March 2013
2 posts
“by Sandra MurphyThis week we have yet another group of new fun mystery novels to...”
– Food, Tea, Cats & Kitchen Collectibles Mysteries For Your Reading Pleasure: Reviews/Giveaways
Mar 20th
Virginia Woolf on How to Read a Book | Brain... →
Mar 11th
February 2013
3 posts
WSJ.com free all day Saturday →
The Wall Street Journal online is free to everyone all day Saturday.
Feb 9th
We Invite You to Visit MedlinePlus for Trusted... →
Free, accurate, and understandable.
Feb 8th
Neurologist Oliver Sacks on Memory, Plagiarism,... →
I’m beginning to think I may have played in the NFL a few seasons back and just can’t remember it.
Feb 4th
December 2012
2 posts
4 tags
Twelve Books of 2012 « Book Snob →
Rachel of Book Snob. Always interesting selections!
Dec 19th
4 tags
Greg McKeown on a rarely discussed career mistake. →
“The slightly painful truth is, at any one time there is only one piece of real estate we can “own” in another person’s mind. People can’t think of us as a project manager, professor, attorney, insurance agent, editor and entrepreneur all at exactly the same time. They may all be true about us but people can only think of us as one thing first.”
Dec 19th
November 2012
2 posts
4 tags
Nate Silver and the Ascendance of Expertise →
Nov 15th
6 tags
Jay Rosen's assessment of quality media during the... →
Nov 7th
October 2012
2 posts
#vetchat
#vetchat  A new weekly Twitter chat from the Hero Project, happening every Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST, dedicated to military and veterans’ issues.
Oct 17th
3 tags
McKinsey Center for Government →
Thought leaders on innovating government for new times. Download the full PDF here. “To explore the approaches that governments around the world are taking to common problems, this anthology convenes political leaders and civil servants, economists and policy experts, generalists and specialists.”
Oct 11th
August 2012
3 posts
Fall Preview 2012: New York's indie booksellers... →
Aug 28th
3 tags
Digital Government: Building a 21st Century... →
Aug 23rd
Free app helps create ‘blueprint’ for health →
Aug 2nd
July 2011
1 post
Evaluating health news stories – 10 criteria from... →
How can we tell when news stories about health and health care are helpful, accurate, unbiased, and well researched? Americans are awash in health and medical news stories every day, and…
Jul 26th
May 2011
2 posts
What are you afraid of? Whatta ya got? →
Image via Wikipedia “Brain Activity Patterns in Anxiety-Prone People Suggest Deficits in Handling Fear”—National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
May 19th
Erasing Osama - The New Yorker cover story →
“When Gürbüz Dogan Eksioglu woke up on Monday morning, in Istanbul, he turned on the TV news, as is his daily routine. As soon as he found out that American forces had killed …
May 10th
April 2011
6 posts
The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte →
Five shows in, and already Mostly Photo is the best, most informative photo podcast I’ve seen. Lisa Bettany and Trey Ratcliffe are exceptional.
Apr 26th
"What Is a Book? The Definition Continues to... →
Nice roundup article by Matthew Ingram at GigaOM!
Apr 26th
Weather Words →
Image via Wikipedia Television weather forecasters, in a never-ending quest to sound more scientific—if not more accurate—became meteorologists. But they didn’t stop there. A…
Apr 20th
It "fizzes and dissolves in seconds." →
Image via Wikipedia Pushing the little blue pill(s)—Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra. Oh, my! Now, a 36-hour “weekender.” Related articles Drugs Used to Treat…
Apr 14th
"How Local News Is Going Mobile"—Column Five →
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Thanks to Om Malik for bringing attention to Column Five’s graphic overview of how mobile we’re all becoming. Tablets like the iPad…
Apr 12th
Apr 6th