Reading List- Money Doesn’t Bring Happiness? A Reconsideration with New DataCross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog. Forty years ago Richard Easterlin proposed the paradox that people in wealthier countries were no happier than those in less wealthy countries. Subsequent research on money and happiness brought modifications and variations, notably that within a single country, while for the poor, more money meant fewer problems, for th […]Jay Livingston, PhD
- CFP Doctoral workshop @webuse on Digital tools to study human behavior in online environmentsCALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DOCTORAL WORKSHOP Developing Best Practices for Using Digital Tools to Study Human Behavior in Online Environments webuse.org/workshop2013/ We invite doctoral students who study human behavior in digital environments, and who are at the beginning stages of … Continue reading →Heather Horst
- Are Smart Phones Emasculating? The Marketing of Google GlassFashion designer Vera Wang is known world-wide for her bridal gowns, costing from thousands of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. She opened her first store — in New York City — in 1990. In 2011, her gowns started appearing at the discount David’s Bridal, for as little as $600. Today she has a line at Kohl’s. Why would someone who can sell a $25,000 […]Lisa Wade, PhD
- Keynote, Some Assembly Required, now on Youtube‘Some Assembly Required’, my keynote at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education is now available on youtube. (If you don’t see me, I’m the second person on the playlist). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K58DOSeQ0N4&feature=share&list=PLL1ugrJCNbcq8v_iIHqh8mCja6YFOuCEeShawn
- Call for Participation: Digital Art and the Urban EnvironmentA Symposium, Art Exhibition, and Scholarly Volume Location: Pace University, Downtown Manhattan, NYC Date: Friday, October 4, 2013 Due Date: All submissions are due by Sunday, July 13, 2012. Pace Digital Gallery Web page: csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/ Sponsors: Pace Digital Gallery, Seidenberg … Continue reading →Heather Horst
- Money Doesn’t Bring Happiness? A Reconsideration with New Data
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- sacred-profane:
Rotor Finerats
sacred-profane: Rotor Finerats
- tytodiem:
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)
tytodiem: ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)
- "those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could..."“those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.” - anna karenina - leo tolstoy (via scribble-scribbles)
- "It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and..."“It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and hold the iPhone itself, which has a weirdly calming effect on people, as though it were an amulet or maybe a small living animal. I am guilty of all the smartphone sins—in essence, staring at the phone when you should be staring at life. It’s possible that th […]
- richiedcruz:
Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base...richiedcruz: Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base I found. Hey, cool. I wrote a paper about expedient knapped glass tools used by lepers in Hawaii.
- carlbeanlarson:
Laundry Characters / Sunset
carlbeanlarson: Laundry Characters / Sunset
- stuckwithpins:
James Ehlers
stuckwithpins: James Ehlers
- John Conway's Log: Palaeontological Illustration, a Tell-All ConfessionJohn Conway's Log: Palaeontological Illustration, a Tell-All Confession: nyctopterus: I got an email a couple of months ago, asking my advice on how to study, and get into palaeontological illustration as a career. My first impulse was to try to seem like a pro, and make up some bullshit. But I reconsidered, and answered honestly. Palaeontological illus […]
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true nomads.
almeh:
Afghan nomads in...solifemaycontinue: true nomads. almeh: Afghan nomads in Pakistan travel back to Afghanistan B.K. Bangash
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- sacred-profane:
Rotor Finerats
A Portrait of the Archaeologist as a Young Woman.
