I’m a little late on this, but I’m happy to report that I’ll be writing a monthly column for Yahoo! Finance. Called “The Trend Desk,” the column will offer readers a first look at the forces about to reshape their financial and economic lives. The first installment is here. And my fellow columnists are an […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune has a fun piece on the growing popularity of laughter clubs in southern California. (Thanks to Mike Atkinson for this one.)
I don’t make a habit of re-reading magazine articles. But on a flight today, I re-read Kevin Kelly’s article, “We Are The Web,” from the August Wired. I’m glad I did. It’s the smartest and most illuminating analysis of the Internet I’ve read in a long while. Don’t take my word for it, though. Read
Left-handed men earn 4% more than right-handed men, a new study reports. What’s going on? Researchers aren’t sure, but they have a hypothesis. Our brains are contralateral — that is, the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body and the left hemisphere the right side. And this, say researchers, “may explain why left-handers
Because of a screw-up on our end, DanPink.com disappeared for a little while this weekend. If you can read this, that means the site is working fine and the problem is solved. But if you sent an email in the last 48 hours that bounced back, please send again. Apologies for the inconvenience.
More colleges are including whole-minded courses in gaming in their curricula, says this AP story. “From Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute to the University of Colorado, at least 50 schools around the country now offer courses in video game study.”
The Times of India reports that international flight attendants with layovers in Mumbai “are increasingly making use of their brief stopovers in the city to visit dermatologists for an uplifting shot of Botox.” Why? Botox treatments in India are much cheaper than they are here in the U.S. (From PSFK.)
Working Today has just released an ambitious survey on the state of independent workers in New York City. According to the New York Times, “A striking finding of the survey was the vehemence with which many freelancers rejected the inflexibility of the corporate world once they have been cut loose from full-time positions.” (Get the
I just discovered this review of A Whole New Mind. Not only does reviewer Patricia Digh elegantly summarize the book, she does so in the form of a haiku. (Also check out her review of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.)
“[M]ore than 724,000 Americans report that eBay is their primary or secondary source of income. In addition to these professional eBay sellers, another 1.5 million individuals say they supplement their income by selling on eBay.” (from Trendwatching.com)
