Excerpt from 'When Organizing Isn't Enough SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life' (USA Today)
When Organizing Isn't Enough
Your brain lies to you (International Herald Tribune)
We tend to remember news that accords with our worldview, and discount statements that contradict it.
A mathemagician at 76 (HT via Yahoo! India News)
What is the result of 39122 multiplied by 97531 or 24681 minus 13579? While most of would reach for our calculators to do the sums or even a PC (as the average handheld calculator lacks adequate space to display the result), 76-year-old L.S. Doshi has no such problem.
Johnjoe McFadden: Survival of the wisest (Guardian Unlimited)
Johnjoe McFadden: It is 150 years since Darwin expounded the theory that illuminates our world to this day
PC Review: Dracula: Origin (Blogcritics.org)
How good could a teen rated Dracula game be? It's not just good, it's great! Another great, affordable title from Dreamcatcher that taps Bram Stokers famous literary characters Professor Van Helsing (the main protagonist), Mina and, of course, Dracula. The developers also added several other characters along with some great settings that range from London and Vienna, to Cairo and (cue the …
A Few Words About Sudoku, Which Has None (New York Times)
As humans we seem to have an innate desire to fill up empty spaces. This might explain part of the appeal of sudoku, the new international craze.
Letters to Sunday Datebook (San Francisco Chronicle)
Clay Aiken fans applaud story Editor - Aidin Vaziri's interview with Clay Aiken was great! It's about time that a reporter asked him some interesting and thought-provoking questions. Jean Anzalone Aiken, S.C. Editor - Thanks for the Clay Aiken interview. I…
Investment a likely hotbed in FTA talk (The Australian)
CANBERRA'S decision — or non-decision — about Sinosteel's move on Murchison came as less of a surprise within China than it did in Australia.
Senior Calendar (The Beacon News)
AARP Safe Driving: Two-day series, noon to 4 p.m. today and Thursday at Delnor Health and Wellness Center, 296 Randall Road, Geneva. Registration required. $10 fee payable to AARP at first class. (630) 208-3999. www.delnor.com.
Attack on cops puzzles police (Windsor Star)
Police say they have no idea why a Windsor man rammed his vehicle into a police cruiser early Thursday morning and then tried to attack officers with a baseball bat.