5/21/2023 0 Comments Predictably irrational book![]() The book follows a simple and easy to digest structure with each chapter focusing on a particular facet of irrational human behavior. Each irrationality is explored and evidenced by Ariely through tales of the experiments he carried out during his time as Professor of Behavioural Economics at MIT – experiments which largely involved many unsuspecting yet willing students. After demonstrating each irrational behaviour in action and exploring the reasons why people are prone to act thus, Ariely typically goes on to ponder the implications of these insights for society at large. Often these implications are profound. ![]() ![]() In my defense, as Ariely argues in his book, we’re all prone to procrastination! I may be somewhat of a laggard in coming to the book so late, but “better late than never” as they say. I’m painfully embarrassed to admit that it’s taken me until now to read the behavioural science classic “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely. ![]()
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![]() ![]() That's a lot to deal with for a sheltered fourteen-year-old farm boy. Instead, he allows himself to be pulled deeper and deeper into Diana's world, doing crazy things like breaking into an insane asylum, traveling through waterfalls, confronting a Fourteenth-Century warrior, battling an old hag, and, worst of all, lying to his parents. ![]() Should he have run the other way when Diana showed him the things she can do with her mind and the amulet of crystals around her neck? No one would blame him if he did. ![]() ![]() Should he have told his parents instead of Widow McNeally and two of his sisters? Possibly. Should he have turned Diana over to the authorities instead of sneaking her home and hiding her in the loft of his barn? Maybe. His choices from that moment forward turn his life upside-down. During the ensuing hunt, those blasted boots caused him to break a priceless statue, freeing a girl named Diana, who had been trapped in stone for centuries. He thought he was okay with it all, really! However, something made him trip that bully of a classmate at the museum, making him number one on the goon's hit-list. Even if Father and Mother are strict and detached, at least he has his eleven sisters and Widow McNeally on his side. It's not his fault that his only shoes are work boots, and that his wardrobe consists of overalls and thin T-shirts. John can't help that his last name is Brown or that he is a farmer. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Kenneth anger book![]() The sequel, Babylon II, didn’t do quite as well, but both volumes were underground favorites among those with trashy minds and gutter sensibilities. How wrong! Anger’s outrageous compendium of sex and violence among the hallowed studio stars sold and sold. ![]() Babylon wasn’t published in the US until 1975, considered too seedy for Americans. That one was printed first in France in 1960 with Jayne Mansfield as the bosomy cover girl falling out of her brief blouse. 26 years ago, Anger struck anew in 1984 with this sordid sequel to his original bad-taste, gross-out Hollywood Babylon. It’s a snapshot catching an Elizabeth Taylor so squat, so obese, so darned ugly that even Joan Rivers would have been struck speechless. The photo on the front cover of Kenneth Anger’s book Hollywood Babylon II is, even for shameless paparazzi member Ron Galella, extremely unkind. ![]() Hollywood Babylon II is almost as addictive, seductive, compulsively page-turning as its inglorious Hollywood Babylon predecessor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mitchell was among the employees who started advocating for a Black Barbie in the early ’60s. And she proves game as her niece gently grills her about dolls in general and Mattel specifically. ![]() Mitchell’s memories of the toy company and particularly Ruth Handler (who founded the company with her husband, Harold) are fond. “Black Barbie” offers an impressive cache of newspaper photographs, newsreels and more that augment the repressed record of Black life in the United States. Archival photos of Mitchell as a “spinner” - a person who tested the crank on a Jack in the Box - is just one of the documentary’s many archival photos that delights and instructs. In 1953, Legueria’s aunt Beulah Mae Mitchell made her way from Forth Worth, Texas, to Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.Īt least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger. ![]() But since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. After helping herself to Naomis car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. ![]() There’s a reason Knox doesn’t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasnt changed at all. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. OctoLucy Score Things We Never Got Over, Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone.Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Literature Things We Never Got Over by Martian ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The herons cry tv series![]() Then another body is found-killed in a similar way. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. ![]() What he finds is an elaborately staged murder-Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases.ĭr. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. this character-driven exploration of people's darkest flaws is a sterling example of Cleeves' formidable talents." - Kirkus Reviews ![]() “In Matthew Venn, Ann has created a complex, daring, subtle character.” -Louise Penny ![]() New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves returns with The Heron's Cry, the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call, soon to be a major TV series, alongside her two hit TV shows Shetland and Vera. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Split tooth tanya tagaq![]() ![]() A story of Sedna the Sea Goddess, for example, provides a counterpoint for references to the seismic testing that began in Nunavut in the 1970s. In much the same way, by moving seamlessly between traditional stories and the central narrative, Tagaq effectively frees readers from the shackles of reality. ![]() Tagaq instead foregrounds the inherent timelessness of a place that seasonally cycles between 24-hour day and perpetual night: “Life pops forth brightly and death is a soft exhalation … not so much living and dying as glowing and darkening.” This view of time as cyclical rather than linear is key to the story and is alternately grounding and disorienting. On its most straightforward level, it tells the story of an unnamed adolescent girl growing up in Nunavut in the 1970s, although this time frame is communicated only through subtle clues. To unpack Split Tooth’s labyrinthine structure in a single review is a challenge. Formally identified as fiction, it is in fact a thick braid of lived experience, philosophy, poetry, and traditional knowledge. It’s no surprise, then, that Split Tooth, Tagaq’s literary debut, defies categorization. An Inuk artist from Iqaluktuutiaq, Tagaq’s performances are innovative and face-meltingly intense, and she has collaborated with a wide array of music’s weird geniuses from Björk to the Kronos Quartet. ![]() As a vocalist and composer, Tanya Tagaq cares little for conventional rules of engagement. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the day of her name choosing, the name jar has mysteriously disappeared. But while Unhei practices being a Suzy, Laura, or Amanda, one of her classmates comes to her neighborhood and discovers her real name and its special meaning. Her new classmates are fascinated by this no-name girl and decide to help out by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells the class that she will choose a name by the following week. The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?įrom : Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids won't like her. Grade Level: 3rd (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) Volunteers needed in May! Click here to sign up. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Range book epstein![]() If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. ![]() For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. ![]() During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Live coverage of the event will begin on C-SPAN at 8 p.m., with several other outlets taking portions live on their streaming platforms. JOE BIDEN and KAMALA HARRIS will both be in attendance. The president and the press will take center stage tonight at the WHCA Dinner. ![]() We just might put you on air!īIDEN MEETS THE PRESS - Due to hangoveredness, we are going to keep things simple this morning. tonight on SiriusXM POTUS Channel 124.Īnd if you happen to be joining us at the CBS-POLITICO pre-reception, please stop by Major and Ryan’s radio setup and say hello. Ryan, host and executive producer of Playbook Deep Dive, will be joining CBS’ Major Garrett, host of the The Takeout podcast, for an hour of special interviews from inside the Washington Hilton. TUNE IN - We are teaming up with our friends at CBS News tonight for a live show before the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The White House Correspondents' Association dinner tonight will highlight the festivities of the weekend as official Washington mixes with celebrities to celebrate the First Amendment. ![]() |