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“Bernie is a candidate that is not to be taken lightly, a by-the-numbers major player in the race to be the next president of the richest, most powerful country in human history. He is a candidate with firm values, authentic determination and a thorough set of solutions to the problems facing America today. And it is about time we started treating him that way.”

Medium.com

Time for Year-round DST?

This article makes a lot of sense. For those sick of the “spring forward, fall back” nonsense, there are two options: abolish DST completely, or embrace it completely. I prefer the latter, mostly because I am much more likely to see the sunset than the sunrise. Read carefully and look at the charts… where do…

There has been a lot of dialog lately about whether social networks make it harder to maintain actual close-knit friendships, i.e. they make us favor quantity to quality… There are many different perspectives on this, but this article breaks it down from the perspective of an anthropologist, psychologist, and social scientist Robin Dunbar. I found it to be very interesting and relevant.

The Limits of Friendship – The New Yorker

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“Cool” ain’t what it used to be, that’s for sure. Kids nowadays are all about glitter on their car keys, instagram, hashtags, names that start with the letter ‘A’, YOLO, swag, and inexplicably, cats.

50 Classy People From the Past – Distractify