Monthly Archives: November 2007

Reports of Death of Reading Exaggerated

Good news if you’re an author or publisher. Media Life magazine reports that:
…for all these different toys, these wonderful new technologies, reading tops the list of things Americans would most rather do, given the choice, and by a large margin.
Not only that, reading is higher on that list than ever. Watching TV is No. [...]

It’s Just Physics, Dude.

A surfer has come up with an elegant, possibly provable, theory of everything. (I know this sounds like the start of an Onion article, but it’s the real deal.)
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from [...]

It’s Official: Giving Makes You Richer

There’s a long history in self-development and success literature of promoting giving as the path to getting. And as you’d expect, there have been naysayers all along who hold that it’s easy to give once you’ve already gotten, and that the whole theory is bunk.
Now it turns out that there really is some science to [...]