November 2011
52 posts
FEEDBACK BLOG: Giving it Away: How Free Music... →
derekwebb:
Music matters. It’s so integral and pervasive in our culture that it almost feels invisible. It’s even hard to imagine walking into almost any store without hearing music overhead. Culture provides a constant soundtrack to our lives. So it’s no wonder there’s so much discussion and debate…
The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right →
discoverynews:
scientists are finding that the ability to detect sarcasm really is useful. For the past 20 years, researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving, for instance. Children...
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Phillips' urban beehive is sexy until you...
iheartchaos:
Bees are awesome and honey is fucking amazing, but when you’re in an urban environment, you really don’t have any good place for bees even if you wanted them. Phillips’ urban beehive concept would however give bees a place to spit up their bee spit and give you fresh honey, as long as you don’t fuck it up and release angry bees into your apartment.
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“[T]he relationship between parental education and children’s achievement has...”
– Stanford study exposes the new achievement gap in education – the gap between the rich and the poor is double that between whites and blacks (via)
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Awesome Holiday Gifts for Hipster Dogs + Cats →
My kitteh needs the DJ Kitteh Cat Scratch Turntable.
How you know your genre is dead
jasinskiart:
http://mlkshk.com/p/98HG via @mlkshk
Please tell me Classical music is a pre-req, because it’s so beautiful.
Loopsy Dazy & Tonye Aganaba - Under The Stars...
loopsydazy:
Loopsy Dazy remix of “Under The Stars” by Loopsy Dazy & Tonye Aganaba. Original mix coming out on Tonye’s EP “White Wizard” in December.
“It now seems Facebook’s usage is undergoing a split. Active Facebookers become...”
– Very interesting read on Facebook’s attrition and “the discreet shift to Twitter” (via curiositycounts)
