This is from my recent reading of the book Elsewhere USA. In the book it describes that similar to the African areas of Mali and Malawi, America also practices a form of polygamy. All thanks to the laws of economics and biology.
A the book describes, one of the best predictors of polygamy in a society [...]
A few months ago i read the book Elsewhere USA at danah boyd’s suggestion. It didn’t disappoint. While it wasn’t as good as last year’s Generation Me (which i couldn’t stop blogging about), it did have some good insights.
The point of the book is the strange paradox that is occuring in America. People used to [...]
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I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists. I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together.
The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, [...]
I just read a great article by Clive Thompson called “Head for Detail” about Gordon Bell’s latest experieement. Please just read the first 2 paragraphs. It’s about Gordon and how he is recording everything he’s doing (video, audio, emails, web, everything). He’s been doing it for the past 14 years and is able to bring [...]
In the same NY Times article i just wrote about, there’s a great section the “hard-wired upper limit on the number of people he or she can personally know at one time” and compares that number between humans and apes. It reads:
In 1998, the anthropologist Robin Dunbar argued that each human has a hard-wired upper [...]
I read a good article in the NY Time this week called Too Close for Comfort, and got to thinking more about how society treats marriage these days.
The article begins with stats from latest census bureau surveys which show that married-couple households are now a minority. The typical reaction to this was: What is [...]
While reading Fred Wilson’s blog today about Live Blogging, he ended his post with this comment:
Blogging has a reputation as an ego centric activity for people who want to be heard. And that is certainly true and a big motivation for many people who do it. But blogging can be valuable in many other ways.
I [...]
I just finished reading a fascinating book called Generation Me. It’s a non-fiction book about the youngest generation. The book dives into all aspects of this generation. It’s major parts are worth repeating:
Generation Me doesn’t need you approval. They don’t care what anyone thinks. For them social rules are out the window. [...]
I read this passage on the plane this morning and it got me thinking…
When You Are Old
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How [...]
This was first seen in Craigslist about a girl looking for a guy and an appropriate response by a guy. It was re-run in the local newspaper:
