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Providing well-tempered instruments for a sometimes-intemperate world.
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Austin, Texas
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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 6 days ago | news, health, science education
    FT.com - The man who invented exercise

    Quoted: In the early years after the second world war, health researchers in Britain noticed a curious epidemic: people had begun dying of heart attacks in unprecedented numbers. Nobody knew why, and so a scientist in London named Jerry Morris set up a vast study to examine the heart-attack rates in people of different occupations – schoolteachers, postmen, transport workers and more.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 10 days ago | funny
    I flowcharted the Beatles...

    I'd be a bit disappointed if I went to an Edward Tufte lecture series and this flowchart of the lyrics from 'hey Jude' didn't show up at some point.

    I think fondly of the professor's Good Fight every time I find myself sitting in another 'PowerPoint engineering' meeting. Doesn't anybody communicate in complete sentences anymore?

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 10 days ago | history, politics
    Seven Lessons in Strategy from Byzantine Empire

    History lesson from Edward Luttwak, an expert in Byzantine history.

    The Byzantine empire went on and on and on, using rules of statecraft whose wisdom resonates today. The article picks a baker's half-dozen of the author's favorites.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | environment, science, ecology
    Discussion of personal privation vs political action.

    Essay by Derrick Jensen on the Orion Magazine website titled, "Forget Shorter Showers. Why personal change is not a substitute for political change".

    Quoted: We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 24 days ago | work, productivity, programming
    Working hard is overrated - blog entry

    Brief essay by Caterina Fake (formerly of Flickr) on the difference between "working hard" and "freaking out", working on the "right problem", etc. The essay is simple in that she assumes that the reader doesn't take her for a fool (i.e. "work smarter not harder!") but that's her message.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 25 days ago | space, science education

    The best illustration I've ever seen of how the ISS has come together, and what all of the components are & how they fit together and what they do.

    It's even better in the details. If you click on the right-hand tabs, you get a description of each module: even cooler, each description includes a 360" rotation animation for the module.

    USATODAY.com

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 30 days ago | food, japanese

    From the online issue of The Atlantic, introduction to a whole 'nother type of haute cuisine.

    Quoted: The non-Japanese-speaking traveler lucky enough to wind up in a really good kaiseki restaurant thus faces a twofold problem: not only does he lack the words to understand what the food is, he lacks the words to understand what the food means.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 30 days ago | food, health
    Michael Pollan's Favorite Food Rules

    Go ho, go shiki, go mi. Not quite "lather, rinse, repeat" but not bad.

    Quoted: Michael Pollan shares 20 of his favorite food rules sent in by Times readers.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 30 2009 | psychology, science education
    Fun & easy hallucinations for the squeamish

    Fun reading from The Boston Globe website.

    Quoted: (...) The first thing to know is that the mind isn't a mirror, or even a passive observer of reality. Much of what we think of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like hallucinations.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2009 | food, writing, education
    Looking your bacon in the eye: Notes from a slaughter class

    The content is worth reading but the writing (by a University of Illinois grad student) is absolutely first-rate. It's so good, that I started re-reading the article, just to look for errors!

    From the webzine: The Ethicurean

    Quoted: (...) I truly believe that humane slaughter is important and possible, but, as I have been learning, here’s the truth about any slaughter: it is both morally difficult and really gross. (...) With a public unwilling to acknowledge the living nature of their food source, the meat industry has been free to institute practices that no compassionate person can countenance.

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