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An dis­cus­sion about the rela­tion­ship between anthro­pol­ogy and enthnog­ra­phy raises the ques­tion of how to clearly define the dis­cus­sion and knowl­edge of people’s.His­tory is a sequenc­ing of events, a kind of cause and effect, that is the inevitable out­come of try­ing to under­stand the pat­tern of events that is defined by a period. Yet history […]

Text while dri­ving? Thought every­one did. That’s cause I’ve got my head down texting.…uh-huh. clipped from www.marketingcharts.com 26% of Mobile Users Text While Dri­ving Despite an increas­ing num­ber of state bans on dri­ving while tex­ting (DWT) and numer­ous reports of texting-related acci­dents, more than one-fourth (26%) of US mobile-phone users send and/or receive text mes­sages while […]

Here’s an edu­ca­tional film from the 1940’s on how banks work. Every­thing seemed so sim­ple. The funny thing is, every bank trans­ac­tion was some­how related to money that was actu­ally IN THE BANK! clipped from www.lifehackingmovie.com You 2.0 A doc­u­men­tary on life hack­ing Over the past few days I’ve been going through lots of archival footage […]

I’m a type­writer lover…have a five old porta­bles of dif­fer­ent vin­tage. My core type­writer — the one that brought my voice out when I was young and stood by me while I strug­gled to become a writer — was a Smith Corona Clip­per portable. Last year I worked my way through a 15-year writer’s block […]

A really fas­ci­nat­ing analy­sis of home run hit­ting rel­a­tive to dif­fer­ent vari­ables: height, weight, age, pitch loca­tion, etc. clipped from www.feedly.com Next up I graphed stan­dard dis­tance against a batter’s weight. It’s a stan­dard assump­tion that heav­ier play­ers have more raw power. And even though listed player weights are some of the more unre­li­able base­ball data […]

This is a pow­er­ful use of graph­ics and infor­ma­tion to give a near real-time vision of the local stress being dri­ven by the eco­nomic slow­down. While broad swathes of the coun­try are expe­ri­enc­ing rel­a­tively light stres­sors, high pop­u­la­tion areas along the coasts and the indus­trial mid­west are under tremen­dous pres­sures. clipped from www.feedly.com Source: AP […]