Category Archives: Health & Recreation

When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain’s Internal Timewarp (via Popular Science)

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Interesting article about how the brain perceives time: When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain’s Internal Timewarp | Popular Science

What’s Your Workout with Tonya Shaw (via WSJ.com)

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WSJ.com has an article about the workout routine of my fiancée’s brother’s girlfriend. She is, shall we say, “intense!” What’s Your Workout with Tonya Shaw

Urban Garden Grows New Lives (via cbs2chicago.com)

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“Got some worms down here!” says my brother Noah at the beginning of this video. CBS 2 News covered the work he’s doing with Cob Connection: Growing food. Working in the soil. Bringing trees to Chicago neighborhoods, one block at a time. That’s the focus of one inner-city organization with a garden in one of [...]

House Democrats report increased threats since health care vote – CNN.com

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Old news by now, but still shocking: Democratic congressional leaders Wednesday demanded Republicans join them in condemning a spate of threats and vandalism that has followed Sunday’s vote on a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system. Aren’t these right wing nuts (“Wingnuts”?) the ones that called you a traitor if you said anything [...]

pierce this Great Eye: darling tatiana

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Pierce this Great Eye is a blog by a very interesting artist that he uses to share things that provide inspiration. I really enjoy this post from March 24: pierce this Great Eye: darling tatiana

The View: Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs Ad ‘Despicable’ (via HuffingtonPost.com)

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Passionate response to negative health care reform ads on The View, even from Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs Ad ‘Despicable’ (VIDEO) Whoopi says, any violence will be on inciters’ hands: “Let me tell you about people who tell you to do stuff, you notice they are not doing it…they are at home, they’re [...]

Kicking and Screaming: Noah Baumbach Grows Up with ‘Greenberg’ (via indieWIRE)

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Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming was a sort of Bible for me and my college friends. Mr. Jealousy has a lot in common with the one big breakup in my life. The Squid and the Whale is eerily close to home for me also. Somehow this guy’s work resonates with my own experience in a rare [...]

Halley’s Comet, Or Why We Need Photographs (via Gizmodo)

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When Halley’s Comet blew through the neighborhood last, I was almost 10, and old enough to grasp the cosmic importance of seeing it with my own eyes. I did the math: the next time the “snowy dirtball” would do a flyby, I’d be dead or really freakin’ old. Unfortunately, I was not old enough to [...]

Malcolm Gladwell on human potential (via PopTech)

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Why this guy (and people like him) aren’t our policy makers I’ll never understand. This speech is inspiring because its grounded in science and tells us how much better we can be without beating us over the head with our failures: Pop sociologist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has honed in on a profound new [...]

How To: Hide Your “Collection” (via Gizmodo)

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Got pr0n? Sure you do! Do you share your ‘puter, too? Oh no. Then you need to read this: How To: Hide Your “Collection” – How to hide your porn – Gizmodo

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