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it's the weekend after thanksgiving, which means it's the official start of the "get-evan-prepped-for-christmas" season. you laugh, but i have found that after 30+ years of christmases (christmi? christmasuses?) i have developed a pre-christmas routine that boarders on obsessive.
first, we have the music. i'm currently sitting on 600+ christmas songs (from 30+ christmas albums) which means i can listen non-stop for about a day and a half without repeating the same version of a song. my itunes currently features 18 versions of silent night (my favorite is a classical russian folk recording) and if you ever want to have a conversation about the definitive recording of "o holy night" then i am your man (my vote is for the new orleans benefit version featured on studio 60 last year).
but mostly, we have the movies. and television. and cartoons. it all started about a decade ago when i noticed that the more christmas "stuff" i watched, the more likely i was to have a good christmas. this has now officially spiraled out of control, and has resulted in me watching about 20 dvds worth of goodies each holiday during November and December. actually, i have taken to throwing a "christmas cartoon extravaganza" each year to help spread the love (or share the burden, as it were).
my checklist for this year has 50+ items on it. while i certainly won't get through more than about half of what you see here, i've documented the whole list so i don't have to keep recreating it every year. if by some strange miracle i have forgotten something worth seeing, please mock my omission in the comments.
this selction include christmas cartoons (rankin-bass!) and several live action specials including various muppets. also included are television show episodes worth re-watching during the holidays, especially aaron sorkin productions (who has a knack for christmas that i wish he could spin into the other 364 days of his work each year).
some are good (miracle on 34th), some are bad (santa conquers the martians) but anything is fair game (die hard) if it happens at christmas.
again, if i have forgotten something worth seeing, please share.
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the championship match of major league soccer returned to D.C.'s RFK Stadium again this year. unfortunately, after having the best record during the regular season, D.C. United flamed out in the first round of the playoffs and blew the chance to play for the cup on their home turf.
instead, we watched the lady sparkler's hometown team (the houston dynamo) hand the new england revolution (employer of the twit mentioned above) their fourth cup defeat in the last six years. you can guess our allegiances (have i mentioned he's a twit?) and i can safely say that we were in a small, small minority of people cheering for houston as they sent the revolution to the bad side of the record books.
now, not everybody cares about fútbol/soccer, but focus for a moment on the futility factor here: 4 championship appearances, no wins. only two professional teams share this dubious honor (the buffalo bills and the minnesota vikings, both of the NFL, both 0-4 in the superbowl). hockey has only one team that comes close (st. louis blues, 0-3) and basketball/baseball can only muster a few 0-2 teams (utah jazz, phoenix suns, new jersey nets, san diego padres).
back to the twit. i'm normally not one to shower the hate on people, but it's even worse that i can't figure out why i loathe him so. part of it could his gawd awful kick medic commercials i have to watch every weekend on fox soccer channel. part of it could be that no matter how good he is for his club (83 goals in 145 appearances, or 57%) he is equally bad for his country (6 goals in 28 appearances, or 21%). or it could just be because he wears his shirts two sizes too small.
regardless, houston won their second straight (the only team other than D.C. to do that) and twinkle-toed twellman and the revs lost … all is right with the world.
MLS Cup 2007, Washington, D.C.
I have thoughts and opinions. I need to be able to express them on your blog.
Frankly, I had comments turned off because I assumed that no one actually read my ramblings, or cared to comment if they did. However, after about 15 minutes of hard labour, you, the adoring public, can now comment to your hearts content.
so, the Washingtonian magazine is doing a "green" edition of their magazine this January, and have been looking to talk to a bride and groom about their "green" wedding.
a friend of mine is the director of media relations here at the conservancy, and he suggested that the reporter talk to me. to make a long story short, the call is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10am.
needless to say this, quite rightly, got me to thinking about whether our wedding was actually "green" or not. and by "thinking", i mean "obsessing". i'm pleased to report that, after about 24 hours of concerted panicking, i am pretty certain we actually didn't do a half bad job putting together something that closely resembles a green wedding (which is a bold statement considering how caveat-laden i usually am).
my first concern was the defining the term "green wedding". we didn't really start off trying to be "green" so much as we were trying to be thoughtful about reducing our wedding's drain on ourselves and those around us. obviously, this meant we were looking for simple things we could do that would reduce our wedding's strain on the planet as well. my second concern was that, in my head, the term "green wedding" was essentially synonymous with "hemp wedding dress" which i knew wasn't going to fly (i didn't even ask).
in an odd stroke of coincidence, the month after the lady sparkler and i got engaged, the conservancy posted something about the simple things you can do to have a green wedding. reading this yeilded my first thoughts that a "green" wedding might be possible (or, more important, practical).
central: we threw the wedding in downtown d.c. which — besides being home for us and most of our friends — was also decidedly central for most of our families (who hailed from Oregon, Texas, Virginia, and New England).
walkable: the whole weekend happened within four blocks of the church, including the hotel, the bachelor party, the rehearsal dinner, the reception and the after-party. once people arrived, they could opt out of transportation for the rest of the weekend.
virtual: besides trying to reduce the amount of paper we used in our invitations (limited inserts, no inner envelope), we saved a few trees by doing an email save-the-date and by using a wedding blog to keep people updated about the weekend details.
eco-honeymoon: while the first half of our trip was at a resort with locally-grown/organic-friendly food, the second half of our trip was more legitimately eco-friendly at one of Belize's oldest eco-lodges. we wanted to be sensitive, but we weren't willing to honeymoon in a tent in our backyard.
the hemp dress: while our tuxes were rented (it's best to share tux resources with hundreds of other grooms and groomsmen) and the bridesmaids picked out their own dresses (this increases the chance they might be worn again, however slightly) we didn't even consider going down the path of the organic wedding dress. there was just too much wrapped up in our (er, her) vision of the perfect dress to add this layer of complexity.
the rings: the lady sparkler got a diamond (and loves it however guiltily), and i got a gold ring (silver is less toxic for the environment). neither of them were used or recycled. we had a devil of a time trying to offset the rings (we tried, but couldn't find anyone who would even approximate what would be required) so this one is destined to remain an open issue.
the cake: we tried so hard to use local merchants, but every cake place we tried within the district didn't pass our admittedly lofty standards (yes, including Cake Love which was dry and over-hyped). so we ended up using a place in (God-forbid) Herndon. not two months after we "sold out to the 'burbs", we found an equally fantastic bakery in DC's Mount Pleasant neighborhood, and we will be definitely using them for all our baking needs in the future.
… but all of this, to some extent, misses the point. we were looking for simple ways to reduce our footprint, and (to be honest) we as a society just might be a couple years away from "eco-wedding dresses" and "environmentally sensitive engagement rings" being an option for mainstream-ers like us. that, and we just had bad timing with the bakery.
not that i am EVER going to have another wedding (ever, EVER!) but i'm happy to leave those three items open for future, er, motivation.
Outdoors | Hiking · Photography · Washington D.C.
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the lady sparkler and i set out at about 1 pm for the great western woods, but after 30 blocks of remarkably abysmal traffic, we were still in D.C. at 2:30 pm. so, we regrouped and walked around roosevelt island, a national park in the potomac between rosslyn and georgetown.
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, D.C.
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I went down to Georgia on Monday and Tuesday, for a donor metrics conference hosted by the American Cancer Society. I was on the ground for less than 36 hours, so didn't have much time to get out … but I walked around Centennial Olympic Park for a few minutes Monday evening.
It was quite lovely, but I can see why there was so much criticism about the 1996 Altanta Olympics for being so horrifically commercial. Everything in the park — and I mean everything — had a corporate sponsor on it: bricks, plaques, buildings, statues, etc. I can't imagine what it would have been like when lined with 100s of booths representing a patheon of corporations preying on the American consumer culture.
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We completely missed peak foliage this year, because of the whole wedding/honeymoon thing … so on our first real weekend back, we headed out in search of what was left of the leafs to peep.
The only people who seemed to have a clue about what was going on was The Weather Channel, which has a forecast map showing the state of the foliage on the ground. This turned out to be the most correct, largely because it said that vast majority of the country is, in fact, "past peak".
In search of what was left, we drove out to Elk Neck State Park in Maryland, which is situated right on the northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay. The drive in had some widespread (but muted) foliage, but there wasn't anything — and I mean anything — once we go into the park itself. From there, we headed 20 miles west of Baltimore to Morgan Run Natural Environment Area. While the drive in wasn't as pretty as in the far northeast of the state, the hiking was great.
From all reports, this just isn't going to be a good year for foliage. I found a great write-up on what makes for good foliage, and we just didn't have the wet growing season and dry, sunny fall needed for anything other than muted, muddy leaf peeping.


