Michael Rush: “Friendships were strained. People would sometimes walk the other way when they saw me coming. I had been friendly with the president and provost before this. One day later, I was their enemy.”
Tag: 02.14.10
Anatomy Of The Perfect Blog Post
“This sentence contains the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.”
Study: Sweet Smell Makes People Behave More Sweetly
“A team of researchers found that when people were in a room recently spritzed with a citrus-scented cleanser, they behaved more fairly when playing a classic trust game. In another experiment, the smell of cleanser made subjects more likely to volunteer for a charity. The findings suggest that simply smelling something clean makes people clean up their behavior.”
Google Books Just The Latest IP Fight
“It’s tempting – Google certainly encourages this – to see the age of MicrAmazoogle as revolutionary, a thrilling new era in which the civilised world can airbrush the imperfections of the past and march into a new dawn.” But “from print culture’s beginnings to the rise of the internet, there has been a succession of intellectual property wars for which the English language has just one word: piracy.”