Michael Morris is at it again at Funmentionables. This time he's frustrated with snake handlers. Here's an excerpt:
So let’s make a new First Commandment, even before “Love the Lord your God and your neighbor etc.” and it’s this: “First and foremost, use your brain.” Period. I don’t want to read any more news stories of snake handlers dying in my name.The article contains an interview with Jesus H. Christ, who corrects some errors in the Bible.
Excellent points made in this article describing how Google hires. The title is, "Why Google doesn’t care about hiring top college graduates." These approaches dovetail well with Paul Tough's book, "How Children Succeed." Here's an excerpt:
Google looks for the ability to step back and embrace other people’s ideas when they’re better. “It’s ‘intellectual humility.’ Without humility, you are unable to learn,” Bock says. “Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn how to learn from that failure.”
When I visit the Popular Page of 500px, I'm overwhelmed. At least every other photo is stunning. And at least on every tenth photo, I think, "If I had taken THAT photo, it would have been one of best photos I had ever taken in my life. Really worth a visit.
I see a lot of cartoons on Facebook. Many of them have no attribution, and quite a few of them are clever. Here is a small collection of 8 such cartoons I've spotted over the past year. Topic: Religion.
I enjoyed this primer on super-stimuli by Gregory Ciotti, titled "Is Your Brain Truly Ready for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet?" Super stimuli, featuring the work of Niko Tinbergen. He discovered that we can hijack animal's instincts beyond their evolutionary purpose.