Zambia under-23 striker Fashion Sakala says they are delighted to have accomplished their first leg of their mission in Malawi following Wednesday's away victory over their hosts in a 2019 U23 AFCON second round first leg qualifier.
Zambia kicked off their 2019 U23 AFCON qualifying race with a 1-0 away win over Malawi in Blantyre.
Sakala scored the game's lone goal in the 78th minute to hand Zambia the advantage heading into the last leg on March 24 in Lusaka.
"It is a very important goal and I am proud of the team. We really worked hard, we fought hard, it was a very tough game in Malawi but we did what we had planned and it was successful for us," Sakala said.
Zambia, who entered the competition this month after enjoying a first round bye, need a draw this Sunday at National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka to advance tothe final qualifying round in June.
Winner over both legs will play Burundi or Congo-Brazzaville in June for a spot at this November's finals in Egypt.
Burundi and Congo drew 0-0 in their first leg match in Bujumbura on Wednesday.
The top three finishers in Egypt will represent Africa at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.


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Narcissus obsoletus es una especie de planta perenne perteneciente a  la familia de las Amarilidáceas. Es originaria de la región del Mediterráneo occidental.

Taxonomía
Narcissus obsoletus fue descrita por (Haw.) Spach y publicado en Histoire Naturelle des Végétaux. Phanérogames 12: 452, en el año 1846.
Etimología
Narcissus nombre genérico que hace referencia  del joven narcisista de la mitología griega Νάρκισσος (Narkissos) hijo del dios río Cephissus y de la ninfa Leiriope; que se distinguía por su belleza.

El nombre deriva de la palabra griega: ναρκὰο, narkào (= narcótico) y se refiere al olor penetrante y embriagante de las flores de algunas especies (algunos sostienen que la palabra deriva de la palabra persa نرگس y que se pronuncia Nargis, que indica que esta planta es embriagadora).

obsoletus: epíteto latino
Sinonimia
Hermione aequilimba Herb.
Hermione deficiens (Herb.) Kunth
Hermione obsoleta Haw.
Narcissus aequilimbus (Herb.) Nyman
Narcissus autumnalis subsp. obsoletus (Haw.) K.Richt.
Narcissus cupanianus Grech
Narcissus deficiens Herb.
Narcissus elegans var. obsoletus (Haw.) Burb.
Narcissus miniatus Donn.-Morg., Koop. & Zonn.
Narcissus spiralis Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

obsoletus
Flora de la península ibérica
Plantas bulbosas

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Comments: What Elvis book would be complete without Richard Nixon? He makes an appearance in this newer testament, as Caesar. The cast of characters also includes Gladys Presley as The Blessed Virgin, Frank Sinatra as King Herod and Sid Vicious as The Man Possessed With Devils. Instead of loaves and fishes, Elvis feeds the multitude with peanut butter 'n' 'nana sandwiches. Lazarus isn't raised from the dead; Gladys is. Instead of walking on water, Elvis and Jesus go surfin'. And golfing. And there's something on almost every page guaranteed to offend someone; Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson appear as The Pharisees, Ronald Reagan as Blind Bartimaeus, Andy Griffith as The Centurion and J. Edgar Hoover as Aunt Bea. Does Jesus actually bless homosexuality in Matthew 19? Is Michael Jordan the Antichrist? Ever wonder what God's first name is? Then The Gospel of Elvis is for you.


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We started the weekend off with two winners at Nottingham on Friday evening. Magnificus is a dog who has gone from strength to strength since arriving at our kennel. On Friday he was winning for the ninth time this year so far , that total consists of a not too shabby 5 x A1s , 3 x A2s and a maiden open victory to top it off. He's a real professional dog and a pleasure to have in the kennel. Our second winner on the night was homebred Salacres Freddy. I've mentioned before how difficult this dog was to rear from a very early stage and though a much better eater now , it is still a daily challenge to keep him in peak condition for racing. His record of 5 wins from 20 starts is something we're all proud of. This was Freddys second win in A4.
On Saturday we were to be represented on either side of the Irish sea. Mark headed off to Dublin with Salacres Francie and though he could only finish in fifth place it was a privilege for the kennel to be represented on Boylesports Irish Derby Final night. We were pleased to support Shelbourne Park , Boylesports and everybody connected with Irish greyhound racing on such a special night. I hope in future years we can see many more British runners heading over. The Irish support our Derby greatly and it would be great to see the support returned. Back at home track Nottingham we landed a double. Roman Blueboy was racing for the first time since June and returned a fresh dog as he scored in A6. Salacres Foxy again won in A2 and he looks to be staying stronger with every passing race as he recorded a personal best of 3047 calculated. Foxy has a record of 9 wins from 28 starts. Not bad for a young dog who doesn't reach 2yo for another few weeks.
Just 3 runners at Notts on Monday night so a return of 1 winner , a second and a third wasn't too bad. Savana Ophelia popped out well and after taking an early lead she maintained a decent enough gallop and with trouble in behind stayed on well to take her A4. Salacres Colin took second in his A5 whilst Kingdom finished fourth after a slow start in her sprint open.
Tuesdays BAGS meeting saw us represented by just eight runners so a return of 4 winners and a neck second was very pleasing indeed. Oscars Turbo isn't the easiest dog to win with by any means so it was pleasing to see him follow up last weeks win in A7 with a good come from behind victory in A6. Hopefully he can keep on improving. Next up was Salacres Times who put her early pace to very good use as she soon took command of her A3 race , coming back to the field slightly late on but the result never really looked in any doubt. Aglish Champ finished runner up , beaten just a neck in A5 with a strong late finish. Our third winner wasn't too long in arriving though. Salacres Oak came through with a very strong late run to win his A3. He's a dog who goes well fresh and took his chance well at a very generous 8/1. Salacres Large completed the four timer. He was winning in A5 for the second week running and took his chance well.
Thanks as ever for taking the time to read the blog.
Salacres Francie is heading back to Shelbourne this coming weeked. He is due to take part in the 600yrd race on Irish Derby Final night. As with all Derby night races it won't be easy but we're all proud to have a representative on such a big night.


