It’s a textbook lesson in “How not to be racist,” which is to […]
Apartheid’s Useful Idiots
2013.12.06 – 12:19
Apartheid’s Useful Idiots “But the overall failure of American conservatives to forthrightly deal with South Africa’s white-supremacist regime, coming so soon after their failure to deal with the white-supremacist regime in their own country, is part of their heritage, and thus part of our heritage.”
if it were easy to get out of, nobody’d be in it | Fredrik deBoer
2013.12.06 – 07:33
if it were easy to get out of, nobody’d be in it | Fredrik deBoer “It was vintage Scocca: right on the facts and on the substance, analytically adroit, not quite as good as he clearly thought it was, and perfectly designed to flatter the sensibilities of the average reader of Gawker. “
Childbirth device invented by car mechanic looking at wine bottles
2013.12.05 – 21:37
Childbirth device invented by car mechanic looking at wine bottles This is almost a stereotypical way inventions happen. An expert in one field sees an innovation in a second field and applies it to solve a problem in a third field.
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95
2013.12.05 – 15:37
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95
The Honest Broker: Is Growth Getting Harder? If so, Why, and What Can We Do About It?
2013.12.05 – 15:02
The Honest Broker: Is Growth Getting Harder? If so, Why, and What Can We Do About It? ‘Is this the normal outbreak of “secular stagnation talk” that always comes to the fore during and after every deep cyclical depression? Or are things, this time, really different? What is the argument that we are beginning an […]
The science of self-control: 6 ways to improve your willpower
2013.12.05 – 13:33
The science of self-control: 6 ways to improve your willpower “the willpower response is a reaction to an internal conflict”
Tweet by UserOnboard
2013.12.05 – 11:13
Never mix up features with benefits ever again… pic.twitter.com/rA5sgnnFQc — User Onboarding (@UserOnboard) December 4, 2013 via http://twitter.com/UserOnboard
On Smarm
2013.12.05 – 09:02
On Smarm “Smarm hopes to fill the cultural or political or religious void left by the collapse of authority, undermined by modernity and postmodernity. It’s not enough anymore to point to God or the Western tradition or the civilized consensus for a definitive value judgment. Yet a person can still gesture in the direction of […]
Quote from Tumblr
2013.12.04 – 10:18
We will, in about 40 years time…be able to produce anything we need for virtually nothing. That will destroy the present social, economic and political system… We have spent the last 150,000 years dealing with the problem of scarcity. Every institution, every value system, every aspect of our life has been dictated by the need […]
A Short Checklist for Avoiding Mediocrity in the Gamefication of Loyalty
2013.12.04 – 08:43
A Short Checklist for Avoiding Mediocrity in the Gamefication of Loyalty “Miles programs are oft-touted as the canonically well-constructed and successful loyalty game; my experience “winning” the game has taught me otherwise.”
Quote from Tumblr
2013.12.04 – 00:58
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole! Theodore Levitt kenarneson.tumblr.com
Tweet by rickgoldjr9
2013.12.03 – 20:33
@cuppingmaster C.J. Wilson has a clause in his contract stating he must remain the best-looking player on the team. — Rick Gold (@rickgoldjr9) December 4, 2013 via http://twitter.com/rickgoldjr9
How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big
2013.12.03 – 09:19
How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big Overview of Scott Adams’ new book. Quote: “Success caused passion more than passion caused success. “
Tweet by based_ball
2013.12.03 – 09:07
I imagine most teams that engage in talks with Brian Wilson end up regretting it after about five or six minutes — Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) December 3, 2013 via http://twitter.com/based_ball
Why it’s time to lay the selfish gene to rest
2013.12.03 – 00:37
Why it’s time to lay the selfish gene to rest “There lies the quick beating heart of her argument: the gene follows. And one of the ways the gene follows is through this process called genetic accommodation.”
YouTube: James Burke, The Day The Universe Changed: 4 “Matter Of Fact”
2013.12.02 – 22:55
James Burke, The Day The Universe Changed: 4 “Matter Of Fact” JamesBurkeWeb Channelle