mjklin

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   by mjklin 11y ago

   This American Life segment on Taarof: http://youtu.be/IGG95Za7Pzo
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   ... And that's why you always leave a note!
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   Yes, I think "alien abduction" is also on there somewhere...plus every disease known to man. It's more like a brainstorm of all possible problems. You asked!
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   Take a look for yourself: http://www.uia.be/sites/uia.be/db/db/x.php
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   I also got the dreams. And you didn't mention the flatulence. The first time I did an all-Soylent day was for a full day bus ride. I felt so sorry for the people sitting near me... Sorry folks, I didn't know!
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   For me the main takeaway from this was the "moving average" method to calculate weight, which smooths daily spikes into a trend curve. An excellent app for this on iOS is True Weight. Saves you from making calculations. https:&#x
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   "It is when we are using what we learned that we wish we had studied more" - Chinese proverb
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   by mjklin 11y ago

   Sounds like she's been taking lessons from Uncle Ruckus (no relation)
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    by mjklin 11y ago

    Well a crocodile is also a "fish" in Chinese (鳄鱼) and the word for egg has the insect radical (蛋). Must be based on old concepts, but nobody has a problem with it except foreigners.
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    by mjklin 11y ago

    There was a programme on BBC radio several years ago called "The Heart Has Its Reasons" that stated the heart itself contains neurons. They interviewed a heart transplant recipient who claimed he could sense the birthday of the do
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    by mjklin 11y ago

    So you don't share their last name? Is your last name a westernized version?
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    by mjklin 11y ago

    Alexis de Tocqueville noted this as a feature of American society in the mid-1800s. Chomsky would be flattering himself to think it was an original idea or that it was imposed from on high.
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    by mjklin 11y ago

    My life was changed when I found out I could use smartphone apps to read texts to me, and tell me exactly how long till I finish. I used to be too annoyed to start a book because it seemed to drag on forever. (That plus I could never find t
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Perhaps because it's metal they couldn't x-ray it properly?
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Also you can't view the article's categories. You need desktop view for that.
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Hmm, it seems the quote I'm thinking of must have been in an extended edition of Summerhill that I've since given away. I remember Neill saying in an aside that he never had luck forming children's characters after they were
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    There are videos of Teng singing Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie out there. Cause this is thriller!
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    I've visited Summerhill, but as an American it would be impractical to send my daughter there for all her schooling. I'm wondering if you think one or two years would do her much good, assuming we could get her to go back to norma
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    "Those who contend that knowledge results wholly from the experiences of the individual, ignoring as they do the mental evolution which accompanies the autogenous development of the nervous system, fall into an error as great as if the
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Interesting. In China there are often "restaurant skirmishes" when the bill comes over who will pay it. That is, the person who pays the bill gets the face. They can get quite intense. Does this happen in Japan as well?
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Here is my procedure for anyone interested: * I read all books through audio, with the PDF of the book and the Voice Dream app on iOS. * I make highlights and notes as I go, then export to a text file when I'm done. So I have the highl
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Perhaps more than you think! I just read this passage in William James: Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the child
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Ask any Chinese person and they will tell you: Mao was 70% right, 30% wrong. This is the official party line taught in schools.
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    This is the real strategy. Phoenix looks at what the federal government needs and offers classes in those subjects. Students get federal loans to pay for it all. Money is funneled straight from US govt to Phoenix, with students on the hook
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Have you read the books Everything Is Obvious (Once You Know the Answer) by Duncan Watts, or Social Sciences as Sorcery by Stanislav Andreski? Your piece reminded me very much of both.
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    It seems you're talking about what William James called the "Mind Stuff Theory" [1]. He ended up rejecting it, but even a hundred years later our conceptions are too muddled to have good arguments either way. [1] http:/
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    In Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything he makes the point that for most of its history the earth has been much colder than at present, including times where the oceans have frozen. We are living in a temporary thaw. For
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Sounds similar to this project to build an open source stenographic keyboard: http://stenosaurus.blogspot.com/
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    by mjklin 12y ago

    Washington was similar... though rather than cities it was regions that struck the power balance. The previous capitals (New York and Philadelphia) were too far in the northern region.