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2013-04-18 16:18:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Have you missed Girls the TV show yet?

2013-04-18 04:57:55 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

In my ears now: the stop announcement on the Crimson Line:

"Charles - MGH"

Glorious city.

2013-04-17 02:40:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I hope it's good the perpetrator(s) get (limited!) time to read THIS.

2013-04-14 05:24:06 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Insanely good advice. #management #cancerism #death #friend

2013-03-22 08:46:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

SPARC recently released a new community resource for research funders entitled, “Implementing an Open Data Policy”. 

2013-02-14 12:44:57 (11 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Happiness is Difficult Decisions.

Dedicated to everyone who has ever left a loved one for sake of their own fears. THIS is what you missed in your life.

2013-01-10 20:21:09 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I've been called a lampoonist in hiding today. Literally. But the life tempo and the values are on the very edge right now, I can't take that as an offence (no, not without sarcastically laughing at myself). Might be I should appropriate the identity. The Harvard Lampoon is great, for instance. Is there a curriculum for becoming a better lampoonist other that practicing more often?

2013-01-02 20:02:47 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I decided

I decided I'd attempt to exploit the current change to my gain (if anything of the sort can be claimed at all in this quandary), but I appreciated the radical honesty by a dear friend who said "I am so sad it seems you are without options now". People say these things and that triggers a correct, let me call it, "adjustment response". I've been a  good person to deserve people who know what exactly to say!

Sorry for being MIA. I'll be online more often when (if) I adjust to the new demands and challenges.

2012-12-31 22:17:49 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

2012-12-19 13:56:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Speak with conviction. It is not enough these days to simply "question authority", you gotta speak with it too.

2012-12-19 13:34:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Man, I love this.
#DefPoetry  

2012-12-17 15:47:51 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Aw, I remember someone describing her English when she found herself in the lowest "native" quintile. Now here I am myself. In the "native" bracket, FTW.

2012-12-14 04:44:41 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This was not happening until today.  Now many times I try to post something, the "Also send email to Your circles" is checked, and I have to constantly keep un-checking it.  Why is this now occurring?

2012-12-14 03:48:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Even if you ditched your TV

I've been wanting to award "Raising Hope" with my very special award for celebrating humanity since some time now, and this last episode from earlier this week showed just how much this show deserves appreciation. This time the family takes on the role of doomsday preppers and... saves the community. So even if you are not following it, maybe you want to watch this one episode (season three, episode 10). 

Beautifully #progressive  

2012-12-12 11:35:21 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"‎Valve is not averse to all organizational structure—it crops up in many forms all the time, temporarily. But problems show up when hierarchy or codified divisions of labor either haven’t been created by the group’s members or when those structures persist for long periods of time. We believe those structures inevitably begin to serve their own needs rather than those of Valve’s customers. The hierarchy will begin to reinforce its own structure by hiring people who fit its shape, adding people to fill subordinate support roles. Its members are also incented to engage in rent-seeking behaviors that take advantage of the power structure rather than focusing on simply delivering value to customers." -Valve New Employee Handbook (PDF)

2012-12-12 08:27:12 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Saugokitės, bet nebijokit :)

Alcoholic hallucinosis (or alcohol-related psychosis) is a complication of alcohol withdrawal in alcoholics. This develops about 12 to 24 hours after drinking stops and involves auditory and visual hallucinations, most commonly accusatory or threatening voices. This condition is distinct from delirium tremens since it develops and resolves rapidly, involves a limited set of hallucinations and has no other physical symptoms.

The risk of developing alcoholic hallucinosis is increased by long-term heavy alcohol abuse and the use of other, illicit drugs.

Descriptions of the condition date back to at least 1907.

2012-12-11 21:21:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-12-11 20:02:51 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Chrome is still crashing on me today. Just noticed it happening together with a G+ incoming notification. 

G+ crashes the other browser, Maxthon, too.

2012-12-10 22:06:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-12-10 00:49:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

One of the most profound #psychology  -related interviews of this year for me. I've said before (http://www.quora.com/Who-is-the-most-influential-psychologist-of-the-last-20-years), Harville Hendrix is the most influential psychologist of our time.

http://soundstrue-ha.s3.amazonaws.com/podcast/insights-at-the-edge/audio/PD02521W_Harville-Hendrix.mp3

2012-12-09 12:48:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2012-12-08 16:28:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Inconsiderate Bastard is up for grabs! Take him & read him. Hilarious inside - I promise. #widowmaker

http://amzn.to/H92xgF

2012-12-08 13:06:03 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 24 +1s)

Waves to fellow knitters!

2012-12-07 12:54:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Kaip išauginti žmones, kurie jausis saugūs ir nebus uzkalniai. #psychology #attachment_theory

2012-11-11 13:53:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Mitch Albom's "The Time Keeper" (2012: Hyperion).

Yesterday I fancied telling you about the small and precious book that I read, but having finished it, I won't say it. If you're a junkie of everything that concerns the concept time (theory of relativity, ageing, young love, meaning of childhood, serenity of a slow time, etc. etc.) like I am, then by all means, read it. Here is a short video interview with the author, shot at the Times Square, of all places: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/mitch-albom-interview-best-selling-author-speaks-gma-17142086 

But I would advise against giving this book as a gift to others. 

