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Are You Happy, Or Just Remembering Wrong?

by Tim Berry on March 4, 2010

in Advice, Reflections

Here is another great TED talk, this one from TED last month in California. Are you happy? Here’s the TED summary:
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, [...]

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On Cities, Food, History, and Future

by Tim Berry on October 15, 2009

in Current Affairs, Economics

In honor of Blog Action Day, the video here is a 15-minute TED talk by Carolyn Steel, author and architect. Among the startling things she says here:

We lose about 47 million acres of rainforest every year. And at the same time, we lose about 50 million acres of farm land to salinization and erosion.
Half the [...]

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The Web as Random Acts of Kindness

by Tim Berry on September 24, 2009

in Current Affairs, True Stories, Web/Tech

Researchers put a cute-looking cardboard robot on the streets of New York. It could only go forward but it had a note asking people to help it to its destination. It got there quickly with the help of 43 people. They asked for nothing in return.
A teenager got caught on YouTube with a humiliating [...]

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Stewart Brand’s 4 Environmental Heresies

by Tim Berry on July 14, 2009

in Current Affairs, Green Business, Web/Tech

I’ve been a reader of, and kind of a fan of, Stewart Brand for just about 40 years now, since the first Whole Earth Catalog came out while I was in college. To me he stands for the long-term component of so-called “hippie” values that have since become mainstream, because they make sense. Among them, [...]

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