You’re a failure - now get over it

"New research suggests our obsession with success is a handicap."

Greetings from Idiot America

"There's never been a better time to espouse, profit from, and believe in utter, unadulterated crap. And the crap is rising so high, it's getting dangerous."

The pot and how to use it - Roger Ebert's Journal

Cooking with a rice cooker -- sounds great!

When to use i.e. in a sentence

Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It)

Quote of the Day

"Google's Eric Schmidt recently stated that every two days we create as much information as we did from the beginning of civilization through 2003. Perhaps the sheer bulk of data makes it easier to suppress that information which we find overly unpleasant. Who's got time for a victim in Afghanistan or end-of-life issues with all these Tweets coming in?"

- Dave Pell, from http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/08/11/129127690/too-much-information-can-sometimes-mean-we-miss-the-big-picture

America: Land of Loners?

"Americans, plugged in and on the move, are confiding in their pets, their computers, and their spouses. What they need is to rediscover the value of friendship."

Debt Repayment Is a High-Interest No Risk Investment

"Paying off debt you hold turns the rate of interest on that debt into a guaranteed investment. As long as you're paying off the high-interest debt you're essentially earning money by avoiding future fees."

The BP Cover-Up

"BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come."

The Paradox of the False Positive

"That’s the paradox of the false positive. When you try to find something really rare, your test’s accuracy has to match the rarity of the thing you’re looking for."

Quote of The Day

"We've basically decided to keep pumping greenhouse gases into Mother Nature's operating system and take our chances that the results will be benign - even though a vast majority of scientists warn that this will not be so. Fasten your seat belts. As the environmentalist Rob Watson likes to say: "Mother Nature is just chemistry, biology and physics. That's all she is." You cannot sweet-talk her. You cannot spin her. You cannot tell her that the oil companies say climate change is a hoax. No, Mother Nature is going to do whatever chemistry, biology and physics dictate, and "Mother Nature always bats last, and she always bats 1.000," says Watson. Do not mess with Mother Nature. But that is just what we're doing."


- Thomas Friedman, quoting Rob Watson, discussing the U.S. Senate's recent failure to pass climate change legislation.