 Our
ancestors’ age-old wisdom of putting a little aside for
just-in-case robustness has been replaced by a delusion of
just-in-time efficiency...
David Brin,
Tomorrow Happens, Open.Salon
latest post in a
series
on the new ecomomy
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What makes a
great teacher?
 Most
Likely to Succeed
In the current issue of
The New
Yorker online, Malcolm Gladwell (author of "Outliers")
offers a provocative look at what makes a great teacher, and then
suggests that finding one is about as hard as scouting a world-class
quarterback.
Click here to read.
"Social change has a natural rhythm. The season of
prosperity gives way to the season of scarcity, and out of the
winter of recession, new growth has room to emerge.
A stimulus package may be necessary, but
unless
 designed
with care, its main effect will be to prop up the drying husks..."
David
Brooks |
Science headers
this week..
Psychiatric Drugs Replacing Talk Therapy (SciAm)
Boom times for brain training games
(CNN.com)
The Evolutionary Origins of Schizophrenia (SciAm)
When
Anti-Meth Ads Go Wrong
(Open.Salon)
A Diet Plan That Works: Pay for Weigh (Time)
A Study To Smile About: Happiness Is Contagious (NPR
podcast, SciFri); same study reported on in
Reuters Health
A Teenager’s Confidentiality
Cancer to pass heart disease as world's top killer (CNN.com)
And from NYT Health this week..
Severe Heart Attacks Deadlier for Women
Hospitals Face a New Epidemic: Bedsores
Morning Rounds: Drug Industry Shakeout, Thicker Lashes and the End
of a Plague
Obama
Discusses Health Care
Listen Now on NPR
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21st Century
Paradigm
Shifts
How Will You Get Your News in 2012?
asked Neil Conan on Talk of the Nation last Thursday discussing
the future fate of print journalism with industry experts. The
consensus is print will stick but the specifics may differ. Do Web readers and print people
seek different content? Click here for the
NPR podcast.
Speaking of news in alternative
views, click on the image above to see a real-time
graphic of current headlines, then
bookmark the
page if you want to see it update.
 Micro-Local: Another emerging trend in news and reporting is
"micro local" reporting such as the lively
High Point
Neighborhood site in west Seattle.
Stuffing the Virtual
Stocking: Cheapest Gift You Can
Give a Kid... Hi5 is joining Facebook in
the virtual gift-giving business, where users can purchases tiny images for around a dollar that appear on a friend's
profile. MySpace has also announced that it will be opening up
its own shop soon.
Wired.com
 Are old-style suburbs on the way out?
"...
If you asked people in that age of go-go
suburbia what they wanted in new housing, they often said they
wanted a golf course. But the culture has changed...
If you ask people today what they want, they’re more
likely to say coffee shops, hiking trails and community centers...
NYT
This is the second
newsbit
I have seen this week suggesting gathering spots will matter
most in the burbs of tomorrow, since people want to congregate more.
Land planners and builders take note.
BBWZ Distractions
6 Things to Know
about My Three Sons
(Mental Floss)
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Well worth a view, the Frontline
program "Can You Afford to Retire?"
The entire hour can be watched here online
It
appears someone in Congress read Tom
Friedman this week:
 ...our
bailout of Detroit
will be remembered as the equivalent
of pouring
billions of dollars of into the
mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of
the birth of eBay. Tom
Friedman, NYT.
On the same topic, over on the Huffington Post, Jane Hamsher
argues the opposite:
Why Detroit -- Like New York -- Shouldn't Be Allowed To Go Bankrupt
while below Newsweek gives its POV on the whole issue
of what to do with Detroit:
How the Car Czar Could Save the Auto Industry:
Step-by-step directions for Detroit's new car czar. And while
you're over at Newsweek, here is a link to another provocative piece on the economy:
Can Ayn Rand Survive the Economic Crisis?
Entreprenuring
The
Art of Bootstrapping
is a list of practical business tips for
tough times by Apple Evangelist Guy
Kawaski published on the AmEx Open Forum.
Click here to read. Also on the same site by the same author,
The No-Bull-Shiitake Investor Wishlist,
and the unfortunate but possibly
necessary
“The Art of Laying People Off."As Guy himself notes while posting
this last link,
"Actually, I hope you don’t have to read
it."
Obama's Secretary of
Food? Click on the link below to see who foodemocracynow.org thinks would are the best nominees for Secretary of Ag, setting new kinds of farm policy.
Link to detail.
Preview of "Blind Trust" cartoon at
bendib.com (click on
image to view it whole at their site)
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Click on image for details at Amazon.com
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
In Defense
of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
David Linden
Boomer Consumer: Ten New Rules for Marketing to America"s Largest, Wealthiest and Most Influential Group
Matt Thornhill
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