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Archive for 2012
August 26, 2012
DIVORCE: Worse for children than the death of a parent?
OOPS, I NEARLY FORGOT: Happy Birthday to Todd Steed!
HMM: Box office shocker. 2016 Obama’s America at #3? “This film only cost $2.5M to make and it looks like it’s going to have taken in nearly four times that amount by the time the convention kicks off. It’s a fairly remarkable story.”
80% of life, and 100% of politics, is showing up. This is more evidence of who’s showing up this year.
UPDATE: Reader Michael Ubaldi writes: “I saw it with a friend this afternoon. The theater was easily three-quarters full. We were among a handful without gray hair, but for me, the D’Souza film matters in the same way the Chick-fil-A support day did: unanticipated conservative turnout.”
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Help! My Boyfriend Doesn’t Think It’s OK for Me To Be Kinky Just Because I’m a Mom. I don’t think the Ayn Rand reference fits here, though . . . .
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THE FIVE KEYS TO FACULTY JOB-SATISFACTION. I’ll add one more: Outside income. When I first got tenure, I talked to the older guys who seemed happy in their positions to try to figure out what worked, and all of them mentioned that. It doesn’t have to be a lot — a few thousand bucks a year is enough, really — the key is to feel sufficiently independent that you don’t become one of those people who obsess over whether this year’s raise is two percent or two-and-a-half. And yes, such people exist. They’re not among the happy faculty, though. . . .
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WHERE SHOULD THE GOP GO? JOIN THE CONVERSATION.
FIGHTING WRINKLES with snake venom.
BRENDAN LOY KEEPS BLOGGING ON ISAAC: New Orleans under Hurricane Warning, but plans to “shelter in place.” “New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did his best Ray Nagin impression Sunday, announcing a no-evacuation, ‘shelter in place’ plan that suggests a stunning level of confidence that a worst-case scenario won’t happen, at a time when it remains, meteorologically speaking, very much in play.”
WE KEEP RUNNING INTO THIS PROBLEM: NIH superbug outbreak highlights lack of new antibiotics. “Experts point to three reasons pharmaceutical companies have pulled back from antibiotics despite two decades of screaming alarms from the public health community: There is not much money in it; inventing new antibiotics is technically challenging; and, in light of drug safety concerns, the FDA has made it difficult for companies to get new antibiotics approved.”
But the story spins it as a failure of capitalism. Excuse me?
HOW TO START LUCID DREAMING.
FASTER PLEASE: Smart Sutures That Detect Infections. “Plastic or silk threads covered with temperature sensors and micro-heaters could keep tabs on infections and provide therapy.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 7 Signs You’re An Overbearing Girlfriend.
THE QUIET HELL of extreme meditation.
REAL LIFE SLEEPING BEAUTIES: “An art installation in Kiev features five real-life sleeping beauties – who have to marry a man who kisses them if they open their eyes. The women are to lie ‘sleeping’ for three days as part of artist Taras Polataiko’s installation in the National Art Museum of Ukraine. As they sleep, men survey and kiss the women, trying to wake them, reports the Daily Telegraph. If the sleeping beauties open their eyes, both man and woman are contractually obliged to tie the knot.”
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10 Dirty Negotiation Tactics And How To Beat Them.
NATURE’S ANTIDEPRESSANT: A controversial new study finds that women who regularly have unprotected sex are healthier, happier, and generally sleep better than women who don’t. “Apparently, semen is rich in chemicals that help increase a partner’s happiness, mood, and even quality of sleep.” This hypothesis isn’t really new.
IN THE MAIL: From Quent Cordair, Lunch Break: Short Stories & Poems.