October 2010
15 posts
“Poetry is the flower of associational thinking”
– Robin Blaser
melt my heart of stone →
I’ll anecdote one story.
This girl, Maggie Doyne, is a bright high school senior - great grades, varsity athlete - decides to take a gap year. Travels to Nepal, meets a girl, hikes three days to get to her village - decides to stay in this village because the main form of recreation for the children there is chipping away at rocks near a river.
So she takes the $5,000 she raised...
young me//now me →
People post up older pictures of them when they were young, and newer pictures of them now.
It’s really entertaining! trust me!
cheaper than bartending school →
America 1925 -> 1950 →
This is what people in 1925 thought 1950 would look like.
that was easy →
Walk into Cartier. Ask to see the most expensive ring (est. $700,000). Walk out with it in your pocket.
End of story.
Mean Duke Students →
So as a Duke basketball aficionado - the minute I heard that Hummel had re-torn his ACL, I immediately did a heh heh - well that sucks for him. Purdue is right behind for the #1 seed for this year and so them losing their best player again is alright with me.
However, I read this article and I realize that I wouldn’t wish this on anyone TWICE. The physical pain with the mental and morale...
2nd day of Nobel Prize week
Have you heard of the first 2-dimensional material GRAPHENE? Yeah - it sounds like graphite and it practically is graphite but it isn’t. This material can be used for faster computers (because that’s what corporations want) and it helps quantum mechanics became more complicated (because that’s what physicists want).
Okay so graphene didn’t win the Nobel Prize in...
First Day of Nobel Prize Week
October 4, 2010
Robert G. Edwards won a Nobel Prize in Medicine today. He was the first man to be successful in in-vitro fertilization. In 1978, Louise Brown was declared the first “test-tube baby”. Since then 4 million other human beings came into being through Dr. Edward’s work.
//on a side note - there are so many ways describing this man’s work could be crudely...
yeesh! people in hong kong hate other people. →
only 1/2
So the Economist tells me that only 50% of all MBA recipients are satisfied with their jobs. Their intended futures did not unfold with their business school commencements.
Considerable.
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own....”
– The Great Gatsby
Angela Ahrendts →
So this article is about Angela Ahrendts who is the CEO of Burberry. Yes the fashion company.
I found this to be a particularly good read because this woman worked herself from the very bottom to the top of a 2 billion dollar company. Her favorite moment as Burberry’s CEO is when she got to give the commencement speech at her alma mater because she knew that for 23 minutes she could touch...