Key Words: Bodenheimer's constancy, Forest, Ground-dwelling, Leaf-dwelling, Schismatoglottis sp.
J. Bio. Env. Sci. 8(5), 36-44, May 2016.
Most spider groups use plants and ground as their microhabitats. In this study, microhabitats of pholcid spiders were investigated in Marilog and Mount Hamiguitan Wildlife Sanctuary in Davao, Philippines to determine the microhabitat utilization of leaf-dwelling and forest ground-dwelling pholcids. Based on quantitative analysis, pholcid spiders were documented mostly on plants. Vegetation-dwelling pholcids were recorded in 134 plants belonging to nine different plant species of monocotyledonous plants and various species of dicotyledonous plants. Based on Bodenheimer's Constancy, highest constancy was recorded for Schismatoglottis sp. (C= 39.55%) which means that Schismatoglottis sp. is used as an accessory form of microhabitat. In addition, results of the Chi-Square test showed that both Schismatoglottis sp. (X2 > 213.26; p-value < 0.001) and dicot seedlings (X2 > 85.4; p-value < 0.001) were both utilized by these spiders. Results suggest that leaf size and structural leaf complexity are not considered as important factors that dictate the microhabitat choice of leaf-dwelling pholcids.


Downton Abbey star Kevin Doyle returned to his former college to deliver an acting master class to current students. Kevin, who graduated from John Leggott College in 1979 returns to the college every year to support students studying drama, this year going into a session to support students embarking on auditions.
"This place is really important to me and it did change my life," says Kevin "it steered me in a direction that I didn't think was possible. It was because of the teachers who donated their out of hours' time and they were just such a massive support.
Curriculum Leader Kelly Rinaldi "Kevin Doyle has been coming into JLC for the last 10 years to support our aspiring actors with their audition monologues. Kevin actually got in touch with me to offer his support to our learners as a way of giving something back to JLC and the Drama department specifically, as they helped Kevin see his talent as a performer and supported him with his Drama School application.
Kevin continues "I was brought up here and my dad went to Kirton Lindsey as he was in the army. So we moved down here from Newcastle and I stayed here until I left John Leggott College.


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Champions Tennis League is a privately owned tennis league, owned and operated by Second Serve Pvt. Ltd. Fronted by Indian tennis legend and global ambassador of the sport Vijay Amritraj, CTL is the only professional tennis league in India where team captains are grand slam champions and the players are amongst the best in the world. CTL holds the promise of taking tennis in India to new levels. This first edition of Champions Tennis League was scheduled to be played from 17 to 26 November 2014.
There are total 6 teams from 6 different cities with 4 players in each team. These teams were divided into 2 zones.
First three teams were in North Zone and the latter three teams were in South Zone.
The opening match was in R.K. Khanna Tennis Complex, New Delhi. It was my 1st experience to watch a tennis game that too from the tennis court not from stands. I could feel that Dilli ki Sardi before the match started. But as both the teams entered the court, the whole environment heated up.
I think i was neutral supporter there. I was supporting Delhi as it is always my native place and I was supporting Punjab as my favorite Leander Paes and Garbiñe Muguruza were there.
Best part of the game was Mixed Doubles.
Leander Paes and Garbiñe Muguruza of Punjab Marshalls teamed up against Kevin Anderson and Jelena Jankovic of Delhi Dreams. Though Delhi Dreams were already on lead. But this game was all in Marshalls' favour. And they won Mixed Doubles with 6-3.
At one stage Delhi were leading by a small margin of one game, leading the tie 19-18. But in 5th and final match Kevin Anderson won his side the tie easily. Delhi Dreams didn't disappoint the home crowd and won the inaugural Champions Tennis League (CTL) match, winning all the singles matches for a 25-19 victory over Punjab Marshalls.
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Isaac Mophathlane joins Crossfin board
BCX founder Isaac Mophatlane has joined the Crossfin board as director.
He joins executive directors Dean Sparrow and Anton Gaylard, co-founders of Crossfin, as well as non-executive directors Neil Michelson of Capital Eye, Matthew Blewett (former BCX chief operating officer) and Craig Coombe, both of whom are from Crossfin's co-investment partner Multiply Group.
Crossfin CEO Dean Sparrow says Mophatlane will play a key role over the next year as the fintech group aims to aggressively grow its positioning on the African continent with an eye on a future listing.
"Isaac has a depth of experience in building a business up from a small company to a large listed entity with operations across multiple countries, both in Africa and abroad," he says. "His extended network in the ICT, financial services, and retail industries in a number of African countries is hugely relevant to Crossfin, and will support our organic and acquisition-led growth strategy over the coming months."
Mophatlane co-founded ICT services company BCX and grew it to a major business, employing more than 7 000 people and generating revenues of R7-billion. In 2016 he sold BCX to Telkom, creating the largest ICT services business on the African continent, but stepped down a year later.
Commenting on his Crossfin appointment, Mophatlane says: "We are living in such exciting times with the pervasive impact of technology in all parts of our economy and society. This is especially apparent in financial services, a key enabler for any emerging economy.
"I am inspired by what South African fintech companies are doing in this sector and privileged to take up a leadership role in one of South Africa's leading and most innovative fintech groups."
Crossfin has completed several deals in its first year, initially acquiring the South African subsidiary of global corporate services company Edenred through its portfolio company Innervation in July before creating a new IT services powerhouse with the merger of portfolio company Alacrity and IT services company Saratoga.
The Crossfin group owns stakes in several companies in the fintech industry including Innervation, WiGroup, Emerge Mobile (including iKhokha), Alacrity and Blue Garnet. Capital Eye Investments and Durban-based investment firm Multiply Group are co-investors in the group.

