"Watches prove that beaches weren't designed." I patronize the local atheist boutique to buy bumper stickers, pens, pencils, lapel pins, and badges. This one sat on my desk for a couple of weeks. Then, I had a reply.
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Extremely intelligent people become less happy when they spend more time with their friends. ... More intelligent people "are less likely to spend so much time socializing because they are focused on some other longer term objective," she said. In other words, work is so important to them that they don't have time to...(Read more...)
Mr. Johnson said that the resentment felt towards the super rich in the wake of the financial crisis and "fives years of recession" was irrational.(Read more...)
A link to a New York Post story from Mark J. Perry's "Carpe Diem" blog. Prof. Perry teaches economics at the University of Michigan Flint campus and is currently on sabbatical at the American Enterprise Institute. In addition to a dash of irony, his blog typically presents positive economic news. One of his regular f...(Read more...)
I remember watching this PBS special a few years ago. It was exceptionally good, and very moving. I teared up during several of the stories profiled in the show.
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WASHINGTON The NEA announced that it has begun construction on a $1.3 billion, 14-line lyric poem its largest investment in the nation's aesthetic-industrial complex since the $850 million interpretive-dance budget of 1985. "We need to make sure America's poems remain the biggest, best-designed, best-funded poem...(Read more...)
