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I was under the impression that Amy Chua (the woman who wrote "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother") gave up the "tiger mom" strategy after one of her children had a breakdown: "What b…

This is a great article. The linked article ("Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better?") is also very interesting: "At the 2-year assessment t…

I've had good results with htmldoc ( http://www.msweet.org/projects.php?Z1 ).

This is exactly what I was looking for. I was previously using http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp , but the author is no longer making it available for free.

I have no idea who Barrett Brown is, but I found this interesting profile of him: http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2011/April/How_Barr... It seems like he's an Aaron Swartz…

>failing to take into account that only a tiny fraction of the mortgage payment actually becomes equity. What percentage of a mortgage payment actually gets converted into equity? …

I'm not much of a sucker for inspirational stories, but this is one of the best I've read in a long time.

"Those who know me well in the the developer and tech community recognize that I have always tried to conduct myself in a way that builds bridges for everyone." I couldn't get thro…

>A good start, but shopping around is hard, if not impossible I think shopping around, properly conceived, should be the primary care physician's job. If a doctor is referring e.g.…

I didn't like the article either. The whole thing struck me as melodramatic and narcissistic. Perhaps there are intelligent commentaries to be written about this culture's abuse of…

It's worth noting that there is no relationship between a U.S. hospital bill and the actual cost of the service: http://truecostofhealthcare.org/hospital_billing "Hospitals see no …

Here is an interesting infographic from the National Post: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/28/guns-ownership-aroun... "In 2007, the U.S. had the highest gun ownership rate in …

Yes. I received some counterfeit DVDs many years back and I ended up getting my money back from PayPal.

True, antidepressants are much slower acting than MDMA, but you're still looking at 80-90% of people in antidepressant trials who can correctly guess which group they're in (due to…

From what I understand this 95% figure is not that far off from what is obtained in anti-depressant trials, but somehow the poor blinding of anti-depressant trials is almost never …

Takeaway quote from the article: "If you were to go out and start a meth lab in your house, what's the probability that you would ultimately end up doing jail time? It's going to b…

From what I understand there is only one study on the relationship between creativity and LSD: Psychedelic agents in creative problem-solving: a pilot study. Harman WW, McKim RH, M…

I'm sure sitting on your ass 8-10 hours a day is a health risk. Maybe not as bad as working in a factory breathing in nasty chemicals all day, or dodging falling trees as a lumberj…