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Sheena Iyengar
S. T. Lee Professor of Business
Management Division
Decisionmaking & Negotiations Faculty
Competitive Strategy Affiliated Faculty
Decision Making & Negotiations
322 Kravis
Sheena S. Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School, and a world expert on choice and decision-making. Her book The Art of Choosing received the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2010 award, and was ranked #3 on the Amazon.com Best Business and Investing Books of 2010. Her research is regularly cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist as well as in popular books, such as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Aziz Ansari's Modern Romance. Dr. Iyengar has also appeared on television, including the Today Show, the Daily Show, and Fareed Zakaria's GPS on CNN. Her TED Talks have collectively received almost four million views and her research continues to inform markets, businesses, and individuals around the world.
Growing up in New York City as a blind Indian American and the daughter of immigrants, Dr. Iyengar began to look at the choices she and others had, and how to get the most from choice. She first started researching choice as an undergrad at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated with a B.S. in Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University where her dissertation, "Choice and its Discontents," received the Best Dissertation Award. Dr. Iyengar received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2002, and in 2011 and 2019, she was named a member of the Thinkers50, a global ranking of the top 50 management thinkers. She won the Dean's Award for Outstanding Core Teaching from Columbia Business School in 2012 and was named one of the World's Best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants. She has also given keynotes, and consulted for companies as wide ranging as Deloitte, Google, Bloomberg, Blizzard Entertainment, J.P. Morgan & Chase, and The North Face.
In a groundbreaking, new course called "Think Bigger," Dr. Iyengar created a six-step method for teaching people how to take advantage of lessons learned from neurological and cognitive science to put our minds to work when generating our best ideas. Her new book Think Bigger will be released in 2022. She also teaches another course, the Innovation Salon, a forum comprised of students, alumni, faculty, and Innovation Fellows which seeks to not only understand the issues facing industry today, but how to address those issues with innovation.
BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1992; BS, University of Pennsylvania, 1992; PhD, Stanford, 1997
Joined CBS
Bertini, Marco, Luc Wathieu, and Sheena Iyengar
. "The Discriminating Consumer: Product Proliferation and Willingness to Pay for Quality."
Journal of Marketing Research
, (January 01, 2012):
Mogilner, Cassie, Baba Shiv, and Sheena Iyengar
. "Eternal Quest for the Best: Sequential (vs. Simultaneous) Option Presentation Undermines Choice Commitment."
Journal of Consumer Research
Chua, Roy and Sheena Iyengar
. "Perceiving Freedom Givers: Effects of Granting Decision Latitude on Personality and Leadership Perceptions."
Leadership Quarterly
, (October 01, 2011):
Iyengar, Sheena
. "Lead by Choice."
Leadership Excellence
, (November 01, 2010):
Leotti, Lauren, Sheena Iyengar, and Kevin Ochsner
. "Born to Choose: The Origins and Value of the Need for Control."
Trends in Cognitive Science
Iyengar, Sheena and Emir Kamenica
. "Choice Proliferation, Simplicity Seeking, and Asset Allocation."
Journal of Public Economics
, (August 01, 2010):
Heitmann, Mark, Andreas Herrmann, and Sheena Iyengar
. "Order in Product Customization Decisions: Evidence from Field Experiments."
, (April 01, 2010):
DeVoe, Sanford and Sheena Iyengar
. "Medium of Exchange Matters: What's Fair for Goods is Unfair for Money."
, (February 01, 2010):
Botti, Simona, Kristina Orfali, and Sheena Iyengar
. "Tragic Choices: Autonomy and Emotional Responses to Medical Decisions."
Mogilner, Cassie, Tamar Rudnick, and Sheena Iyengar
. "The Mere Categorization Effect: How the Presence of Categories Increases Choosers' Perceptions of Assortment Variety and Outcome Satisfaction."
Chua, Yong Joo Roy and Sheena Iyengar
. "Creativity as a Matter of Choice: Prior Experience and Task Instruction as Boundary Conditions for the Positive Effect of Choice on Creativity."
Journal of Creative Behavior
Iyengar, Sheena, Emir Kamenica, and Itamar Simonson
. "Racial Preferences in Dating: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment."
Review of Economic Studies
Pohlmann, Claudia, Erica Carranza, Bettina Hannover, and Sheena Iyengar
. "Repercussions of Self-Construal for Self-Relevant and Other-Relevant Choice."
Huberman, Gur, Sheena Iyengar, and Wei Jiang
. "Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Determinants of Participation and Contribution Rates."
Journal of Financial Services Research
. "Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment."
Quarterly Journal of Economics
, (May 01, 2006):
Iyengar, Sheena, Rachael E. Wells, and Barry Schwartz
. "Doing Better But Feeling Worse: Looking for the 'Best' Job Undermines Satisfaction."
Botti, Simona and Sheena Iyengar
. "The Dark Side of Choice: When Choice Impairs Social Welfare."
Journal of Public Policy and Marketing
. "Empowerment through Choice? A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Choice in Organizations."
Research in Organizational Behavior
Ames, Daniel and Sheena Iyengar
. "Appraising the Unusual: Framing Effects and Moderators of Uniqueness-Seeking and Social Projection."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Wells, Rachael E. and Sheena Iyengar
. "Positive Illusions of Preference Consistency: When Remaining Eluded by One's Preferences Yields Greater Subjective Well-Being and Decision Outcomes."
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Lepper, Mark R., Jennifer Henderlong Corpus, and Sheena Iyengar
. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations in the Classroom: Developmental Trends and Academic Correlates."
Journal of Educational Psychology
. "The Psychological Pleasure and Pain of Choosing: When People Prefer Choosing at the Cost of Subsequent Well-Being."
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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. "Interpreting the Other Person's Behavior in the Heat of Conflict: Negative Trait Attributions Affect Dispute Resolution Procedure Preferences and Account for Situational and Cultural Differences."
Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Morris, Michael, Angela Ka-yee Leung, and Sheena Iyengar
. "Person Perception in the Heat of Conflict: Negative Trait Attributions Affect Procedural Preferences and Account for Situational and Cultural Differences."
. "Managers' Theories of Subordinates: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Manager Perceptions of Motivation and Appraisal of Performance."
Hernandez, Miriam and Sheena Iyengar
. "What Drives Whom? A Cultural Perspective on Human Agency."
, (July 01, 2001):
Iyengar, Sheena and Mark R. Lepper
. "When Choice Is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing?"
, (December 01, 2000):
. "Rethinking the Value of Choice: A Cultural Perspective on Intrinsic Motivation."
, (March 01, 1999):
Iyengar, Sheena and S. Nolen-Hoeksema
. "Gender Differences in Internal and External Focusing Among Adolescents."
Sex Roles
Iyengar, Sheena and Martin Seligman
. "The Hope of Fundamentalists."
. "Optimism and Fundamentalism."
Bergemann, Patrick, Zachary Heinemann, Modupe Akinola, Sheena Iyengar, and Adam Galinsky
. Diversity by Design: The Role of Contact and Homophily in Determining Persistent Friendships. January 01, 2025.
Bailey, Erica and Sheena Iyengar
. Authentic Self-Expression on Social Media Is Associated with Greater Subjective Well-Being. January 01, 2019.
Wang, Dan, Jackson Lu, and Sheena Iyengar
. How Social Ties Bias Group Decisions: Results from Laboratory and Field Experiments on Abstract Art and Wine. January 01, 2019.
Kuwabara, Ko, Claudius Hildebrand, Sheena Iyengar, and Xi Zou
. Lay Theories of Networking Ability: Beliefs that Inhibit Engagement in Networking. January 01, 2019.
Horton, Carl, Erica Bailey, and Sheena Iyengar
. Taking the True Self out of Authenticity: A New Measure of Felt Authenticity. January 01, 2019.
Horton, Carl, Aharon Levy, and Sheena Iyengar
. The Artistic Value of a Human in the Age of the AI. January 01, 2019.
Horton, Carl and Sheena Iyengar
. The Simple Benefits of Saying Your Name in Pitch. January 01, 2019.
Heinemann, Zachary, Modupe Akinola, Sheena Iyengar, and Adam Galinsky
Ingram, Paul, Yoonjin Choi, Carl Horton, and Sheena Iyengar
. The Authenticity Challenge: How a Value Affirmation Exercise Can Engender Authentic Leadership. January 01, 2019.
Lu, Jackson, Alexandra Suppes, Carl Horton, and Sheena Iyengar
. Other-Perceived Sincerity Predicts Political Election Outcomes, Facebook Popularity, and Speed-Dating Success . January 01, 2018.
. The Ties That B(l)ind: How Social Connectedness Diminishes Individual Influence in Group Judgments. January 01, 2016.
Suppes, Alexandra and Sheena Iyengar
. What can a looking glass reflect? Trait observability predicts what feedback is incorporated into self-knowledge. January 10, 2011.
Iyengar, Sheena, Sanford DeVoe, and Claudius Hildebrand
. Reconsidering Choice in the Design of Work: The Persistent Influence of Ethnicity Within a Multinational Organization. November 23, 2010.
. So Many Choices, So Little Time: The Influence of Timeframe on Decision Confidence and Affect. August 24, 2010.
. Racial Preferences in Dating: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experience. January 01, 2005.
Hildebrand, Claudius, Sheena Iyengar, and Xi Zou
. "Lay Theories of Networking Ability: Beliefs that Inhibit Engagement in Networking."
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. "A Better Choosing Experience."
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. "Why the Soda Tax Makes Us Angry."
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. "Assisted Suicide and 'Free Choice'."
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. "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness."
Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
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. The Art of Choosing .
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Iyengar, Sheena and Elena Reutskaja
. "The Full Information Assumption and the Choice Overload Effect." In
Behavioral Economics and Economic Psychology
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Iyengar, Sheena and Tucker Kuman
. "Does More Choice Lead to More Flourishing?" In
Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing
Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston
Reutskaja, E., Sheena Iyengar, B. Fasolo, and R. Misuraca
. "Can You Adapt to the Load? Cognitive and Affective Consequences of Information Load." In
Handbook on Bounded Rationality
. "Allocating resources among group members: The medium of exchange matters." In
Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Fairness and Groups, Volume 13
B. Mannix, M. Neale, and E. Mullen
Bingley, UK
. "How Much Choice Is Too Much? Determinants of Individual Contributions in 401K Retirement Plans." In
Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance
O. S. Mitchell and S. P. Utkus
Iyengar, Sheena, Wei Jiang, and Gur Huberman
. "How much choice is too much: Determinants of individual contributions in 401K retirement plans." In
Pension Design and Structure: Lessons from Behavioral Finance
Iyengar, Sheena and Sanford DeVoe
. "Rethinking the Value of Choice: Considering Cultural Mediators of Intrinsic Motivation." In
Cross-Cultural Differences in Perspectives on the Self
Virginia Murphy-Berman and John J. Berman
Lincoln, Neb.; London
. "Choice and Its Consequences: On the Costs and Benefits of Self-Determination." In
Self and Motivation: Emerging Psychological Perspectives
Abraham Tesser, Diederik A. Stapel, Janne V. Wood, and Joanne V. Wood
Iyengar, Sheena and Joel Brockner
. "Cultural Differences in Self and the Impact of Personal and Social Influences." In
The Practice of Social Influence in Multiple Cultures
Wilhelmina Wosinska, Robert B. Cialdini, and Daniel W. Barrett
Mahwah, N.J.
Lawrence Erlbaum
Iyengar, Sheena, Mark R. Lepper, and Lee Ross
. "Independence from Whom? Interdependence with Whom? Cultural Perspectives on Ingroups Versus Outgroups." In
Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict
Deborah A. Prentice and Dale T. Miller
Russell Sage
Lepper, Mark R., Sheena Iyengar, Dania Dialdin, and Michael Drake
. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: A Developmental Perspective." In
Developmental Psychopathology: Perspectives on Adjustment, Risk, and Disorder
Suniya S. Luthar, Jacob A. Burack, and Dante Cicchetti
B8577: Think Bigger
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Overthinking Your Money: Avoiding Analysis Paralysis
Retailers Cut Back on Choices; 'We Don't Need Three Types of Red'
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You're Facing a Lot of Choices Amid the Pandemic. Cut Yourself Slack: It's Called Decision Fatigue.