If you think it might help their suicidal thoughts, it will not. If you're into helping someone you suspect might be wanting too little time, do your best to let them know their life has impact, don't throw books on them.
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2012-10-26 16:37:05 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How do schools create an environment where kids don’t tolerate bullying?

2012-10-26 16:00:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

To the ladies who have been badgered, humiliated, ganged up against by men on social networks this week. Because we are the bigger People! Happy Friday.
Kalinda 'BAMF' Sharma

2012-10-21 20:12:32 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The elk survived. :-)

Photographer: John McColgan

Bitterroot National Forest near the town of Sula in Western Montana
August 6, 2000

The E.M.S. Gallerie is proud to present the artwork of John McColgan. He was assigned as a fire behavior analyst in Montana this summer when he was faced with the best photo opportunity of his lifetime.

The image was captured in the late afternoon of Sunday, August 6, from a bridge over the East Fork of the Bitterroot River just north of Sula, Montana. The elk sought refuge in the river bottom during what may have been the most extreme day of fire behavior on the Bitterroot in more than 70 years. "I do shoot some photography, but certainly that was a once in a lifetime, stunning opportunity."
(...)
He was traveling to the Valley Complex along with the deputy incident commander of the Sula Complex. "I was... more »

2012-10-21 09:23:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Mec, donne-moi des croquettes.

#JRT  

2012-10-18 20:09:57 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

AIMÉ JULES DALOU Paris, 1838 - 1902
La vérité méconnue ou Le miroir brisé

seen as a tiny--but stunning--clay model of this in Copenhagen, and it stays in my mind for many, many years.

"I propose that hope is the deciding factor

No I did not rip this off the Obama campaign...long before that, I rather cringed at the word. As with "patience," it seemed like a mantra for the passive, a euphemism for the reality of "stuck-with-the-rotten-status-quo." To hope was to long for something, believe in something that was so remote from existence that it could not even be labeled as "plan," or "expect," or "aim for," which were words of action, decisiveness, and strength. Or so it seemed.

I agree with you, that people change (for the better) when it finally hurts too much. But when it hurts too much onecan ... more »

2012-10-18 15:43:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Interesting update from the Anonymous. #Stop_Bullying  

2012-10-18 15:32:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The Big Researchers' Migration

2012-10-17 22:37:51 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

2012-10-17 08:59:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Pick your #economist  

2012-10-16 16:50:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

GGiedriaus +Giedrius Gerutavičius  #moliūgai   #pumpkins  

2012-10-16 16:12:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

~ George Washington Carver

Born into slavery, Mr. Carver became an American botanist, inventor, scientist and educator.

You already have the ability to be who you want to be and do what you want to do. #Lewisism

2012-10-16 14:32:20 (24 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#WorkersNotCitizens  

"It is traditional of people who've been objecting to full employment(...) have been business owners precisely because full employment drives up labor costs, and labor costs, as we all know, are the biggest part of costs particularly if you're doing retail. So I don't think you'll find any disagreement here at the table at least about the virtues of full employment as the ultimate angle."

2012-10-16 05:06:57 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

[Popular Mathematics]

Nobel Prize for an optimal wife-swapping scenario.

2012-10-15 09:08:00 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#nuclear  

2012-10-15 06:54:22 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

O lia lia kaip ilgai skaičiuoja. Balsavimo Airijoje, Norvegijoje, Prancūzijoje, Ispanijoje, JAV, JK, ir kt. rezultatai dar neįtraukti. O gal baisu skelbti?

2012-10-14 22:50:21 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Oxytocin to replace depression medication? Add it to the vitamins for we need people who treat other people better. Night night!

2012-10-14 17:57:49 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

He's gonna jump. Big moment approaching

2012-10-14 12:55:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm not reading the review, I'm watching the movie. And it's beautiful indeed. #women   #bravery   #Respect  

2012-10-14 07:22:55 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 10 +1s)

Probably one of the best Ted Talks in a long time.

2012-10-14 06:54:12 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Even monkeys know when they're being paid less for doing the same task.  All that's missing is them yelling "Attica!  Attica!"

2012-10-13 22:46:12 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Yesterday I took the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Peace Prise to the EU as a good news. It's fair, I said, Europe was created to prevent wars, and it succeeded. And there was no one else to give it to this year. Well, except of Pakistan's Malala. But in the evening I had a call from a friend, and we discussed the EU award, among many other things (like... his rifle that he suspects got tampered with). And I had to agree with him: the EU apparatus is overpaid. The fonctionnaires' salaries are way too high. The pledge to cut down its budget is done at the expense of the not so well paid personnel. The EU Parliament is an inefficient institution. 

Tyler Cowen, my favourite libertarian economist, has an article in today's NYT. He explains how overpaying the bureaucratic apparatus hurts the real economy.

2012-10-13 20:27:23 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-10-13 19:21:40 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

If Cats Wrote Literature

(We should be grateful they don't.)   #Caturday  

2012-10-13 17:48:26 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#Caturday  

2012-10-13 17:52:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Can you improve your quality of life under capitalism? In order to do that, you need to know what made capitalism work for a while and see if you've got what it takes. Read on...