February 2012
But no one knows why so many runners get hurt, although a number of theories...
– Phys Ed: Does Foot Form Explain Running Injuries? - NYTimes.com
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s because in most situations. running is simply not natural.
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Good God, Apple is going to hit 500
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The opposite is also the case. People with dyslexia, who have a bias in favor of...
– The Upside of Dyslexia - NYTimes.com
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Best Practice This refers to a method or technique that delivers superior...
– The Most Annoying, Pretentious And Useless Business Jargon - Forbes
Or as I like to say, completely fucking obvious.
Assumptions The probability of seeing a state license plate A in another state B depends on the distance between their state capitals. It is scaled by the number of licensed drivers in state A. (This indirectly means that the probability does not depend on how long we are in a state).
Seeing state license plates A, B, etc. are independent from other license plates in a given state D.
Seeing given state license plate A is independent when driving across states B, C,…
We do not adjust for round trips.
The distance between state capitals was found here. The number of licensed drivers per state is here. I estimated the odds of seeing a license plate from state A in state B is captured by this formula: P = exp(-K * (Distance from A to B in miles) / # of licensed drivers) with K = 7000 – 2000*Summer01 – 1000*ExpensiveGas01. Summer01 is 1 if it is summer break and 0 otherwise. ExpensiveGas01 is 1 if it gas is “expensive” and AAA predicts that road trips will be down and 0 otherwise
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I don’t have credit card debt because Suze Orman advises against it, but I was...
– Banks Taketh, but Don’t Giveth - NYTimes.com
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January 2012
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The crucial new idea is that there are two different neural and psychological...
– What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com
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The truth? Of the 46 million people living in poverty in America in 2010, the...
– Whites and Welfare: GOP and the Food Stamp Fallacy
Kodak’s other structural problem is geography. When you study the history...
– Rich Karlgaard: Kodak Didn’t Kill Rochester—It Was the Other Way Around - WSJ.com
El Paso County is the most populous of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado...
– El Paso County, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I had no idea. I would have sworn it was Denver.
You’re not a Washington insider? You [Newt Gingrich], the former Speaker of the...
– Jon Stewart (via azspot)
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The rosy results sent Apple shares soaring more than 7 percent in after-hours...
– Apple’s Profit Doubled on Holiday Customers Snapping Up iPhones - NYTimes.com
Fuck Yeah.
- In 2005, Dotcom showed up in a Vanity Fair profile of the Gumball 3000, a...
– Inside Megaupload’s Megamind: Kim Dotcom’s Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, And Private War On Terror | Fast Company
This guy is hilarious.
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Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to make drastic changes in order to notice an improvement in the quality of your life. At the same time, you don’t need to wait a long time in order to see the measurable results that come from taking positive action. All you have to do is take small…
This is a monster task. I’ll take a few bites from this.
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I’m Senator Ron Wyden and wanted to say thank you... →
Yet another reason why I want to move to Oregon.
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Intel almost bit the dust in the mid-1980s but came back to greater glory. Like...
– Rich Karlgaard: Kodak Didn’t Kill Rochester—It Was the Other Way Around - WSJ.com
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She reportedly had numerous affairs, with, among others, Duke Kahanamoku, Errol...
– Doris Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That’s quite a unique list. Old Blood and Guts and The Father of Surfing.
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The greatest rates of abuse continue to be found on college campuses, where...
– Scarcity of ADHD drugs points to larger problem - latimes.com
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