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Ten Things I Have Learned Milton Glaser makes several very insightful observations.

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How your friends’ friends can affect your mood – life – 30 December 2008 – New Scientist it is becoming clear that a whole range of phenomena are transmitted through networks of friends in ways that are not entirely understood: happiness and depression, obesity, drinking and smoking habits, ill-health, the…

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Some Things I’d Like to Say

1) Perception is flawed. To believe otherwise is to open yourself up to deception.2) We rarely have all the facts.3) Until the law came, there was no sin.4) Hope in anything except Christ is false hope.5) I’ve become a very very jaded man.6) I predicted Barack Obama would become the…

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Warning – Habits May Be Good for You – NYTimes.com How advertising learned to make things appealing, and how our actions are cued by habits.

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ireneQ – unravelled: Busy affirming “… when there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication, or somebody does something to hurt or upset me or otherwise get on my nerves, I often see the other person’s side of the story.”Me too

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – William Morrow, 2005 It’s the little things that make the difference. Who you are when no one is looking, is who you are when all eyes are on you.

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Wired News: Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless “People believe that information is power, and it is sometimes, but it is still a complicated system,” Man, how true is that!

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Megan: This summary of the five basic steps for making successful small talk might be helpful when planning the segment

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The Rewards of Being Shy — Hochman 2006 (613): 3 — ScienceNOW I particularly liked the way they brought out the fact that often the reason why shy people have a hard time in situations is because they are dealing with information overload.

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The New Yorker: HERE’S WHY – A sociologist offers an anatomy of explanations. by MALCOLM GLADWELL “In “Why?” (Princeton; $24.95), the Columbia University scholar Charles Tilly sets out to make sense of our reasons for giving reasons.”

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Up With Grups – The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood — New York Magazine

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The Little Men Who Love Little House – Why boys like girls books. By Emily Bazelon I read rather broadly when I was a kid, mostly because I would run out of books of my own and have to resort to whatever I could find around the house.

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The Key to Urban Renewal isn’t in Cool its in the boring middle class. How true.

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