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Build your own HiFi speakers from scratch and hear the difference! This is a great starter project, good enough to introduce hobbyists to the world of quality audio. My setup cost me less than a $100. There’s a Word for That: 25 Expressions You Should Have in Your Vocabulary. Recently I came across this amazing little Tumblr named ‘OtherWordly‘ – itself a play on words.
It consists of a collection of strange and lovely words from different languages through different times. What I like most about this selection of consonants and vowels – little meaning-carrying packages of vibration – is that they all try to point to the unspeakable, the transient or the neglected. That which we forget in the busyness of our daily grind. 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers. Barry Miles's top 10 counterculture books. Barry Miles is the author of biographies of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and other books about the Beat Generation.
He wrote the authorised Paul McCartney biography as well as books on Frank Zappa and other rock'n'roll heroes. Among his studies of the counterculture are In the Sixties; Hippie; Let Me Take You Higher and, his most recent, London Calling, a Countercultural History of London Since 1945, which is published in paperback this month by Atlantic Books.
Greatest book on counter culture. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.
It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Why You Are Suffering from a Modafinil Deficiency. People familiar with The Bulletproof Executive soon come to realize that I am obsessed with things that cause a big impact with little effort.
Call it enlightented laziness or the relentless pursuit for personal perfection, if there is any difference between them. It’s time to write about Modafinil, the performance-enhancing smart drug that belongs in your bag of biohacker tricks, at least some of the time. My experiment with smart drugs. It was in March, in the drizzle, that I realized my brain was burned out.
What would you like to see in a nootropic book aimed at beginners? : Nootropics. Rolling Stone story: ‘Building A Better Brain: Wired on Nootropics’, November 2012 - Andrew McMillen - A freelance journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. This is his portfolio of published work. How many people read books in the world. Books to read while you are in college. Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath: He explains why Christopher Chabris’ criticisms of his book were unreasonable. Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Tropfest Some years ago I ran across an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
It was written by two academics, and it talked, in passing, about my second book, Blink. Social Isolation, Not Just Feeling Lonely, May Shorten Lives. Feeling lonely seems to go hand in hand with being isolated, but there’s a difference, according to a growing body of research.
It’s no secret that people who are socially isolated tend to be at greater risk of health issues, from mood disorders like depression to stress-related chronic conditions like heart disease. But what is really responsible for these negative outcomes — the emotional toll of feeling alone or the physical and social lack of contact with others? Now a new study suggests that being socially isolated may have a greater effect on risk of early death, especially among the elderly. The research, which was led by Andrew Steptoe, a professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London, followed 6,500 British people over 52 from 2004 until 2012. (MORE: How Feeling Lonely Can Shorten Your Life) They offer several explanations for the health risks linked to isolation. How to use books for lyric and song writing. Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time (100 books)
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