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Do you really want to work for someone who thinks getting to the office 5 minutes earlier is more important than your child?

http://www.hypem.com is a great way to stay on top of what's "trendy". Quality can be hit or miss, but it is a great way to stay in the loop.

Nietzsche was co-opted by his sister (who was a proto-National Socialist) and was strongly misinterpreted. In fact, Nietzsche was strongly anti-German nationalism and anti-Anti-Sem…

It may have been smaller, no doubt, but this statement is not correct: But in the 1400s, just being an artist is a huge enough accomplishment that people are going to know who you …

Actually, he wrote this employment letter in 1482, before he made anything of serious artistic importance. He may have been somewhat known in the artistic community, but he was by …

Transcript: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together/transc...

Check out The Structure of Scientific Revolutions for an argument for this in the science world: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_R... In a nutshell: peop…

Also in alternate calendars: Each day in the Republican Calendar was divided into ten hours, each hour into 100 decimal minutes, and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds. T…

If any Poles say otherwise, feel free to correct me, but my impression of Poland's religiosity is largely dependent on the strong role of the Catholic Church in recent historical a…

I'm considering getting a 11" MacBook Air soon. The portability sounds great, as I have an old MacBook Pro 13" now and it's rather heavy. The only concern, of course, is that it's …

Courtesy of James Cunningham and Colin Hayhurst (YC12).