Yesterday passengers from the Titanic began tweeting. Of course, Twitter didn’t exist in 1912, but if you choose to follow @HistoryChannel #Titanic, you’ll receive periodic updates, ending with the sighting of the iceberg, the captain and crew’s responses, the initial load of passengers into the lifeboats, and… the ending. (HT: Wired)
"Acknowledging the American aversion to saving makes it all the more fascinating to consider the challenge facing the two to three billion people in the world living on $2 a day or less and forced save quite a lot of it. In poor countries without national health care or retirement programs, families have to conserve what they can to guard against the possibility that a family member will get hurt, fall ill, or no longer be able to earn a living. The typical Chinese family saves 30% of its income, according to a Credit Suisse study. The typical Indian family saves 15%. How do families in poverty save?" The Atlantic explains.
Ah, so now there's the "white Hispanic" category. Sigh....
A 49-year-old MLB pitcher? Cool. Calling Jamie Moyer a "baby boomer"? Not cool.
We know that people ascribe more authority to someone in a white lab coat than someone in a white painter's coat. What's interesting is that just wearing the white lab coat causes people to score higher in tests measuring attentiveness. Maybe the saying is true: Clothes make the man.
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