December 2009
“Put simply, dopamine neurons monitor dopamine, a chemical that accompanies good...”
– The psychology of a gamer’s search for phat loot
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual...”
– George Carlin (via marco)
“High-promiscuity men who looked at photos of eight attractive women … said they...”
– Overcoming Bias : Naked Promiscuity
“The average NFL player plays just 3.52 seasons and loses two to three years off...”
– Overcoming Bias : Football Decimation
“Overall, property crimes fell by 6.1 percent, and violent crimes by 4.4 percent,...”
– Despite recession, crime keeps falling - Yahoo! News
“Neiman Marcus actually was the first to sell gift cards, in 1994, but because...”
– The Vile History of Gift Cards and How They Came to Destroy Christmas - Presents - Gizmodo
“And the metaphor of the train cropped up a lot in The Wire, particularly in...”
– HBO: The Wire: Ear to the Streets: Fast Train
“Married women in the U.S. do about 70 to 80 percent of the housework. When women...”
– Of Housework And Husbands [via] (via anthropophagous)
“A lot of what The Wire was about sounds cynical to people. I think it’s very...”
– DAVID SIMON - Vice Magazine
“As of today, roughly 80 percent of the stories checked have contained some form...”
– Meet the Tilburg Checkers : CJR
“On average just 40% of the seminary students offered help (with a few stepping...”
– When Situations Not Personality Dictate Our Behaviour | PsyBlog
“61 per cent of respondents – in this case Japanese mothers with young children –...”
– FT.com / Reports - From golf swings to toilet flushing: the mobile phone delivers
“Increasingly we offload the need to remember the minutiae our day-to-day lives...”
– History’s New Gatekeepers - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect
“Hate crimes seem to go up in the spring and summer months (hibernation?). Hate...”
– 2009 Hate Crime Report - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“Today is the 16th anniversary of the release of the DOOM shareware back in 1993....”
– Out of the Blue - Blue’s News Story
“So, for example, you could charge $24 for the Kindle edition for the first two...”
– Seth’s Blog: The magic of dynamic pricing
“It seems strange to have to emphasize simplicity. You’d think simple would be...”
– Paul Graham on Simplicity- 90 Percent of Everything
“It is impossible to convince a person of any true thing that will cost him...”
– ‘First Theorem of Science’ - either George Chapline or Robert B.Laughlin (via Bryan Appleyard) (via chrbutler)
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its...”
– Herbert Simon (via m82) (via fuckyeahinfo)
Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study... →
“This is what we do, humans. We tinker, and change, and endlessly imagine a more...”
– Ira Glass (speaking about factory farms) from s1e6 of This American Life, the television show. (via spaceminer)
“The average of all these studies suggests that offering lots of extra choices...”
– Is the Paradox of Choice Not So Paradoxical After All? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“- 18% of teen boys and 22% of teen girls say they have sent/posted nude or...”
– Truth in Advertising: To Sext or Not to Sext? LG’s PSAs with James Lipton « MobileBehavior
