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2000 — Not-for-profit entrepreneur Ellen Baxter '75 presents a lecture entitled "Homelessness in New York City: The Courts, the Politics and Pragmatic Solutions,” in the chapel.

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Top 10 Cities Where Americans Most Want to Live (Huffington Post)

 

 

The Big Apple continues its 10-year run as the city in which people say they’d most like to live, but Boston and Dallas are on the rise.

Noticeably absent from the list: Los Angeles, Miami and D.C. The Huffington Post counts them down.

Slideshow: Putting It On the Line

Happy to put October’s freak snowstorm behind them, students took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather Tuesday to take a break between classes — and between trees. The Quad is a favorite spot for the sport of slacklining.

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Steps to Better Decision Making (Farnam Street)

Decisions are ideally the result of rational and intentional reasoning, but for many, the process instead is one clouded by any number of conscious and unconscious influences.

Farnam Street has assembled a primer of sorts on decision making and curates steps to reaching the optimal decision.

Will The Year Bring Food, Energy Shortages? (Salon.com)

Experts predict a rocky year ahead, and more to follow, as increasing population and global consumption stir poverty and unrest. The big picture is further complicated by increased severity and frequency of catastrophic weather events, which may affect grain harvests, analysts warn.

Rudolph Creator — Would You Believe, Montgomery Ward? (Discovery)

Shhhh, don’t tell the kids. Santa didn’t discover Rudolph and his red nose — a lowly copywriter at Montgomery Ward did in the 1930s.

Bowdoin Webmaster Is On His Game

Bowdoin Webmaster Mark Leaman is feeling a little snowed under at the moment. And he couldn’t be happier.

Leaman, who helps keep Bowdoin’s Web services up and running by day, is spending his evenings madly assembling a tabletop game he invented called Cabin Fever, which he sells as a sideline business.

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'I Was Only Joking' and Nine More Passive Aggressive Phrases to Avoid (Psychology Today)

If you have to tell someone you were only joking, they probably didn’t get the joke. Might be best to recognize this and other passive aggressive phrases commonly in use.

You Tawkin' to Me? Not Anymore as New Yorkers Unlearn Their Accent (The New York Times)

The classic New York accent isn’t as prevalent as it once was, and with some seeing it as a hindrance in an era of globalization, it may become endangered as so-called “New York accent reduction specialists” find their services increasingly in demand.

Video: Pickpocket-Magician Teaches Neurologists Tricks About The Brain (Scientific American)

By studying the cognitive illusions of master pickpocket Apollo Robbins, scientists hope to gain new perspectives on how the brain works.

What If All Books Were Available Online? (New York Review of Books)

Harvard University Library Director Robert Darnton makes the case for developing a national digital library, citing Thomas Jefferson’s stated vision that: “Knowledge is the common property of mankind.”