A Better Course

Life With and Without Animated Ducks: The Future Is Gender Distributed – Charlie’s Diary In the "male" sphere, of professional operations, offices, corporations, pop culture, businesses, the available technology was extremely high-level, better than anywhere I'd yet lived. In the "female" sphere, the home, domestic duties, daily chores, cleaning, heating, anything inside the walls of […]

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Interview With an Element: Chlorine | The Hairpin "His idea of disinfecting your hands after dissection of a cadaver and assisting in the delivery room was so new at the time it was rejected by the medical profession for decades. Semmelweis died at the age of 47 of gangrene after a severe beating in a […]

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Letters of Note: Nothing good gets away The other is an outpouring of everything good in you—of kindness and consideration and respect—not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. (tags: none)

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Fail Worse – The New Inquiry ZING "But for some reason, Ferris fails to take the opportunity to allude to Beckett anywhere else in his million-selling guide on “How to Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.” " (tags: none)

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John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 – NYTimes.com To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler. (tags: none)

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16 October 1861: The consequences of crinoline | From the Guardian | guardian.co.uk "Our countrywomen are apt to follow a fashion abjectly, we are told, because they have a horror of appearing independent in their judgement about external appearances, and of earning the name of being 'strong-minded women'" (tags: none)

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How Companies Learn Your Secrets – NYTimes.com "Because birth records are usually public, the moment a couple have a new baby, they are almost instantaneously barraged with offers and incentives and advertisements from all sorts of companies. Which means that the key is to reach them earlier, before any other retailers know a baby is […]

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Bigger than Jah | Montreal Mirror While our taxi driver navigated through the seemingly end­less sea of cars, we asked if there was anyone else he would have liked to see at the Jamaica Jazz and Blues festival. His response was, “No, she [Celine Dion] is better than number one. There is no one better. […]

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designswarm thoughts » Blog Archive » Unexportables "When you can be anywhere, you have to celebrate where you are right then and there. That’s luxury." (tags: none)

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Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry – WSJ.com An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. "This generates tension in the listener," said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. […]

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