When Introverts Should Avoid Coffee
If you're headed into some important meeting, you might down a cup or two of coffee without thinking much of it, hoping the caffeine will provide your brain with an extra boost.
Posted on October 21st, 2014
Keeping a Journal
Posted on October 20th, 2014
All Technology is Assistive — Backchannel — Medium
In 1941, the US Navy commissioned the husband-and-wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames to design a lightweight splint for wounded soldiers to get them out of the field more safely.
Posted on October 20th, 2014
The Gentleman Who Made Scholar — Backchannel — Medium
Anurag Acharya is the key inventor of Google Scholar, but the real origin of the project lies in his college years at the Kharagpur campus of the Indian Institute of Technology.
Posted on October 20th, 2014
How to Get Data the Government Doesn’t Want You to Have
If you’re at all interested in understanding and learning from numbers, you should know about public records. Luckily for us, the law mandates that a lot of this information is freely available.
Posted on October 20th, 2014
How to be 10% Happier
Think you had a bad day? Dan Harris had a panic attack on live TV in front of millions of people.
Posted on October 20th, 2014
Games Kittens Play
We got two kittens a few months ago. We never even thought we were pet people. But in recent years we made friends with some of our neighbors’ pets, and found ourselves missing sarcastic cat Jeeves after he and his family moved away.
Posted on October 19th, 2014
HBO Decides It's Finally Time To Go It Alone
For years, plenty of people have been wondering why HBO absolutely refused to offer a standalone internet offering for cord cutters (and cord nevers), with the general response being that "the math" was against it.
Posted on October 19th, 2014