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Propaganda and Debating Techniques. How To Deprogram Your Own Mind. The science of cute. Let’s pretend that a mewling, pooping annoying small thing is deposited in your lap.

The science of cute

There Are 10 Ways Women Can Score A One-Night-Stand, Says Science. Scientists are always so serious and science-y.

There Are 10 Ways Women Can Score A One-Night-Stand, Says Science

Just kidding! This time, they came up with a list of tips on how women can have one-night-stands, based upon new research that states that men find it desirable when women are “sexually exploitable.” Apparently, women are hardwired to view males unlikely to help them raise offspring and survive as scrubby, bad mates. But women with lower standards! Those are the ones men have adapted to become attracted to. Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks. This is an age of assholism simply because we find the phenomenon and its practitioners so interesting — or provocative, or compelling, or compellingly repulsive, or sometimes all of those at once.

Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks

I’m not thinking so much of assholes of opportunity like Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson, or of incidental assholes like James Cameron or Brett Favre, whose assholism only adds a colorful sidebar to an independently impressive career. Technosexual Desire For The Mechanical Bride. Sight: A Vision Of The Not-Too-Distant Future. Heading Out on Your Own – Day 5: Create a Weekly Attack Plan. The Lost Art of Thinking Before You Act. What's the Big Idea?

The Lost Art of Thinking Before You Act

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek is fundamentally anti-capitalist, and yet, the man who describes himself as a “complicated Marxist” also expresses palpable irritation at the idea that capitalists are nothing more than egomaniacal psychopaths. In a recent interview with Big Think, he told us that although he’s highly critical of capitalism in his work, when asked about it in public, he’s tempted to detail all the things that are great about it. Watch the interview: China’s wealthy and influential sometimes hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences. Illustration by Robert Neubecker.

China’s wealthy and influential sometimes hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences

In May 2009, a wealthy 20-year-old was drag racing through the city streets of Hangzhou, China, when his Mitsubishi struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The car was traveling so fast that the victim—a 25-year-old telecom engineer of a modest, rural background—was flung at least 20 yards. Afterward, bystanders and reporters photographed the driver, Hu Bin, as well as his rich friends, who nonchalantly smoked cigarettes and laughed while waiting for the police to arrive at the scene. These images, soon posted online, provoked a public outcry. Leadership Lessons from Dwight D. Eisenhower #4: Always Ready.

Supreme Allied Commander.

Leadership Lessons from Dwight D. Eisenhower #4: Always Ready

Head of the American Occupation Zone in Germany. Chief of Staff. President of Columbia University. Supreme Commander of NATO. President of the United States of America. Aurora Dark Knight Shooting: the Men Protected the Women. Pool photo by Aaron Ontiveroz/Denver Post via Getty Images. In the movies the Dark Knight does not always save his lady, but in the Aurora theater the story unfolded differently. The male instinct to rescue and protect kicked in the way it does in less complicated superhero tales. At least three of the 12 victims of the shooting died because they were physically protecting the women they came to the movie with. Alex Teves, 24, used his body as a shield to cover his girlfriend.

He was shot, and she survived. My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids vs. Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher. Point When I graduated college last year, I was certain I wanted to make a real difference in the world. After 17 years of education, I felt an obligation to share my knowledge and skills with those who needed it most. After this past year, I believe I did just that. A Man Is Punctual: The Reasons You’re Late and How to Always Be on Time. Read Part I: The Importance of Being on Time Being punctual is a skill any man can master; it doesn’t take any special talents or abilities.

A Man Is Punctual: The Reasons You’re Late and How to Always Be on Time

But even if you feel it’s an important trait to develop, you may still struggle with being on time and find the habit of always running late extremely difficult to overcome. Each time you’re tardy, you re-commit to becoming more punctual, and yet soon find yourself running behind once again. Hotmail - puhnner. How to Think. Cultures that endure carve out a protected space for those who question and challenge national myths. Artists, writers, poets, activists, journalists, philosophers, dancers, musicians, actors, directors and renegades must be tolerated if a culture is to be pulled back from disaster. Jonah Lehrer On Creativity And What Makes People Successful. Robert Greene and 50 Cent's 50th Law. Anchower's Gotta Spend Some Time Away. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills.

Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills

You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills. Dennis Mckenna: A New Theory Of Neural Evolution. An Unimagined Success. Editor’s note: This is guest post from Marcus Brotherton.

An Unimagined Success

It originally ran on Men Who Lead Well (www.marcusbrotherton.com). How many times have we hoped for a specific type of success, only to have it elude us? Why Tolerance Is Not a Virtue. By Megan Erickson What's the Big Idea?

Why Tolerance Is Not a Virtue

There are not only wrong answers -- there are also wrong questions, says Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author of Big Think's most recent Book of the Month. And sometimes the way we ask a question obscures the answer. Watch the interview: For example, "Did you notice how almost automatically we tend to translate issues of sexism, racism or ethnic violence, whatever, into the terms of tolerance?

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