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That This American Life episode was the first thing I thought about when I read this news. I heartily second the recommendation that everybody listen to it. It made me very happy t…

Interesting article about how the desktop OS market has settled itself out over the past decade, and the interesting things are now all happening in the mobile space.

That article was a single thought that could have been expressed in a single sentence drawn out into a whole essay.

The way that life expectancy works is that it was low because so many people died of disease in their youth that it dragged the average down. But people who lived to old age still …

There's a thing called Delayed Sleep Phase Sndrome. It's a circadian rhythm disorder that affects maybe 1/2 of 1% of people (but seems to be more prevalent among engineers and soft…