rethink

How do you make yourself stop eating rice?

The biggest weight loss I've ever experienced in my life was when I stopped eating rice. It was a total loss of 35 lbs in just a span of a few months! This changed when I finally found the love of my...

trust fund

i did a post on what i intended to do about my will.given the input i had,i have decided that i will set up 3 trust funds for my kids.to mature when they reach a certain age.that way i can then leave...

Ford $8.7 Billion in Losses

Bloomberg reported, Ford Motor Company recorded $8.7 billion in quarterly losses, causing the world's third-largest automaker to rethink a conversion to more fuel-efficient vehicles. Ford believes...

The WPost on Science, Politics, and the Miserly Public

As I like to say, when it comes to science debates, the public is far more likely to be miserly in reaching a judgment than fully informed. Most citizens are cognitive misers relying heavily on...

Should We Support the Modeling Industry?

Elle of Kiss Me Stace stopped by the blog the other day to leave her thoughts on my post, Celebrity-Less Fashion Ads, and what she had to say made me stop and rethink the idea about using models in...

Access Revolution: The Birth, Growth, and Supremacy of Electronic Journals as an Information Medium

by Medeiros, Norm (2008) Abstract: The tremendous growth of e-journals in the marketplace has forced libraries to rethink their means of providing access to these coveted resources. Over the past 20...

How Reddit is Flirting With The Future of Social News

In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities and an API recently)....

Fires limit recreation on forest

Those who wanted to hike or camp this Fourth of July may have to rethink their plans as lightning fires continue to burn on the Tahoe National Forest.

When government runs your healthcare ...

Remember the outcry when Cigna wouldn’t approve what it considered experimental liver transplant surgery for a young woman (Cigna later approved it but she died before the operation could be...

More thoughts on how libraries and information are changing?

From The Library in the New Age via Ed?Information has never been stable. That may be a truism, but it bears pondering. It could serve as a corrective to the belief that the speedup in...

Susan Sarandon plans to move if McCain is elected president

Hmmm...makes me rethink voting for Bob Barr just to see if she'll do it (didn't Baldwin say he would leave and didn't?). I guess she isn't one of those Hollywood liberals who are secretly supporting...

Tired Stereotypes About Renters

You've heard these stereotypes about renting, circulated by people and organizations with a financial interest in selling you a mortgage:Renting is for poor people.and,Renters don't get involved in...