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The Meaning of Our Food Preferences
I love reading about food-related psychological studies and this one on how our eating preferences are influenced (by our personal values, the food’s cultural meaning, and its physical appearance) is no exception: How we feel about a sausage […] says more about our personal values than about what the sausage actually tastes like. A large…
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Busy? Movies and Books in a Minute
Don’t have the time to watch that new film or read that classic book? Got a minute? Movie-a-Minute Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles (1941) Orson Welles: Rosebud. (dies) Reporter: What does it mean? Everybody Else: We don’t know. THE END Book-a-Minute The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby: Daisy, I made all this…
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Interview with a Self-Trepanner
Self-trepanation seems the realm of low budget horror films and historic medical literature. However Neurophilosophy has a transcript of an interview with a recent self-trepanner. M: How exactly did you perform the trepanation? HP: I used a hand trepan initially, but that wasn’t proving to be terribly successful. Then there was a problem with the…
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The Smartest (Financial) Advice
When 40 finance greats are asked for the best financial lessons they ever learned, you’re sure to learn something. But who wants to trawl through 40 separate pages to get to all that advice (apart from me)? Stocks build wealth – with no work Don’t follow the herd Do what you love Know where your…
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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
In a different take on the book list ‘genre’, Martin Seymour-Smith’s 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written doesn’t list the books the author believes are ‘best’, but which have been the most influential. The list is ordered chronologically, and there are some novels present. I’ve read an embarrassingly small amount of these.
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Top Intellectuals: A Round-Up
The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, Thinkers 50, and Accenture’s Top 50 Business Intellectuals. Only one person has appeared on all three lists: Kenichi Ohmae. Twenty-four people (including Ohmae) appear on two of the lists. These people are: Bill Gates C. K. Prahalad Charles Handy Chris Argyris Clayton Christensen Edward De Bono Gary Hamel Henry Mintzberg…
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Thinkers 50 – More Influential Thinkers
Thinkers 50 is a biennial poll to find the 50 most influential business and management thinkers in the world. The following factors are used to rank the short-list: Originality of Ideas Practicality of Ideas Presentation Style Written Communication Loyalty of Followers Business Sense International Outlook Rigour of Research Impact of Ideas Guru Factor Since its…
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World’s Best Presentation Contest
In 2007 it was Shift Happens, closely followed by Meet Henry and The Sustainable Food Lab. What will win The World’s Best Presentation Contest of 2008?
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Chinese Dietary ‘Secrets’
As The Independent points out, Chinese food has a bad reputation in the UK. But understood and prepared properly, it is healthy, fulfilling, and one of my favourite types of cuisine. These Chinese dietary ‘secrets’ have rejuvenated my fervour for Eastern cooking. Stop counting calories Think of vegetables as dishes Fill up on staple foods…
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Top 50 Business Intellectuals
A list of the top 50 business intellectuals, as compiled by Accenture in 2002. Initially a list of 300, the top 50 were found using the following rankings: Google hits The LexisNexis media databases to 1997 Citations found in the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index to 1997 The top 5: Michael E.…