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LISTEN TO THREE SONGS FROM TAMER ANIMALS
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The Best of the Sunday Times*
*According to me
It was a good paper this week. Here are the pieces I especially enjoyed:
But Will It Make You Happy? – Surprise! Researchers find that material possessions don’t make people happy; it’s relationships and experiences that do. Our propensity to “hedonic adaptation” means that we rather quickly acclimate to change—good or bad—to maintain a stable level of happiness. In other words,...
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July 2010
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This article on style has plenty of its own. →
Ideas can be hard to understand, but must the sentences used to describe them also be? This delicious little piece in Times Higher Education takes on this question. And there’s a lot to love about the author’s own style. Namely:
The use of the term “obfuscatory malaise” to describe the discomfort with academic style. Yes.
Words that are so lovely they must be said out...
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My first music review EVER →
May 2010
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10 Tips to Take to the Farmers' Market //... →
adambez:
urbanfoodie:
A great list of tips for engaged, mindful shopping at the Market!
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April 2010
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The Complete List of Words David Foster Wallace... →
Really?
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March 2010
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Romanticizing the Primitive
In my tradition of imagining up cocktails I would never actually drink, here’s a new one called “Romanticizing the Primitive” (my “Romanticizing the Past” cocktail involved brandy, assorted bitters, and wagon wheel water):
2 oz. buffalo fat
1 oz. coconut water
1 pastured egg yolk
Wild berry for garnish
Melt fat over campfire at low temperature; crack coconut on...
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In case you live under a rock. →
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The Best of the Sunday Times According to Me:...
SUNDAY STYLES
A Father-Daughter Bond, Page by Page – All parents should read with their kids, but this family took it to the next level with “The Streak”: 3,218 nights of reading in a row. This is one of the most heartwarming parent-child rituals I’ve encountered, and it only slightly borders on weird (mainly the part where the daughter and her friends would stop home in the middle of their night...
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New Between Two Ferns! New Between Two Ferns! →
essdogg:
Zach G., to Ben Stiller: “Do you wish you had ever followed your parents into comedy?”
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"sitting on Justin Vernon's face" →
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local jokes.
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Reading the Fun Parts of the Sunday Times So You...
I’ve been a big fan of Minneapolis Michael’s weekly summary of his favorite articles in the Sunday New York Times. I like people who are comfortable saying “Times” without specifying the “New York” part. They have a sense of the world’s natural order.
I had the pleasure of meeting Michael a week ago at the SXSW Send-Off at First Avenue. Dispensing with pleasantries, we quickly moved into a...
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Staring at the sun. →
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