derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2009 | food, fat, books, reviewsQuoted: BOOKS about recent publications on the fat epidemic, obesity, and overeating. Writer tells about Katherine Flegal, a researcher at the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention. Reviewing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, Flegal noticed that during the nineteen eighties, the number of American adults who…
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2008 | news, baseball, sabermetrics, moneyball, books
Crazy!
Quoted: Brad Pitt is adding to his busy schedule by playing ball for Columbia..Los Angeles, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Columbia pitches 'Moneyball' to Pitt.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 19 2008 | books, cooking, food, shopping
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- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 13 2008 | books, supercapitalism, toread
Quoted: Amazon.com: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books): Robert B. Reich: Books
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 26 2008 | books, design, thermo-reactive ink
Awesome.
Quoted: The book is empty or so it seems. In order to see the text and images the book has to be wrapped in foil and baked at 100°C for 25 minutes.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 14 2007 | drm, books, blogs, amazon, kindle
Ugh. When will the disastrous, failed DRM experiment end?
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2007 | books, movies, blogs, obituaries, ira levin, rosemary's baby
Quoted: Rosemary's Baby (both the book and the movie) is suspenseful and unnerving. Obstetricians of the era warned their pregnant patients not to read the book or see the movie.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 06 2007 | books, neuroscience
Quoted: Amazon.com: Proust Was a Neuroscientist: Books: Jonah Lehrer by Jonah Lehrer
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2007 | books, management, business
Quoted: Don't believe the hype. These “classic” books attract all the attention, but for real business wisdom, read our preferred suggestions instead.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 31 2007 | books, infographics
Don't have time to see Mt Rushmore in your lifetime? Try again in about 7.2 million years.
Quoted: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is a penetrating, page-turning, exploration of how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
- ms.kruse - Dec 19 2006
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