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Pickup artists have the best definition for charisma that I think I’ve ever heard: Charisma is the ability to suck other people into your [...]
Nothing to do with human nature, but since my upcoming pop culture and fluff blog AKA the “random, dumb shit” blog is still under construction, I’m gonna have to put this here.
Going to see The Cool Kids tomorrow!!! Can’t wait.
I’d upload some of their music for you to listen to, but I’m lazy tonight so [...]
Two great pieces on the level of unconscious genius that goes into fast-paced athletics.
First is one from the blog The Situationist. It uses baseball players as a specific example.
The other is an older, but related piece from the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell called “The Physical Genius.”
Not much commentary from me on this. Both links [...]
I predict a lot of people will be talking about Fox’s new show Moment of Truth. Yes, it looks like typical Fox tackiness. Yes, it looks controversial, exploitative and possibly in poor taste. But damn if I’m not going to watch every last minute!
As a guy who’s into human nature and the [...]
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Somewhat sad news. Chess champion Bobby Fischer is dead. The story of his life is one of great triumph followed by great tragedy:
Fisher went on to become a bizarre, shadowy figure (hence the irony of the title of the 1993 movie about a child chess prodigy, Searching [...]
