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misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 10 2009 | literature, education, university, essay, career
Now a book of the same title.
Quoted:As a natural-born child of the meritocracy, I'd been amassing momentum my whole life, entering spelling bees, vying for forensics medals, running my mouth in mock United Nations meetings and model state governments and student congresses, and I knew only one direction: forward, onward. I lived for prizes, praise, distinctions, and I gave no thought to any goal higher or broader than my next report card. Learning was secondary; promotion was primary. No one had ever told me what the point was, except to keep on accumulating points, and this struck me as sufficient. What else was there?
Quoted: We laughed at the notion of "authorial intention" and concluded, before reading even a hundredth of it, that the Western canon was illegitimate ... we skipped straight from ignorance to revisionism, deconstructing a body of literary knowledge that we'd never constructed in the first place
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 7 hours ago | health, water pollution, drinking water
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 9 hours ago | video, comedy, humor, funny, Microsoft
click to playQuoted: How one Microsoft employee didn't "bing" good enough for Steve Ballmer.
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 8 days ago | investment, investing, $, stock
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 8 days ago | stock, investing, investment, $
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 14 days ago | art, books, review, 2009, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, literature
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 15 days ago | engineering, computers, systems
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | travel, blogs, shopping
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2009 | Health and Wellness, research, exercise, body, bone
Quoted: ompetitive swimmers had lower-than-anticipated bone density, others that competitive cyclists sometimes had fragile bones and, finally, some studies suggesting, to the surprise of many researchers, that weight lifting did not necessarily strengthen bones much.
Quoted: Professor Robling and others say, only certain types of exercise adequately bend bones and move the fluid to the necessary bone cells. An emerging scientific consensus seems to be, he says, that “large forces released in a relatively big burst” are probably crucial.
Quoted: Running can be, although for unknown reasons, it doesn’t seem to stimulate bone building in some people. Surprisingly, brisk walking has been found to be effective at increasing bone density in older women, Dr. Barry says. But it must be truly brisk.
Quoted: There seems to be a plateau, however, that has also surprised and confounded some researchers. Too much endurance exercise, it appears, may reduce bone density.
Quoted: current state-of-the-science message about exercise and bone building may be that, silly as it sounds, the best exercise is to simply jump up and down,
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 11 2009 | Radiohead, film, movie, documentary, video, music
click to playRockumentary shot during the 'OK Computer' Tour
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 06 2009 | iphone, Touch, Apple, shopping, applications, apps
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