How to Sail to Alaska | Joanna Ludlow | TEDxTerryTalks
Despite having learnt how to sail only 6 weeks prior, Joanna and her friend boarded an 18 foot catamaran in Port Townsend, Washington with a mind…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “Your Boyfriend Wants to be Pretty,” Nick Thornton.
Occasionally, and probably not often enough, young men are told to embrace their feminine side. But what does getting in touch with your “feminine side” actually…
Read articleRemember the Candy Hierarchy? It sure did make a lot of folks angry! Ben and I are working on the 2012 edition right now…
Here is the 2011 version (see original 2011 link for footnotes here). Had a chance to read over 500 comments (from various places where the ranking…
Read article“FAQ: The Snake Fight Portion of your Thesis Defense” via @mcsweeneys
The full piece by Luke Burns is at McSweeney’s, and it’s awesome. I especially liked this bit: Q: Are the snakes big? A: We have lots…
Read articleA Modest Proposal {for Vancouver}
by Nick Thornton It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great city or travel in the GVA, when they see the streets,…
Read articleWhy There Should Be An Historian In Every Office
by Nick Thornton I was having an interesting conversation the other day with a colleague about history graduates and the kind of work they went on…
Read articleTimeline And How We All Came To Be So Entitled
by Nick Thornton There’s been more than a few grumblings over the course of the summer as Facebook has switched users over from the old layout…
Read articleCartoon Episodes About Science
By DAVID NG The Super Friends epsiode: “Wonder vs. Wonder” When it becomes clear that a mission is botched because Wonder Woman is clearly visible in her invisible jet, unhappy…
Read articleBurger of Gold, Coming Right Up!
The reason we spend more than justifiable amounts of time on the internet is that there is always some new excitement or discovery to uncover. Crazy…
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How to be a Useful Cynic
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by Nick Thornton I will start right off the bat by saying that on the surface and perhaps a little deeper, I myself am a cynic.…
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