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Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2295603/pagenum/all/"We hate commuting. It correlates with an increased risk of obesity, divorce, neck pain, stress, worry, and sleeplessness. It makes us eat worse and exercise less. Yet, we keep on doing it. Indeed, average one-way commuting time has steadily crept up over the course of the past five decades, and now sits at 24 minutes (although we routinely under-report the time it really takes us to get to work)...." and from comments: "Land value taxation -- shifting taxes off work and onto land value, which, after all is created by the community, not the landholder -- is the necessary reform if we are ever to solve the sprawl and long commutes problem."
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Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
It's tempting to blame the victim. In May, a twentysomething French hacker broke into several Twitter employees' e-mail accounts and stole a trove of meeting notes, strategy documents, and other confidential scribbles. The hacker eventually gave the stash
http://www.slate.com/id/2223478/?yahoo=y
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It's tempting to blame the victim. In May, a twentysomething French hacker broke into several Twitter employees' e-mail accounts and stole a trove of meeting notes, strategy documents, and other confidential scribbles. The hacker eventually gave the stash
http://www.slate.com/id/2223478/?yahoo=y
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What to do when all else has failed to change your kid's behavior. - By Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella - Slate Magazine
They direct the parents to temporarily back off almost entirely: to stop asking their child to do the desired behavior and say it's OK not to do it at all, stop offering praise or other rewards for doing it, and mask their attitude of engaged enthusiasm or frustrated rage with an appearance of bland disinterest in whether the child does it or not. What happens next, frequently, is that within a day or two the child starts doing the behavior with no prompting from parents or anyone else."
http://www.slate.com/id/2228559/pagenum/all/
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They direct the parents to temporarily back off almost entirely: to stop asking their child to do the desired behavior and say it's OK not to do it at all, stop offering praise or other rewards for doing it, and mask their attitude of engaged enthusiasm or frustrated rage with an appearance of bland disinterest in whether the child does it or not. What happens next, frequently, is that within a day or two the child starts doing the behavior with no prompting from parents or anyone else."
http://www.slate.com/id/2228559/pagenum/all/
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The cast of Seinfeld on Twitter. - By Frank Ferri - Slate Magazine
@twitter: "RT @laura What If There Had Been a Seinfeld Episode About Twitter? - http://tinyurl.com/yky5t3d" (from http://twitter.com/twitter/status/4845506711)
http://www.slate.com/id/2231467/
Tags: seinfeld, twitter, humor, funny, script, culture, socialweb, biz, cast, connections Saved by: admin
@twitter: "RT @laura What If There Had Been a Seinfeld Episode About Twitter? - http://tinyurl.com/yky5t3d" (from http://twitter.com/twitter/status/4845506711)
http://www.slate.com/id/2231467/
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The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. - By Deborah Blum - Slate Magazine
They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s, liked to say, it was "our national experiment in extermination."
http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/pagenum/all/
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They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s, liked to say, it was "our national experiment in extermination."
http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/pagenum/all/
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I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind? (1) - By James Sturm - Slate Magazine
Over the last several years, the Internet has evolved from being a distraction to something that feels more sinister. Even when I am away from the computer I am aware that I AM AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER and am scheming about how to GET BACK ON THE COMPUTER. I've tried various strategies to limit my time online: leaving my laptop at my studio when I go home, leaving it at home when I go to my studio, a Saturday moratorium on usage. But nothing has worked for long. More and more hours of my life evaporate in front of YouTube. Supposedly addiction isn't a moral failing, but it feels as if it is.
http://www.slate.com/id/2249562/entry/2249563/
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Over the last several years, the Internet has evolved from being a distraction to something that feels more sinister. Even when I am away from the computer I am aware that I AM AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER and am scheming about how to GET BACK ON THE COMPUTER. I've tried various strategies to limit my time online: leaving my laptop at my studio when I go home, leaving it at home when I go to my studio, a Saturday moratorium on usage. But nothing has worked for long. More and more hours of my life evaporate in front of YouTube. Supposedly addiction isn't a moral failing, but it feels as if it is.
http://www.slate.com/id/2249562/entry/2249563/
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