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“I know you want your dietary preferences to be taken seriously…”

Why Food Allergy Fakers Need to Stop

I know you want your dietary preferences to be taken seriously, and you think invoking the A-word is a harmless little white lie. But you have no idea how much trouble you’re causing and how much you’re helping to erode hard-won progress for people with genuine allergies and disorders.

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I think we might have had this poster when i was a kid.

I think we might have had this poster when i was a kid. I’ve at least seen it. Also, it’s worth following the link to the site where they picked up the image, because there’s a short animation based on it.

A Map of the Menschmaschine

How Futurism gave us the word “robot,” the movie Metropolis, and this map of the body as a factory.

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Interesting (and useful) perspective: “Procrastinators are intrinsically and not ex­trinsically motivated, meaning that neither…

Don’t Delay Exploring the Science of Your Child’s Procrastination

Research is showing that procras­tination isn’t a defect in ability or personality but rather a disconnect between the demands of a task and what motivates the procrastinator.

Interesting (and useful) perspective: “Procrastinators are intrinsically and not ex­trinsically motivated, meaning that neither tempting them with rewards nor warning them the sky will fall is likely to up their motivation to the threshold of action. Instead, the procrastinator has to want to do something.”

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