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FREE BOOKS: 100 legal sites to download literature. A one-of-a-kind marketplace from Steven Soderbergh. - Extension 765. Curator's ǝpoɔ. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: Failing Fast. Author: Steven Zolman.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: Failing Fast

The Do's And Dont's Of Writing Erotic Fiction. Sex is at the heart of what it means to be human.

The Do's And Dont's Of Writing Erotic Fiction

Peter Jennings - Ecstasy Rising Documentary (Full length upload) 9 beliefs of remarkably successful people - Yahoo Finance Canada. I'm fortunate enough to know a number of remarkably successful people.

9 beliefs of remarkably successful people - Yahoo Finance Canada

How to Clean and Sanitize Wet Books. How to Clean Shimano STI Shifters and Brake Levers. Neil asked: How do I clean the Shimano STI shifters and brake levers on my bicycle?

How to Clean Shimano STI Shifters and Brake Levers

My road bike STI shifters and brake levers get gunked up with road grime and sweat and eventually the up-shift won’t work because the ratchet is stuck. Cleaning with degreaser seems to just wash the gunk further into the shifter, plus it coats the contacts of the gear position sensors so the flight-deck computer no longer works because it doesn’t see the correct gear setting. How to Clean and Sanitize Wet Books. Save a Pile of Cash Every Year with These Five Phone Calls. 18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style. Wait but why: Putting Time In Perspective. Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them.

wait but why: Putting Time In Perspective

It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it. If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 11:59:59pm—1 second. And if human history itself spans 24 hours from one midnight to the next, 14 minutes represents the time since Christ. William James on Habit. By Maria Popova.

William James on Habit

Microsoft Word - Open Letter 4 - letter.pdf. World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease. We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong.

World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labelled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol. The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. Do we need to be a lot more careful about publicly lauding doctors who support paleo principles. There's been a lot of press recently around Dwight Lundell, MD - a retired heart surgeon who is cited in at least one traditional food blog as "an accomplished surgeon".

Do we need to be a lot more careful about publicly lauding doctors who support paleo principles

He had a SOTT.net article in which he sounded reasonably in line with paleo principles. He's even had a recent March 17 Fox News appearance. Like others, I had the impulse to trumpet this, "Heart Surgeon says yadayadagrassfedsaturatedfatisgoodyadayada. The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors. “Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said.

The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors

This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates — “to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.” Maps. No, you're not entitled to your opinion.

Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once.

No, you're not entitled to your opinion

First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning. Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’ Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself, maybe to head off an argument or bring one to a close. Well, as soon as you walk into this room, it’s no longer true. List of Free Science Books. Sending your Smart Phone to Med School. Is alcohol more dangerous than ecstasy?" Scientists in Britain are proposing a complete revamping of drug classifications in the wake of findings that reveal some major discrepancies between a drug's legality and its safeness. A study surveying health, crime and science professionals regarding the dangers of a set of 20 legal and illegal drugs, published in The Lancet in March 2007, found that alcohol and tobacco, which are legal in Britain and the United States, are considered by experts to be more dangerous than ecstasy and marijuana, which are illegal in both countries.

In Britain, under the Misuse of Drugs Act, illegal drugs (including prescription drugs sold on the street) are classified as A, B or C. Class A is supposed to be the most harmful, and Class C is supposed to be the least harmful. For instance, heroin is a class A drug, and marijuana is a class C drug. Probably the most notable discrepancy is the position of alcohol, a legal drug, at 13 places above ecstasy, an illegal, class A drug. Luzinterruptus Creates a Stunning Light Installation Featuring Hundreds of Giant Raindrops.

This past May Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus took over Campo de la Cebada in Madrid, a site earmarked for the construction of a public facility, and created an interactive installation using 800 condoms filled with blue-dyed water and tiny lights. The project titled "Prophylactic Rain that Doesn’t Wet Anything" aimed to take control of the public space creating a meeting place for curious tourists and locals who were invited to interact with the squeezable, and sinuous raindrops. The exhibit ended predictably when local children decided to use the raindrops as little piñatas and started bursting the condoms with sharp objects to get the shiny surprises hidden inside. Find out more about the project here. via [IanBrooks]

Four Noble Truths. Shambala Warrior Mind Training 6 (Photo credit: Triratna Photos) ” In my ten years as a Soto Zen Buddhist, I’ve considered the distinctions between activity and quiet at length. I have never been in danger of escaping to my cushion, of hiding behind a passive Buddhist face. I have a noisy mind, a restless body; my flaws have always been active ones. I envied the placid tempers of some of my fellow trainees.

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