Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
chartsnthings: Bikes, Google Maps and Wisdom
When you work on a team that has 5+ professional cartographers, you don’t often get called on to make maps. But sometimes they’re busy, alas, and you use Google’s maps, which are actually pretty great these days. Today’s update of our bike map lets users submit short bits of bike wisdom…
Pico Iyer at TEDGlobal 2013, echoing Annie Dillard’s eloquent meditation on presence vs. productivity.
Blogger David Cain explains the hidden link between breakfast and productivity:
“The best approach seems to be to give ample deliberation to the decisions that concern major aspects of life, such as career, family, relationships, high-level goals and creative pursuits, and don’t let small ones hang you up. The big ones determine what you actually do with your life—and it is their doing that contributes most to happiness, so it’s worth pruning out as many of the distracting minor decisions as possible so that you don’t cease the important doing because you’re caught up in unimportant thinking.”
Should You Use The SNOOZE Button?
My mind says yes, but AsapSCIENCE says no. Waking up is all about our body clock’s natural tendency to come out of the deep sleep cycle we’ve been in all night, slowly bringing our systems online. If our alarm interrupts that boot-up process, grogginess ensues.
So you hit that snooze button, clinging to slumber in 9-minute increments for the next … oh crap, you’re late! Thing is, you probably don’t gain any advantage from the snooze button. It can even propel you into even more exhausting sleep patterns!
I’ll try to listen to science starting tomorrow morning, but first … just a few more minutes.
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NPR shows you how to avoid getting ripped off at the ATM.
Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes: Teeth Tips for Non-Dentists: "So your tooth got knocked out..."
If a tooth is completely knocked out of the mouth:
- This is a true “dental emergency” — see a dentist or an ER ASAP.
- If the tooth is found, DO rinse it with saline or tap water — but DO NOT TOUCH THE ROOTS OR SCRUB THE TOOTH — before putting it back into the dental socket.
- If you’re worried…
good:
Max Schorr posted in Living, Design and Home
Graham Hill’s personal account of learning to live with less and finding more happiness.-
We live in a world of surfeit stuff, of big-box stores and 24-hour online shopping opportunities. Members of every socioeconomic bracket can and do deluge themselves with products.
There isn’t any indication that any of these things makes anyone any happier; in fact it seems the reverse may be true.
For me, it took 15 years, a great love and a lot of travel to get rid of all the inessential things I had collected and live a bigger, better, richer life with less.
Illustration by Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch for nytimes.com
