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The last word: He said he was leaving. She ignored him. - The Week

acupuncturegirl — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:21:57 -0400

The last word: He said he was leaving. She ignored him. - The Week

fastcompany: Seeing progress boosts your performance: In a...

acupuncturegirl — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:15:26 -0400

Seeing progress boosts your performance: In a recent study, students were paid to build Lego figurines called Bionicles. Every additional figurine earned a decreasing amount of money. Group one participants saw their Bionicles dismantled as soon as they were built. While told that their work would be disassembled at the end of the study, group two students placed each completed Bionicle on a desk before continuing onto the next one. Group two out-built group one, eleven to seven.

Seeing the visible indication of progress of accumulating Bionicles drove group one to keep building, even with diminishing monetary returns and knowledge of their Bionicles’ eventual disassembled fates.

Countless game, app, and website designers grasp this potency of visible progress. Managers can leverage that motivating effect by communicating progress to their team and showing how their work interacts to move the needle. Everyone gets a boost by showing their work, keeping track of and recording their accomplishments. Take time to reflect on and acknowledge how your work has progressed. All it takes is a pause to get the satisfying sight of all your own kind of accumulating Bionicles rather than letting them slip past you, unrecognized sources of fuel.

3 motivational mind tricks designed to power progress

Is Your Sunscreen Lying to You? | Mother Jones

acupuncturegirl — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:08:31 -0400

Is Your Sunscreen Lying to You? | Mother Jones

Roundup, An Herbicide, Could Be Linked To Parkinson's, Cancer And Other Health Issues, Study Shows

acupuncturegirl — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:46:36 -0400

Roundup, An Herbicide, Could Be Linked To Parkinson's, Cancer And Other Health Issues, Study Shows

fastcompany: See some of the world’s most beautiful abandoned...

acupuncturegirl — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:05:45 -0400

fastcompany:

See some of the world’s most beautiful abandoned places

Take a tour of the world’s apparently robust supply of empty castles, power plants, and churches—and witness the surprising grandeur of dilapidation.

A tired screenwriting trope is to use abandoned places as settings where one’s gory horror scenarios might unfold—the house nobody has been inside for years, the decrepit mental hospital kids dare each other to sneak into. But “abandoned” doesn’t always mean “scary.” In fact, in some cases, it can be downright breathtaking—and not in a strangulation kind of way.

See and read more here.

photojojo: As far as photography jobs go, it doesn’t get much...

acupuncturegirl — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:42:52 -0400

photojojo:

As far as photography jobs go, it doesn’t get much better than being the personal photographer to the President of the United States. During his tenure in that position, Jacques Lowe amassed an archive of over 40,000 negatives.

Tragically, all but 1,500 of the remaining negatives in storage were destroyed during the attacks on 9/11. A team of seven imaging specialists spent 600 hours restoring the photographs, which are now on display in New York.

Rare Presidential Photos Restored from Damaged Archive

via Reddit

mothernaturenetwork: Michelangelo’s ugliest drawing may not be...

acupuncturegirl — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:23:27 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

Michelangelo’s ugliest drawing may not be his

The rough sketch may have actually been drawn by a student of the Renaissance artist.

photojojo: Carol Inez Charney is a San Francisco based...

acupuncturegirl — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:05:48 -0400

photojojo:

Carol Inez Charney is a San Francisco based photographer who specializes in manipulating close-up photos of water on windows.

She uses background color that’s slightly out of focus to make the photos resemble abstract oil paintings.

Photos of Water on Windows Resemble Paintings

via Beautiful Decay

9gag: Copier is out of order sign

acupuncturegirl — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:43:46 -0400

9gag:

Copier is out of order sign

fastcompany: Learning Vs. Earning At Work: A Value...

acupuncturegirl — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:05:06 -0400

fastcompany:

Learning Vs. Earning At Work: A Value Comparison

When you take a job, they give you resources like money in exchange for your resources, like time.

Here’s how you can know if you’re striking the right deal.

thedailywhat: Conspiracy Theory of the Day: Obama Employs a...

acupuncturegirl — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:51:13 -0400

thedailywhat:

Conspiracy Theory of the Day: Obama Employs a Reptilian Shapeshifter?

The latest conspiracy theory surrounding President Obama stems from this video clip of a bald-headed Secret Service agent who briefly appears in the background during the president’s speech on March 4th, which of course gave rise to the ridiculous assertion that the man is really a “shapeshifter alien humanoid” due to his peculiar head and facial structures. When inquired by Wired, the National Security Council’s spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden apparently quipped that while she “can’t confirm the claims made in this video, but any alleged program to guard the president with aliens or robots would likely have to be scaled back or eliminated in the sequester.”

mothernaturenetwork: Hold the salt: Salt consumption blamed for...

acupuncturegirl — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:24:22 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

Hold the salt: Salt consumption blamed for 1 in 10 U.S. deaths

New study finds that overconsumption of salt was responsible for more than 2 million deaths worldwide in 2010.