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Purdue-Northwestern football live updates
Follow along as Purdue takes on Northwestern in their season opener.
Purdue-Northwestern football live updates Follow along as Purdue takes on Northwestern in their season opener. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://on.jconline.com/2POb1DT
Rondale Moore of Purdue is all smiles after rushing for a 76-yard touchdown at 1:02 against Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. Moore's score tied the game at 14-14. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Purdue vs. Northwestern football on Aug. 30, 2018: Shots from the opener
Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm with words for the officials after JR Pace of Northwestern intercepted a pass by Elijah Sindelar in the first quarter Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Cameron Green of Northwestern looks for running room after a pass reception in the fisrt half against Purdue Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Rondale Moore of Purdue on a 76-yard touchdown run at 1:02 in the first quarter against Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. Moore's score tied the game at 14-14. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Navon Mosley of Purdue tackles John Moten IV of Northwestern in the second quarter Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Rondale Moore races to the endzone for a touchdown at 4:20 in the first quarter against Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. Purdue trailed Northwestern 14-7 after Moore's score. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Riley Lees of Northwestern lunges for additional yardage on a carry against Purdue Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Jeremy Larkin of Northwestern celebrates with teammate Trey Pugh after his rushing touchdown against Purdue at 5:34 in the first quarter Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. Northwestern lead 14-0 after Larkin's score. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Jared Sparks of Purdue can't come up with a catch as he is hit by Jared McGee of Northwestern in the second quarter Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Northwestern quarterback TJ Green with a pass against Purdue in the first quarter Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Jeremy Larkin of Northwestern (28) celebrates with teammates Cameron Green (84) and Trey Pugh (80) after his rushing touchdown at 7:58 in the first quarter against Purdue Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Rondale Moore looks to the Purdue bench after at 76-yard touchdown run at 1:02 against Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. Moore's score tied the game at 14-14. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Aug 30, 2018; West Lafayette, IN, USA; Northwestern Wildcats running back Jeremy Larkin (28) stiff arms Purdue Boilermaker corner back Tim Carson (24) in the first half at Ross-Ade Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Thomas J. Russo-USA TODAY Sports Thomas J. Russo, USA TODAY Sports
A student group calling itself the Beautiful Brothers gets pumped up for Purdue's game against Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. The students said they arrived before 6 a.m. for the game. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Quarterback Elijah Sindelar warms up before Purdue takes on Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Quarterback David Blough warms up before Purdue face Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
KC Sands and his playing partner Rob Eger, background, enjoy a game of cornhole before Purdue takes on Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Becky Mason sports a pair of Purdue Pete socks as she gets set for the Boilermakers game against Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. Mason, who is from Boston, is a freshman at Purdue. She said the sock were a gift from her parents when she decided to attend Purdue. John Terhune/Journal & Courier,
Rondale Moore of Purdue is all smiles after rushing for a 76-yard touchdown at 1:02 against Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. Moore's score tied the game at 14-14.
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Quarterback Elijah Sindelar warms up before Purdue takes on Northwestern Thursday, August 30, 2018, in West Lafayette. (Photo: John Terhune/Journal & Courier, )Buy Photo
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IBM's "resource action" (RA) has brought fears among its employees in the hardware business unit otherwise known as System Technology Group (STG). A reported 13,000 jobs could be axed with India being the first casualty of this operation. At 100,000 strong, IBM's India staff form a critical part of the country's IT sector.
Globally, IBM has 430,000 employees and with the heat coming down on the India STG unit makes this IBM's second largest job cut after the US. This is part of IBM's deal to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo. Lenovo handed over $2.3 billion for the low-end server division. After bleak earnings report, IBM took steps to growing its share value. The low-end hardware business was first to go.
"As we look forward to 2014, we'll continue our transformation, shifting our investments to the growth areas, and mixing to higher value. We'll acquire key capabilities, we'll divest businesses, and we'll rebalance our workforce, as we continue to return value to shareholders." – Martin Schroete, IBM CFO.
Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701 is an IBM employee organization that is dedicated to preserving and improving our rights and benefits at IBM. We also strive towards restoring management's respect for the individual and the value we bring to the company as employees. Our mission is to make our voice heard with IBM management, shareholders, government and the media. While our ultimate goal is collective bargaining rights with IBM, we will build our union now and challenge IBM on the many issues facing employees from off-shoring and job security to working conditions and company policy.


