Interesting+Articles+from+2010+and+earlier

Interesting Articles that I read in 2010 or earlier:
BOOKS * BUSINESS * COMMUNICATION * CULTURE * EVOLUTION * FOOD * FUNNY STUFF * HEALTH&EXERCISE LANGUAGE * LEARNING * MIND * PERSUASION * POLITICS * RELATIONSHIPS * SCIENCE * SEX * TECH * WRITING

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Defensive Selling: [|How businesses cope with rage-filled customers]

[|Want to be popular on the internet? Be a jerk.]

Horizon: Is seeing believing? video quiz: [] []

YouTube clips of the Program: Is Seeing Believing? Part 1: [] Part 2: [] Part 3: [] Part 4: [] Part 5: [] Part 6: []

What makes a genius? [] Did cooking make us human? []

[|High BPA levels don't swim well with sperm]

[|In praise of virtual desktop software]

[|Teachers, students and Facebook, a toxic mix]

[|The European approach to teen sex and love, in pictures]

[|Can avatars and hyper-real video conferencing replace business meetings?]

Christina Hendricks on an Endless Loop: [|The glorious GIF renaissance].

In Defense of Middle Management: [|A new study demonstrates just how important bureaucracy and paperwork really are].

[|The race to buy up the world's water]

Don't stick it in: [|The dangers of USB drives]

[|Americans safer, more experimental in bed] [|ABC news story on the sex survery] [|The Ass Man Cometh] [|Pretzel Nation, Americans have sex in 41 combinations]

[|When did blondes get so dumb?] [|Stereotype Threat]

[|Laptops lead to toasted skin syndrome]

[|Neurotic people are not just unhappy, they are expensive]

[|Junk Food Diet]

Bugged Naked: [|Webcams, sex, and the death of privacy]

The Sex Part: [|Can men and women really be friends]?

[|Chinese Masters of the Yuan Dynasty]

[|The Spin Cycle]: Tide's Loads of Hope program is one part do-goodery, one part marketing genius.

[|And Now a Message From Chuck Lorre]

"[|It's Like a Safari, and We're the Zebras]"

[|World's coral faces second mass die-off]

[|Super salmon or 'frankenfish'? FDA to decide] [|How Can the FDA Tell Whether GMO Fish Are Safe?]

[|The price of love? Losing two of your closest friends]

Fashion Designer Unveils Spray-On Fabric : [] []

[|Why we believe propaganda]

[|PowerPoint isn't evil if you learn how to use it]

[|Confessing to Crime, but Innocent]

[|Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate] [|Call of Duty' Video Game Trains Brains for Fast, Accurate Decision-Making] [|Shoot-'Em-Ups Make You Smarter] (Slatest version) People who spend hours playing Call of Duty 2 are much better at decision-making than people who play the Sims, researchers say.

CitiBank Advises Women Not To Sabotage Their Careers: [] [|Check Out Citigroup's Guide To Emailing Without Getting Busted]

[|Research in the Crib]: What happens when language scientists use their own children as test subjects?

How Are Humans Unique? By MICHAEL TOMASELLO: []

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Looking for Baby Sitters: Foreign Language a Must: []

Learning a Language From an Expert, on the Web: []

Does your language shape how you think. Mention of Whorf hypothesis. Shows how grammatical gender and geocentric viewpoints affect language. []

Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered []

Deciphering the Chatter of Monkeys and Chimps []

Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper as first sitcom character with Asperger's syndrome. [|http://www.slate.com/id/2265530/pagenum/all/#p2]

Newsweek article on ambitious women executives in China. Good comparison/contrast: []

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[|Smell of jasmine 'as calming as valium']

William Saletan Memory Doctor Articles from Slate:

Part 1: The Ministry of Truth: A mass experiment in altering political memories. -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2254054/pagenum/all/#p2] Part 2: Removable Truths: A memory expert's inexpungible past. -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2251881/pagenum/all/#p2] Part 3: Leading the Witness: Contaminated memories and criminal injustice. -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2251882/pagenum/all/#p2] Part 4: The Recipe: A cookbook for memories of sexual abuse. -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2251883/pagenum/all/#p2] Part 5: Truth of Consequences? Exploiting psychology in law and advertising. -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2251884/pagenum/all/#p2] Part 6: The Road to Therapy: Finding good uses for mental manipulation. -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2251886/pagenum/all/#p2] Part 7: Training Humans: Better living through memory modification. -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2251887/pagenum/all/#p2] Part 8: The Future of the Past: -- [|http://www.slate.com/id/2251888/pagenum/all/#p2]

[|Are China's language problems due to English or politics?]