Woodstock, 1969. [x]

acupuncturegirl — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:12:15 -0400

Woodstock, 1969. [x]

peeja: I have to admit, I didn’t really get what “The 1%”...

acupuncturegirl — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:09:41 -0400

peeja:

I have to admit, I didn’t really get what “The 1%” meant before I saw this video. This is pretty straightforward.

Don’t cut yourself on that spike.

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/ag-ag-illegal-undercover-film-livestock

acupuncturegirl — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:02:23 -0400

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/ag-ag-illegal-undercover-film-livestock:

motherjones:

listentolex:

What’s it like inside a factory farm? If the livestock and meat industries have their way, what little view we have inside the walls of these animal-reviewing facilities may soon be obscured. For the second year in a row, the industry is backing bills in various statehouses that would criminalize undercover investigations of livestock farms.

Because, you know, there’s nothing shady about criminalizing undercover investigations. It doesn’t seem like factory farmers have anything to hide at all! [/sarcasm]

*If you click through to the Mother Jones story and watch the video included in their post, be forewarned that it’s pretty disturbing. I won’t be eating eggs or any chicken products for a minute.

Yes, our stories on the ag industry do tend to have that effect. (See also: This.)

But in the event that we haven’t totally discouraged you from eating meat, we do have a pretty killer wine-braised short ribs recipe. It’s the least we can do.

npr: (via 16 Photographs That Capture the Best and Worst of...

acupuncturegirl — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:43:51 -0400

npr:

(via 16 Photographs That Capture the Best and Worst of 1970s America | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine)

A new exhibit at the National Archives highlights an interesting decade—one that gave rise to the environmental movement and some awkward fashion

These photos represent exactly how my brain remembers the 1970s. —heidi

Photo: National Archives

motherjones: $55 billion.

acupuncturegirl — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:03:16 -0400

motherjones:

*$55 billion.*

theatlantic: The Complex, Often Idealistic Reasons Feminists...

acupuncturegirl — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:49:03 -0400

theatlantic:

The Complex, Often Idealistic Reasons Feminists Become Housewives

There’s much to admire about the culture of new domesticity. But, as Miller’s story illustrates, the belief in the power of homemaking too often overlaps with a weird brand of neo-gender essentialism. The women in her story, like many people I’ve met during my research, turned progressive sentiments about the value of “women’s work” and the goodness of all things “natural” into an awfully conservative-seeming worldview in which women are “inherently” better parents than men, and it’s “just natural” to cook from scratch, grind your own baby food, etc. rather than rely on modern labor-saving inventions like restaurants and chain supermarkets and daycares. All too often, the movement ignores broad social change (workplace reform, school reform, food reform, etc.) in favor of a DIY approach. That’s a lot more work for mom.

Read more. [Image: The National Archives, United Kingdom]

motherjones: Happy 10th anniversary, Iraq war. We got you these...

acupuncturegirl — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:57:17 -0400

motherjones:

Happy 10th anniversary, Iraq war. We got you these charts.

The Ultimate Guide To Avoiding Pesky Airline Fees | Wanderplex

acupuncturegirl — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:45:41 -0400

The Ultimate Guide To Avoiding Pesky Airline Fees | Wanderplex

Sanctuary

The last word: He said he was leaving. She ignored him. - The Week

fastcompany: Seeing progress boosts your performance: In a...

Is Your Sunscreen Lying to You? | Mother Jones

Roundup, An Herbicide, Could Be Linked To Parkinson's, Cancer And Other Health Issues, Study Shows

fastcompany: See some of the world’s most beautiful abandoned...

See some of the world’s most beautiful abandoned places

photojojo: As far as photography jobs go, it doesn’t get much...

mothernaturenetwork: Michelangelo’s ugliest drawing may not be...

photojojo: Carol Inez Charney is a San Francisco based...

9gag: Copier is out of order sign

fastcompany: Learning Vs. Earning At Work: A Value...

Learning Vs. Earning At Work: A Value Comparison

thedailywhat: Conspiracy Theory of the Day: Obama Employs a...

mothernaturenetwork: Hold the salt: Salt consumption blamed for...

Woodstock, 1969. [x]

peeja: I have to admit, I didn’t really get what “The 1%”...

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/ag-ag-illegal-undercover-film-livestock

npr: (via 16 Photographs That Capture the Best and Worst of...

motherjones: *$55 billion.*

theatlantic: The Complex, Often Idealistic Reasons Feminists...

motherjones: Happy 10th anniversary, Iraq war. We got you these...

The Ultimate Guide To Avoiding Pesky Airline Fees | Wanderplex

motherjones: $55 billion.