August 2011
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Narrative matters
Techcrunch (June 9): “Culture Kitchen (“Iron Chef in your LivingRoom”) is a platform to connect foodies with lower income ethnic women skilled in cooking the traditional recipes they grew up with.”
This Week in Pinterest (August 30): “We discovered Culture Kitchen, a startup in San Francisco offering group cooking classes taught by immigrant women who have been making authentic...
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Coursekit Blog: New Semester, New Direction →
ideasandform:
coursekit:
Hey Everyone, In the spirit of back to school, we’ve given our blog a makeover. We want our posts to reflect the reason for Coursekit’s inception - the amazing ideas coming out of colleges and universities today.
We want to make the Coursekit Blog, the place to find cool stuff going on in academia. We’ll uncover online speeches and lectures, materials, studies,...
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“BEE: I was in the middle of another busy workday, flying my usual route. I was...”
– Demetri Martin - Bee Sting
HT to Brad Gillespie
Lana Del Rey - Diet Mtn Dew
Next big thing.
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“Dweezil’s registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The...”
– Dweezil Zappa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“What the White House is telling us is that the more unemployed people we can pay...”
– Stephen Moore: Why Americans Hate Economics - WSJ.com
Of particular note, the author is a member of the WSJ’s editorial board and later in the piece calls macroeconomics “witchcraft.”
[Sigh]
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Foursquare lists are great! Now if only you could... →
I love the new Lists feature that Foursquare rolled out today. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any native way to search through lists for stuff I’d like to discover. Until Foursquare rolls out a search function (or decides to restrict this hack), I threw together a Google Custom Search Engine that should do the trick. Try it out with something simple like coffee.
Of course, results...
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“Our research group is interested in the use of technology for development. We...”
– CallRoulette
Brilliant use of a viral mechanism to load-test an experimental piece of hardware. By a team from Berkeley. Found at the top of HN. I hope it works for them.
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Escalation of Commitment
Escalation of commitment was first described by Barry M. Staw in his 1976 paper, “Knee deep in the big muddy: A study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action”.[1] More recently the term sunk cost fallacy has been used to describe the phenomenon where people justify increased investment in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence...
Help research prediction markets
marginalrevolution:
He is one of the most important social scientists working today, and he requests that I post this appeal:
Prediction markets can harness the “wisdom of crowds” to solve problems, develop products, and make forecasts. These systems typically treat collective intelligence as a commodity to be mined, not a resource that can be grown and improved. That’s about to change.
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“In 1990, Rickey Henderson signed a five year, $8.5 million contract with the...”
– Now I Know