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Yes, dinner is provided! The tables will be set, the evening will be perfect, and the discussion among old and new friends will be rich. For more information about dinner, visit our FAQ page.
Come together after your tent workshops and dinner to hear our dynamic speakers and Bible teachers inspire you to deepen your faith, build bridges, and impact your community. We'll be announcing speakers soon!
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It's very unlikely you worry about the every day items around your home causing you harm, but perhaps you should. Many common household items, accessories and even furnishings could pose a threat to you and your family's health. In most instances there are alternatives on the market so to keep your health in check and protect your family's too, consider avoiding the following eight household regulars.
No modern home really requires heavy duty disinfectant like bleach. Bleach can seriously irritate the throat and lungs. Research shows it may even cause asthma in people who had never experienced the condition previously. No regular household really needs anything stronger than soap and water. If you do still need to use bleach, experts recommend a 10 to 1 ratio, water to bleach. There are also many chemical-free cleaners on the market which mean there really is no place for aggressive chemicals in the modern home.
These two household items have been grouped together because the "bad guy" in each case is the same. Phthalates, also known as plasticizers, are found in a wide range of items from standard wax candles to fragrances and cosmetics. Studies have linked phthalates to everything from asthma to autism spectrum disorders. The bottom line is they are best avoided, and companies have been informed to proceed with caution before using these chemicals in their products. Pregnant women and children are the most vulnerable to the damaging effects of phthalates.
This may seem like madness but in homes where respiratory conditions such as asthma are a problem, the carpets really should go. Carpets trap a huge amount of dust compared to wooden or hard flooring. Dusty homes are much more likely to be a risk to people with lung conditions and even if you don't live with anyone with asthma or similar, playing on rugs and carpets carrying dust can irritate children's lungs and potentially lead to a condition developing.
We can't live without them in hotter months but if they're not regularly serviced, air conditioner units can become death traps. If your air conditioner develops a leak, then it could soon cause refrigerant poisoning. Refrigerant poisoning can cause heart palpitation and seizures and can be fatal. Air conditioning units are also breeding grounds for mold so it is completely essential to have them serviced if you don't want to consider giving it up altogether.
The National Pesticides Telecommunications Network report that 90% of US households use some form of pesticides and this puts them all at risk. Pesticides can mean fly spray, rat poison and everything in between. Pesticides are regularly tested but they still pose a real threat to your family and should be kept far out of reach of children and away from pets. Ventilation is key if you have to use pesticides and it often makes more sense to utilize a professional service instead.
In Canada bottles made from polycarbonate plastics are on their way to being banned, but the same is not the case here. Polycarbonate plastic bottles are the most common on the market, but they can pose risk to young children and effect their development and growth. Polycarbonate bottles are made using a chemical compound called bisphenol-A or BPA and it has a similar structure to the natural hormone estrogen. BPA is therefore a hormone disruptor and can interfere with the body's natural hormones, making it potentially dangerous for young children to be exposed to several times a day.
Around since the 1960s, non-stick cookware used to be a must-have in the home. They cut down cleaning time and made it easier to prepare food. However, this comes at a price. The coating which creates the non-stick is polytetrafluorethylene, also known as PTFE, and it has many questionable features. PTFE becomes dangerous as it is heated. It releases toxic gases and these gases have been linked with many harmful health effects including cancer, reproductive damage and even organ failure. It is when PTFE coated pans are heated to particularly high temperatures that they become dangerous but nevertheless you may want to rethink using them in the home.
Electric blankets may seem like a good idea, but they have been known to cause fatal heat stroke. They have been linked to reproductive conditions and issues, although the scientific evidence to back this up has yet to be uncovered. Like with many of the household items on this list it's about balance and whether you think that the risk of heat stroke and potential reproductive problems is worth the risk, whether the evidence is finite or not.
Any anti-bacterial cleaner or soap which contains triclosan should be treated with caution. Triclosan has aggressive and powerful anti-bacterial properties but once in our water supply it causes real damage. It is toxic to algae, may be a carcinogen and some research suggests it could be damaging to the human endocrine system.
Everyone wants their furniture to look its best at all times, but it is essential you are careful and if possible, avoid using furniture polish altogether. The composition of furniture polish is particularly toxic and while swallowing it is the most dangerous thing you can do, even inhalation can be extremely hazardous. It can irritate your throat and lungs severely and the same is possible if it comes into contact with your skin.
Many of these items may be used every day in your home but is it worth it? None of these items are necessary and you can find alternatives with less health-damaging properties. There are many chemicals and products which we thought were fine 20 years ago that we now know are not, so there is no excuse not to remove them from our homes. For a healthier and safer home, opting for less-chemical based agents and look more carefully at the labels when purchasing anything for the home.


