More links than you can shake a disgraced child actor at
July 12, 2007 | 12:13 pm
The Kosher drugs and writing edition…
Why Every American Jew Should Love the Boston Red Sox and Hate the New York Yankees
I’m offering this argument for your own good. I even traveled to the team’s spring training to meet Jewish Red Sox and bring you back their story, though that turned into an adventure all its own. Too long have Jews paid homage to the Yankees and their pinstripes. It makes sense, the center of the Jewish universe being in New York, but we should be asking, “What have you done for us lately?â€
Rare interview with LSD pioneer Owsley Stanley
Between 1965 and 1967, Augustus Owsley Stanley III AKA the “Bear,” homebrewed an estimated 1.25 million doses of LSD in the San Francisco Bay Area, fueling a revolution in consciousness, music, art, and the counterculture.
Animated mice getting high and teaching us about the way drugs work in our system?
It turns out that “bong” has even more meanings than I realized.
This is quite brilliant: Nina Katchadourian has found and photographed in libraries and friends’ homes the spines of stacked books whose titles come together to say something more than the sum of their parts.
While Europeans Holiday, Americans Toil
This may surprise those who have just spent hours stranded at airports or idling in a hot line for a ride at an amusement park. But a quarter of American workers get no paid vacation or paid holidays. And on average, those private-sector workers who do get paid time off are granted only nine vacation days and six paid holidays each year, according to government statistics analyzed by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
OMG — My Boss Wants to ‘Friend’ Me On My Online Profile
Declining a “friend” request from a colleague or a boss is a slight. So, Mr. Dyer accepted the invitation, then removed any inappropriate or incriminating photos of himself — “I’d rather speak vaguely about them,” he says — and accepted the boss’s invitation.
When you meet someone, like a client or peer, do you immediately Google them? I don’t exactly do that, but when I was responding to internet ads for sharehousing I found myself submitting people’s emails into Myspace’s people search.
The Science of Large Breasts, and Other Evolutionary Verities
I blogged nearly a year ago about a study by the evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa which argued that beautiful women sometimes marry unattractive men because of the following supply/demand gap: there are simply more good-looking women than there are good-looking men.
One more reasonto despise Gary Coleman
It seems that lovable rascal, Gary Coleman, has found a way to recover from bankruptcy. He’s pitching outrageous loans to people who don’t know better.
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