Monthly Archives: February 2017

Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math | Open Culture

Posted on 2017-02-28 by Dave

Should we teach philosophy to children? You’d have a hard time, I imagine, convincing many readers of this site that we shouldn’t. But why? Source: Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at … Continue reading →

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Hearing Aids

Posted on 2017-02-22 by Dave

Hearing Aid Forums is offline, bummer. Seems to be quite a bit of info here though. Source: Hearing Aids Knowledge Base

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iHear Medical – hearing aids you can adjust at home

Posted on 2017-02-22 by Dave

Know idea if these are any good but $600 for a pair plus a $99 “test kit” (and $49 software or is that in the kit?) is still under half the price of the ones I got from Costco. I’m … Continue reading →

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50 Things You Can Control Right Now

Posted on 2017-02-15 by Dave

You can expel all your energy on things you can’t control or use it to create positive change in your life. Here are 50 ways to start right now. Source: 50 Things You Can Control Right Now

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Playing with syntax highlighter

Posted on 2017-02-13 by Dave

some text here int Gi1/0/1  switchport access vlan 5000 desc Bob’s your uncle some more text down here Hey look, it’s a plugin for making code and config snippets pretty.

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Get Rich Slowly

Posted on 2017-02-10 by Dave

Get Rich Slowly   Interesting.  Wordpress inserted previews for other links but not this one.  I wonder what the difference is.

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The “News”

Posted on 2017-02-10 by Dave

I would agree with most of this but I wouldn’t say to ignore the news completely, rather take in a broad but shallow stream.  Lots of sources but all you really want is the headlines to give you a general … Continue reading →

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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself

Posted on 2017-02-10 by Dave

I’m currently reading The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt where he uses the metaphor of  the elephant and the rider.  The elephant is instinct, the rider is consciousness.  He talks a lot in the early section about how the rider often spends it’s time … Continue reading →

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