the famous 'free speech wall' at the University of Virginia and my daughter Kristin expressing herself!
Here is what I am reading today:
“In the year following the official end of the Great Recession in June 2009,1 foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost 1.2 million, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.2″
“Women in a Swedish study who drank at least a cup of coffee everyday had a 22 to 25 percent lower risk of stroke, compared to those who drank less coffee or none at all. “Coffee drinkers should rejoice,” said Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “Coffee is often made out to be potentially bad for your heart. There really hasn’t been any study that convincingly said coffee is bad.””
“There’s actually a complicated science to making products stand out on the page, Carmi said. That’s why EyePredict is launching a new product called EPflow, which rearranges product catalogs so that the most valuable products get the most clicks. Catalogs are usually laid out in a pretty straightforward way, Carmi said. Companies put the most valuable item in the top left corner, and next to that they put the next-most important item, and so on. But location isn’t everything. As a simplified example, Carmi described a product catalog that’s just a grid of 20 Coke cans. The can on the top left isn’t going to stand out — but if you change all the other cans to Pepsi, that Coke can is suddenly very prominent, and it hasn’t moved at all.”
““I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.” – Charlie Sheen
“We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.” – Muammar Gaddafi
You don’t have to look far for instances of people lying to themselves. Whether it’s a drug-addled actor or an almost-toppled dictator, some people seem to have an endless capacity for rationalising what they did, no matter how questionable. We might imagine that these people really know that they’re deceiving themselves, and that their words are mere bravado. But Zoe Chance from Harvard Business School thinks otherwise.”