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10 books like Fathoms
By Rebecca Giggs,
Here are 10 books that authors have personally recommended if you like Fathoms. Shepherd is a community of 7,000+ authors sharing their favorite books with the world.
By Jules Verne,
Recommended by Maddalena Bearzi
From Maddalena's list on the ocean and its inhabitants.
As a marine biologist that enjoys reading both, fiction and nonfiction, I own a copy of the classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, one of the best novels ever written about the ocean. Verne's adventures of Captain Nemo and life inside his underwater ship, the Nautilus, can capture anyone's imagination.
3 authors picked 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
First serialized in a French magazine from 1869-1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an incredible adventure story that popularized science fiction throughout the world.
Professor Aronnax, a marine biologist, joins harpoonist Ned Land in search of a mysterious sea creature in the open ocean, only to discover that the beast is actually a submarine piloted by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. They are taken captive, thus beginning a strange undersea voyage from Antarctic ice shelves to the subterranean city of Atlantis, hunting sharks along the way.
With its sprawling, exotic plot and vivid descriptions, Jules Verne's epic underwater adventure…
The Outlaw Ocean
By Ian Urbina,
Recommended by Helen Scales
From Helen's list on the ocean and seas.
Urbina gives a shocking and vital account of the human and environmental troubles that are taking place across the ocean, out of sight beyond the horizon. From cases of modern-day slavery and murder aboard fishing vessels to the tricks played by whaling ships and cruise ships to avoid detection of their environmental crimes.
1 author picked The Outlaw Ocean as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN
**New York Times bestseller**
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity.
Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion-providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves…
Lady With a Spear
By Eugenie Clark,
Eugenie Clark wrote this book about the early days of her amazing career as a marine biologist and shark specialist (she was later nicknamed the 'Shark Lady'). In the 1940s, not only was she unusual for being a female scientist, but she set off on intrepid journeys around the world, studying fish around tiny islands across the Pacific and in the Red Sea, long before it was developed as a tourist destination. This book gives a glorious view of a pioneering scientist and what ocean science used to be like. I was lucky enough to meet her a few years before she died in her nineties. She was incredibly warm and generous, and was clearly still driven by the same boundless curiosity and adventurous spirit that you will see written across the pages of her book.
1 author picked Lady With a Spear as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Eugenie Clark, who received her Ph.D. in 1951, was one of the first women to do independent field work in ichthyology. In this youthful memoir, she describes her childhood excursions to Manhattan's old Aquarium, and the development of her education and her career specialty - plectognaths, the family that includes the blowfish, puffer, triggerfish, and other (sometimes poisonous) varieties. "Delightful autobiography." - Christian Science Monitor.
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
By John Steinbeck,
In this nonfiction book, American author John Steinbeck narrates the boat research expedition to collect marine specimens that he made with his friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts in the Gulf of California. As a marine biologist, I loved this book, but be careful because this extended travelogue blending adventure, science, and philosophy is not for everyone!
3 authors picked The Log from the Sea of Cortez as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure.
The Sound of the Sea
By Cynthia Barnett,
Recommended by Sandy Sheehy
From Sandy's list on the amazing world of coral reefs.
In clear, evocative prose, Barnett describes the world of seashells and humans' relationship to them. Her book was laced with "Who knew?" moments for me. For example, until recently people considered seashells a kind of rock, giving little thought to the creatures that built and inhabited them. Barnett explains the threat that rising carbon dioxide levels present to the formation and very existence of shells, but she never carps; and although she interjects some of her own experiences—and sense of wonder—she never lapses into making this book about her, rather than her subject.
2 authors picked The Sound of the Sea as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations for thousands of years. They were money before coins, jewellery before gems, art before canvas.
In The Sound of the Sea, Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and environmental science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. From the mysterious glow of giant clams to the surprising origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, the book is filled with unforgettable stories. As it explores the perfect symmetry of a Chambered Nautilus, the pink-glossed lip of…
The Nutmeg's Curse
By Amitav Ghosh,
Recommended by Mitchell Thomashow
From Mitchell's list on deep environmental learning.
Amitav Ghosh is an outstanding novelist who has now written two great books about global environmental change. His previous work, The Great Derangement, looks at the relationship between colonialism, the humanities, and the climate crisis. Now, The Nutmeg's Curse expands that exploration provides more detail and depth, and covers the historical era of European expansion, paying close attention to how that process irrevocably and dangerously changed how we perceive the natural world. In so doing, Ghosh covers some of the most pertinent issues of contemporary environmental learning—race, equity, diversity, inclusion, and migration.
If you want to gain deeper insight into our current environmental challenges from a cultural perspective, this book will reward that interest. Hopefully, too, it will give you insight into your own behaviors and cultural predispositions.
1 author picked The Nutmeg's Curse as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.
A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh's narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The…
Islands of Abandonment
By Cal Flyn,
Recommended by Jen Barclay
From Jen's list on wild and abandoned island places.
Abandoned places, reclaimed by the wild – Flyn's fascinating book speaks directly to my obsession, but instead of using that framework to explore a particular place, she investigated twelve locations around the world with different histories and climates. Most aren't literally islands but figuratively so, being separated from their surroundings by a disaster of one kind or another, and each shows a different aspect of the exciting process at work that gives hope for ecological restoration. As you'd guess from the subtitle and cover, she uncovers some bleak sites of a nuclear meltdown and toxification and war, exploring in a way that's both scientific and yet accessible and beautifully written, showing how abandonment can increase biodiversity; that these places of abandonment are an 'experiment in rewilding', and there's hope for redemption when we let nature take over again.
2 authors picked Islands of Abandonment as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence
"[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new appreciation of life, 'all the stranger and more valuable for its resilence.'" --The New Yorker
Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere…
Atlas of the Invisible
By James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti,
Recommended by Eric Magrane
From Eric's list on looking at field guides and atlases in a new way.
This atlas beautifully demonstrates how geography is crucial to making sense of patterns and relationships in the world. I sat down and read it cover to cover, though it also would work well as a coffee table book. If you dig maps and data, this book is for you. If you're interested in design, this book is for you. If you want to really visualize how putting interesting data on a map can help you to look at the world in new ways, this book is for you. Heck, if you're curious about the world, this book is for you.
2 authors picked Atlas of the Invisible as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine hidden scars of geopolitics, and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise…
Watching Giants
By Elin Kelsey, Doc White (photographer),
Francois Gohier (photographer)
Recommended by Jim Lynch
From Jim's list on cool facts about whales.
Kelsey's book is a graceful mix of science and personal odyssey. She hangs out with whale scientists and asks smart questions. Her subjects are as much the scientists as the whales, including Chris Clark who studies the acoustics of whales and our increasingly noisy oceans. She takes us on her personal journey to the last page where she concludes that whales "inspire me to act more generously."
2 authors picked Watching Giants as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, "Watching Giants" opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colorful first-person account, drawing from her rich, often humorous, everyday experiences as a mother, a woman, and a scientist, takes us to the incredibly productive waters of the Gulf of California and beyond, to oceans around the world. Kelsey brings us along as she talks to leading cetacean researchers and marine ecologists about their intriguing discoveries. We encounter humpback whales that build nets from bubbles,…
By Philip Hoare,
Leviathan is an incredibly well written book about Hoare's own fascination with whales and Moby Dick, Herman Melville's intense whale-driven masterpiece. Hoare captures whales in words as well as anybody. "The whale is a miracle of marine engineering," he writes, and then explains both their biological wonders as well as their psychological impact on us. "There is a supernatural physicality to them… They look like we feel as we float in our dreams."
