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- The Last Psychiatrist: Why Parents Hate Parenting
- I have a surprising piece of advice for parents, which I hope will be taken in the spirit it is offered: your kid doesn't want to be around you that much. No one does.
- 2010-08-11 to bestof, childrearing, children, parenting, psychology by soobrosa
- Anil Ananthaswamy: Rethinking Einstein - The end of space-time
- Gravity emerges as the attractive force due to quantum particles called gravitons, in much the same way that the electromagnetic force is carried by photons.
- 2010-08-11 to bestof, gravity, math, physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, unified theory by soobrosa
- Kathryn Schulz: On Air and On Error - This American Life's Ira Glass on Being Wrong
- I wasn't making any money, and I was so bad at it. I was 19 when I started at NPR and I was 27 or 28 before I could competently put together a story that I had written.
- 2010-08-11 to bestof, failure, story, storytelling, wrong by soobrosa
- Atul Gawande: Letting Go
- What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
- 2010-08-04 to bestof, healthcare, hospice, medicine by soobrosa
- William Saletan: Deep Throat
- The depravity of Major League Eating.
- 2010-08-04 to bestof, eating, food, gluttony, sports by soobrosa
- Thomas Goetz: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure
- As the cost of sequencing drops and research into possible associations increases, whole genome sequencing will become a routine part of medical treatment, just as targeted genetic tests are a routine part of pregnancy today.
- 2010-08-04 to bestof, cure, data, disease, gene, genetics, medicine, science, sequencing by soobrosa
- Brendan I. Koerner: Secret of AA - After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
- AA doesn't work for everybody, but when it does, it can be transformative.
- 2010-07-07 to alcohol, bestof, drinking, faith, group therapy, medicine, placebo, religion, therapy by soobrosa
- Hampton Stevens: Michael Jackson's Unparalleled Influence
- Videos didn't matter before Michael, and they ceased to matter at almost the precise cultural moment he stopped producing great work.
- 2010-07-07 to bestof, music, music video, portrait, video by soobrosa
- Ariel Levy: Either/Or
- Sports, sex, and the runner Caster Semenya.
- 2010-07-07 to africa, bestof, gender, medicine, sports, statistics by soobrosa
- Todd Hoff: How Will Memristors Change Everything?
- Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale
- 2010-07-06 to bestof, breakthrough, future, innovation, memristor, technology by soobrosa
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