the game of life
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Make a List. And a List of the Lists.
February 15th, I embarked on what I call my Great Medical Adventure. I had a series of debilitating seizures (a new and terrifying experience) that treated me to a delightful ride with EMS to a less-than-delightful local hospital (doctors, nurses, and staff were great) followed up by a brain biopsy. Results are pending, but it Read more
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WuFlu and the Urban Chicken Movement
San Antonios have become chickenistas! Lots of folks are hoping to avoid egg shortages by raising their own chickens. “When we get them in, it’s been a mad dash for the chickens,” said Cathy Sullivan, who works at Strutty’s Feed and Pet Supply store in Spring Branch. “We’ve had shipments of 300 to 350 per Read more
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Coronavirus vs. Hipster Beards
Will full beards be the next casualty of the coronavirus? Check out the CDC’s guide to respirator-friendly facial hair styles: Tip from Drudge, who wouldn’t know a permalink if it bit him on the butt. Read more
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College is Vastly Overrated
Charles Cook thinks College Does Not Make You a Better Person. In a 1780 letter to Abigail, John Adams wrote that he “must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy,” while his “sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order Read more
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You can teach yourself
Tara Westover gives the Big Reveal about education My parents would say to me all the time: you can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you. Which I really think is true. I hate the the word “disempower,” because it seems kind of cliché, but I do think that we Read more
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“I want to make this the best I can for them”
While the Man dithers in the aftermath of the Camp Fire, trying to get his sh*t togther, the Little Folks get it I say “That seems like a thankless task.” “Not at all,” she replies. “Not at all.” “Really? Why the hell not?” “Hey, I do this job every day in this store. It’s my Read more
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Trash, White Trash, and REAL Trash
Writing in Oxford American, Chris Offutt’s Trash Food almost gets it right: My thoughts and feelings were completely irrational. I knew they made no sense. Most of what I owned had belonged to someone else—cars, clothes, shoes, furniture, dishware, cookbooks. I liked old and battered things. They reminded me of myself, still capable and functioning Read more
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To tattoo or not tattoo?
Young, and looking to get a great job? You might think twice about getting a tatto and sending the world the wrong message: We collect numerous measures of time preferences and impulsivity of tattooed and non-tattooed subjects and find broad-ranging and robust evidence that those with tattoos, especially visible ones, are more short-sighted and impulsive Read more
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Everybody can do something better than you can
Rachel DiCarlo Currie explains Why We Need a Revival of Humility. Here’s the money quote Shortly before leaving the Senate, Kyl spoke to Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard and described a childhood trip to his local county fair in Iowa. Upon arriving at the fair, Kyl said, his father made sure that he saw Read more
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I Call Bullshit!
I want this course in the catalog at my university. Way better than “critical thinking” or “research methods.” Tip from Open Culture. Read more
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