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In 'Leviathan', Philip Hoare seeks to locate and identify this obsession. What impelled Melville to write 'Moby-Dick'? After…
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Fallout 4 Review
by smokin_cheez · November 20, 2015
Ever since its first announcement earlier this year at E3 2015, Fallout 4 has been the game that fans have been anticipating the most the world over. After knocking out sales on November 10th and the competition — Rise of the Tomb Raider — by a tremendous margin, people are wondering whether it is as good as it's hyped up to be. A lengthy gap of five years between the release of Fallout: New Vegas and this new iteration on the post-apocalyptic world has given Bethesda plenty of time to come up with interesting ideas to create a better experience. However, will this be the game that will have you pouring hundreds of your game hours into? Or will it simply be a prettier rehash of previous titles?
Fallout 4 begins in Boston, Massachusetts where the player resides with his/her significant other and their infant son, Shaun. After a short instance of relative calm, nuclear detonations begin to go off and lay waste to the land. Your character and their family quickly evacuate to the nearby Vault 111 in order to survive, and are frozen cryogenically for just over 200 years. After tragically watching your other half get murdered, the protagonist sets out for vengeance and to get his son back from those that kidnapped him. This is where you meet the inhabitants of the Commonwealth, learn of all the events and terms associated with this desolate world, and actively perform quests to earn friends to assist in your vendetta.
As always with Bethesda games, the depth of the in-game lore goes above and beyond anything players typically see in RPGs. The places you see reflect such a beautiful parallel to early 1900s Boston that it makes a player smile with amazement as you pass by landmarks and special venues. The story also has a lot of twists and turns with the central plot circulating around trying to find your kidnapped son, Shaun while gathering allies and resources along the way. The ultimate choice at the end of the game is as surprising as one would expect of Fallout titles, but it's one that's difficult to make as it tugs with your emotions. This aspect of it is what makes this a good game: that it's told in a fantastic way and that it tugs with your emotions in different directions. With the fact that characters are fleshed out with good voice acting and solid personalities makes this an excellent choice for anyone who loves RPGs to get into.
The fact that there's a voice actor for the protagonist was a big change from previous Fallout titles, which only had you select what they were going to say with "imaginative speech". While at first adjusting to it, it soon became apparent that it was actually what the series needed to make it feel more fleshed out. It didn't necessarily take away the "you feel like the character aspect", instead it added more depth to them as you heard the emotional struggles and general tones associated with the choice in your answers. This helps the player understand exactly what choice they made after they pick it; I understood that when I chose something that sounded neutral when I read it, it was actually threatening instead. The only issue I have with watching the dialogue exchange between your character and the other is that their facial movements don't look natural, as if it's stuck in the past games' animation for it.
It's time to talk about the gameplay which, in my opinion, has such a familiarity to it yet feels reinvigorated. For those who haven't played the previous titles, the game performs an admirable job at easing you into combat. While the plethora of different attributes and perks can be quite confusing for first time players, the game does well in explaining what each does and makes it obvious that being a jack-of-all-trades can be a downside. The mechanics encourage the player to concentrate on a few branches or a certain fighting style (such a pugilism, melee weapons, or guns). The fun part about Fallout is that you can always go through another play-through to see what it's like to fight barehanded instead of with guns, or to simply increase your charisma and talk your way out of many situations!
Many features from previous games in the series return including V.A.T.S. and Survival Mode. Each are revamped in their own way but still remain familiar for returning players. Survival was always the name of the game for Fallout, but in this new title you'll be scavenging like crazy to continue living in this mode. It creates a sensation of desperate struggle while looking around for resources, which makes the player feel more absorbed into the game and a part of the world. You are also able to create various foods and aids by utilizing ingredients found in the environment or off wildlife in a crafting system, as you can purify irradiated meat or water by cooking them over a campfire. Food isn't the only thing that you're able to create through crafting anymore, though.
The crafting system implemented into the new title requires a whole section of its own. In previous Fallout titles, junk found around the Wasteland had very little to no significance in anything, it was literally just junk. However, Fallout 4 changes this up completely by actually rewarding those of us that hoard these objects in games. By utilizing the workbench you enter into a "crafting mode", in this crafting mode you're able to break down different objects around the map and junk in your inventory in order to harvest material. Material is then used to craft different objects, structures, and miscellaneous items for building up a town or area. This could possibly be the best thing Bethesda has ever thought about adding to one of their titles, as the junk scattered around the the post-apocalyptic land is now useful which actually rewards the amount of hoarding that normally goes on in games like this.
The aesthetics for the environment, weapons, and creatures looks amazing. With the power of the newer consoles behind the title, it runs smoothly for the most part, only beginning to chug as soon as some powerful explosive goes by. This is something that the series suffered in the last few games as it's trying to process the physics to everything flying or getting destroyed by the explosion, as well as the rag-doll effect on characters. This shouldn't be a problem in the new age of gaming because of the power of the new consoles, and definitely should have been an issue that Bethesda would have fixed since New Vegas.
The Pip-Boy feels got a big update, it allows even more functionality and choices for your playing needs. You are able to look up items in a model viewer, play holo-tapes, and more which adds to the overall experience. The list in which you access and distribute points for Perks and Attributes is now all conveniently located in one place. This gives players a more organized way to choose among the large array of Perks , however, it's also a tad bit confusing at the same time. Without any proper order to the Perks, along with the fact that it's all spread out poster-style, it gets hard to keep track of what you invested into and what other Perks work well together. It's as if the developers just expect the player to figure it out right away but sometimes you might put too many points into the wrong thing, wishing you had done something different because it works with another Perk.
The Pip-Boy Companion App on your phone is probably one of the most interesting extras to the game. The ease of connectivity to your console and game coupled with the response time is simply astounding. While looking around in-game, it shows my characters pointer marker on the map on the App turning along with him. It became apparent that Bethesda wanted this to be an integral addition to play style for players, but it is optional as you can simply bring up your Pip-Boy on the TV screen anyway. Anything you do in the App, however, is immediately reflected while playing; players can drop their items, use meds, turn on the radio, or even play the holo-tape video games!
As per usual, the Achievements accompanied with a Fallout title are not only enjoyable and practical to achieve, but also humorous. They task the player with performing a set of challenges that gives the player incentive to either perform another run-through (if you didn't want to already to try different attributes/combat styles), but also some require a specific task that could involve such things as placing a grenade in someone's pocket while stealing from them. There are also level-based Achievements to get, but they don't feel grind-y because you're typically leveling up whilst completing extra and optional quests along the way.
In conclusion, Fallout 4 is the ultimate sequel to the series. While New Vegas was a significant addition to the series as it introduced the Survival Mode feature, Fallout 4 encompasses the best from every game along with stellar graphics, the crafting/city-building system, and improved Pip-Boy. Additions to the game include the utilization of a Pip-Boy Companion App which is extremely responsive and easy to connect. Dialogue exchanges between your characters and NPCs feels a bit clunky, along with the fact that the frame rate drops exponentially and chugs whenever there's a large explosion in an enclosed area. However, this pales to the positive points of the game, which tips the scales in favour of buying it and making it the game of the year to play. Welcome home.
Graphics - 9.5/10
Gameplay - 9.5/10
Controls - 9.5/10
Sound - 9.5/10
Replay Value - 9.5/10
Fallout 4 was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was released for Xbox One on November 10th, 2015 and is also available for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. A press review copy was provided for The Hidden Levels. Many studios submit copies for site review but this is in no way factored into our review scores. Games are scored on their individual merits and our rating system is explained here.
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