February 2012
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Book Review Podcast: The Real 'Downton Abbey' and... →
10 Reasons Your Small Business Shouldn't Start a... →
Black*Eiffel: Paul Octavious →
Conquer Common Stains with the Stain First Aid... →
Three Lessons for Social TV - Amy Jo Martin -... →
3. Measure and share real-time results with viewers. TV networks and shows can put their finger on the pulse of viewer engagement before, during, and after a show airs. It’s traditionally believed that word of mouth is the most influential form of marketing. Consensus matters because it saves time and provides clarity. In the same way we look for book or music recommendations from...
I Want to Go to Go to There: The Hezen Cave Hotel... →
Our Planet, Tangled in Magnetic Spaghetti :... →
Should the conditions be “just right” during a solar storm, for example, the magnetic field of an incoming CME and the magnetosphere may be aligned — or “geo-effective” — so that the two fields snap and reconnect, creating an entry point for energetic solar particles to flood into the outer layers of the Earth’s magnetic field. Geomagnetic storms...
Mindful Eating as Way to Fight Bingeing -... →
Dr. Cheung is convinced that it can. Last week, she met with team members at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and asked them to spend quality time with a chocolate-covered almond.
“The rhythm of life is becoming faster and faster, so we really don’t have the same awareness and the same ability to check into ourselves,” said Dr. Cheung, who, with the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh,...
swissmiss | The Single Sentence Email Project →
In my desperation of finding a solution to my guilt-inducing-email-problem I am considering The Single Sentence Email Project:
“Respond to emails with as few words as possible. Aim for a sentence, but if just a word will do, use it.* It will take practice, and some might dislike it. I argue that this is a fair trade for getting more time to work (and live) productively.”
Thought Catalog And The New Age Of Confessional... →
Matthew Newton: With the traditional journalism model in perpetual upheaval, and brand-influenced content a pervasive and creeping reality, Thought Catalog seems to exist in a strange and sometimes controversial limbo between the two. Does the site have any guiding principles, or is that part still a work-in-progress?
Chris Lavergne: This is a layered question and I’m only going to be able...
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar | Fiction | Books... →
Screenwriter Akhtar makes a strong fiction debut with the coming-of-age story of a Pakistani boy in Milwaukee
Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother’s beautiful, brilliant friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina is leaving Pakistan to live with the Shahs in America, Hayat is thrilled. Hayat’s father is less enthusiastic. Ever wary of...
Glaciers: The Biggest Losers : Discovery News →
The total amount of ice lost to Earth’s oceans from 2003 to 2010 would cover the entire United States in about 1 and one-half feet of water.
Need a Crash Course In Startup Lingo? Brainscape... →
The Growing Trend of a "Connected Life" |... →
VINTAGE & CHIC: decoración vintage para tu casa []... →
The Best Sites to Raise Money and Get Your Ideas... →
Top 10 Ways to Travel Smarter, Safer, and Cheaper →
VINTAGE & CHIC: decoración vintage para tu casa []... →
Will Downton Abbey's Matthew Crawley Ever Be Able... →
Unlikely animal friendships - in pictures | Life... →
Rescuing the Birds Many Love to Hate - NYTimes.com →
Burn Note: The Untraceable, Read Once Email |... →
All communication on Burn Note can be viewed only once. Burn Notes are destroyed immediately after they have been viewed by the recipient and completely extinguished from the Burn Note servers. Burn Notes are never stored in the recipient’s email and once read it is impossible for anyone to retrieve them.
Set Regular Email Reminders for These 5 Home... →
Snooki, 'Housewives' and the Reality of Celebrity... →
» The Two-Headed Beast of Successful Habit Change... →
With Groupon As Sitcom Setting Will Others Follow... →
It was probably only a matter of time before a TV producer decided that Groupon—whose chief executive Andrew Mason has his own in-office outhouse after all—was ripe fodder for a sitcom.
Entertainment Weekly reports that among the comedy pilots picked up by CBS is one that partially takes place in the Los Angeles “headquarters” of the daily deal startup, which is actually based in...
Bravo, Oxygen, Style boss Lauren Zalaznick's... →
Former Bravo president and current NBC executive Lauren Zalaznick is undoubtedly very smart and responsible for much of what I love on television. She also made a ridiculous argument that suggest she has very different relationships to her shows than viewers do.
“I reject easy slams like ‘train wreck’ and ‘guilty pleasure. It’s just not a good enough description of why people actually watch...
Lisa Steinberg: Role Models in Reality TV →
The vicious cycles of promoting sensationalized drama are what keep networks churning out more of these over hyped programs and adding money into their pockets. What’s addicting to some; may be atrocious to others. Reality programs can always be compared to a car accident, you shouldn’t look, but you just can’t turn away. The famous Dr. Seuss quote always comes to mind when I...
Supermarket May Cancel Carbon Labeling Scheme :... →
Immigrants, Patents and Silicon Valley - Forbes →
A Duke University study by Vivek Wadhwa found, “In 2006, foreign nationals residing in the United States were named as inventors or co-inventors in an astounding 25.6 percent of patent applications filed from the United States.”
“Foreign students, skilled immigrants, and doctorates in science and engineering play a major role in driving scientific innovation in the United States,” according...
In Silicon Valley, Socks Make the Tech... →
FOR barristers in 18th-century London, it was shoulder-grazing wigs. For the Mad men of 1950s New York, it was briefcases and fedoras. For the glass-ceiling-shattering women of the 1980s, it was shoulder pads. And for today’s tech entrepreneurs in high-flying Silicon Valley, it is flamboyantly colored, audaciously patterned socks. In a land where the uniform — jeans, hoodies and flip-flops —...
The Big Idea: Saladin Ahmed – Whatever →
Cafe Spice's Indian Food Ambition - Businessweek →
Owner Sushil Malhotra wants to make chicken tikka masala as popular in the U.S. as KFC
'Star'-Crossed: When Teens With Cancer Fall In... →
You wouldn’t necessarily think of a cancer support group as a place where teens meet and fall in love — but that’s exactly what happens to Hazel and Augustus, the young protagonists in The Fault in Our Stars, the latest from author John Green.
Hazel is 16 — she has thyroid cancer with a “satellite” in the lungs that makes her feel like she’s drowning. Augustus,...
On Being Blog: Desecrated Bodies, Dashed Hopes →
beingblog:
by Arezou Rezvani, guest contributor
Shia mourners splash water onto a tomb during a traditional burial ritual in Bahrain. (phoot: Al Jazeera English)
When a video of U.S. Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban fighters became international headline news last month,…
tumbLAngeles: BBC Worldwide Productions is seeking... →
tumblangeles:
BBC WORLDWIDE PRODUCTIONS IS LOOKING FOR COUPLES
FOR A DOCUMENTARY
Are you currently in a relationship?
Are you recently married? Is marriage what you thought it would be?
Are you currently deciding whether or not to get married?
Perhaps you want to settle down, but…
Why Being Fearless Matters So Much: A Conversation... →
The only thing I could have done to make them accept me was to water everything down — and I wasn’t prepared to do that.’
Showtime's David Nevins On What It Takes To Make... →
How are the changes in platforms and the way people consume TV changing the way you tell stories?
I think every year the audience gets more sophisticated and more demanding in terms of the amount of information and narrative that they can process. I like things that are full and stuffed and go in a lot of directions at once. I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at...
“I create silence by subtracting, and not filling the resulting emptiness withe...”
– » Creating Silence from Chaos :zenhabits