Stuff to bring up at a dinner party
Roller skating is Black History. It’s important to recognize the huge impact that the Black community has made on roller skating, and how skating very well may not be what it is today without the impact of Black culture.
In honor of Black History Month, we want to shout out @blackdiasporaderby and our league members skating with them!... See more
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“Because people leant forward in their seats or on their couches or bar stools when he got the ball and the fast break began, because they might see something they had never seen before, which is exactly why we love basketball, and exactly the feeling you have when you have those little rippling epiphanies here and there about the nature of creatio
... See moreA Book of Uncommon Prayer by Brian Doyle — and also a nice insight on why we love sports.
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreCognitive load is like playing an iterated game of diminishing returns. Every choice—every click, every scroll—saps a little more of your mental energy. By the time you’re 20 decisions deep, your ability to make intentional choices is shot. It’s not that you’ve lost the game; you’ve been worn down by it.
In behavioral economics, this is known as dec... See more
In behavioral economics, this is known as dec... See more
The Sociology of Business, Ana Andjelic
When cars became more fuel-efficient, we didn’t save on fuel – we just made cars bigger and drove more. This phenomenon is called the ‘Jevons Paradox’, named after economist William Stanley Jevons who observed in 1865 that more efficient coal use led to more consumption, not less.
When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
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‘music paralysis’, or when and why our music tastes stagnate as we get older.