Under that burqa, lipstick and high heels: []

[|Can You Force Yourself To Dream? How to optimize your naps for learning.]

[|Nudges Gone Wrong: A program designed to reduce energy consumption persuaded some Republicans to consume more.]: Some Cialdini persuasion stuff in this article.

[|15 Unintentionally Perverted Toys for Children]

Puns for educated minds: []

Hollywood execs rethink plastic surgery, embrace natural looks: []

Top 50 Internet Acronyms Parents Should Know: []

How to understand your kid's text messages: []

Teen sex codes revealed: []

When did unsafe sex stop being scary: []

Banning laptop computers in the classroom: []

The egg market: []

That's what she said: The other half of Tiger Woods's text messages: [|http://www.slate.com/id/2248340/pagenum/all/#p2]

Can you predict marriage happiness in 15 minutes? [|http://www.slate.com/id/2246732/pagenum/all/#p2]

Couples who say we are happier: []

You can text me now: rule for texting etiquette: [|http://www.slate.com/id/2248274/pagenum/all/#p2]

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Fruit bats use oral sex to prolong the deed: []

Teens susceptible to coerced reproduction: []

19 Bizarre home cures that really work:[|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34752900/ns/health-alternative_medicine/?ns=health-alternative_medicine&pg=1#Health_PVN_HomeCures]

Exercise makes your brain brighter: []

Is your junk food habit making you depressed: []

Tiger Woods does not have 11 "Mistresses": []

[|Why Glee's Losers and Mean Girls are so true to life]

Awkward Suggestions: [|Let's Have Fun with the Google Search Box] [|The winner of the Google Suggest contest]: this is the follow up to the previous article

[|Everything you wanted to know about sex] (but didn't learn because you grew up in China)

[|Doc Ellis and the LSD No-No]

Scientology Losing Ground To New Fictionology: []

25 Ridiculously Healthy Foods: []>1=31036

How To Charge Your Laptop: Four essential tips for extending the battery life of your computer, cell phone, and every other gadget. : []

Do Women Really Ask for Raises Less Frequently Than Men? []

There Are No Seven Stages of Grief: []

Emote Control: Why couldn't we tell that the balloon boy's parents were faking their distress? []

Carry on luggage packing tips: []

Omega-3 deficiency may be hurting our hearts: []//

[|The Anatomy of a Web Advertising Scam] : Investigating the people behind those sketchy flat stomach ads:

[|Death a la Carte]: It's not Google that's killing the media

[|Sweet Surrender]: Taxing soda to make you stop drinking it: [] [|Is Big Food as Evil as Big Tobacco]?

What the frak? []

Exam Yuan revising English test for civil servants: []

How To Get an Unbelievable, Amazing, Fantastic, Thrilling Deal on New Glasses: Buy them online: [|http://www.slate.com/id/2198746/pagenum/all/#page_start]

Do You Know Your Brain Foods? []

Nutrition Claims: Fact or Fiction? []

Apples: The Live Longer Fruit []

Internet use 'good for the brain' []

Smart brains 'grow differently' []

Brain signals predict weight gain []

Q&A: Mobile phone safety []

How we dig up distant memories []

Human brain began evolving early []

How memories build during sleep []

Quality sleep 'rescues memories' []

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 * Sage herb 'can boost memory'**

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 * Herbal remedies 'boost brain power'**

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 * Ginseng 'could improve memory'**

Normal ageing 'can addle brain' []

Well, Excuuuuuse Meee! Why humans are so quick to take offense, and what that means for the presidential campaign. [|http://www.slate.com/id/2202303/pagenum/all/#page_start]