September 2010
11 posts
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speaking of ambivalence →
Who knew ambivalence was a psychological condition. An interesting article in the WSJ today about why people can’t make decisions.
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“The next best thing to having your stuff burned, if you’re ambivalent, is...”
– The NYT Magazine has an interesting read on Kafka and where his remaining unpublished work is today. I have never read Kafka, and I welcome suggestions on what I should start with.
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The Ketchup Conundrum →
“It was a conundrum: what was true about a yellow condiment that went on hot dogs was not true about a tomato condiment that went on hamburgers..” Kind of a good read on how ketchup is ketchup. By Malcom Gladwell.
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“There was a sense that ‘Oh Jesus will walk on water,’ and now...”
– Jon Stewart on Obama. On the O’Reilly Factor this week.
:<
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one time
a man murdered his girlfriend. He was on PCP and had no memory of it. Neither hypnosis nor drugs released any memory of the deed. The man served time in a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane and accepted his punishment, though he likely was not insane but instead, under the influence of PCP, had violent reactions similar to that during a seizure.
Years later, he suffered a bike...
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in 2 hours
Last night I hosted a group of my business school friends for our first Think and Drink - a bi-weekly meetup for those of us involved in our own businesses or side projects (that’s right, not all MBA’s are bankers). It turned into less of a collaborative workshop and more into a discussion of.. well a lot. Here’s what I learned/pondered.
What percent of our peers know who...
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The Parting of the Red Sea
The biblical story Moses and the Israelites escape across the parted Red Sea may actually be true. Researchers at National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder show that if the winds get to be 63 mph in the Eastern Nile Delta, they could push back the waters, exposing a mud flat about 2.5 miles long and 3 miles wide for four hours. When the wind dies down,...
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“There is really no debate about climate change in China. China’s leaders are...”
– Peggy Liu, chairwoman of the Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, a nonprofit group working to accelerate the greening of China.
From Thomas Friedman’s NYT op-ed about China’s recent developments in addressing climate change versus our lack thereof.
