The Case For Working With Your Hands

"....mechanical work has required me to cultivate different intellectual habits. Further, habits of mind have an ethical dimension that we don’t often think about. Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it, rather than assertiveness, as in the position papers produced on K Street. Cognitive psychologists speak of 'metacognition,' which is the activity of stepping back and thinking about your own thinking."

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Bill Cunningham At The Farmers Market

Pre-Animal Collective

Nifty use of Modul8

How David Beats Goliath

Little guys rule.
"David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 per cent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful—in terms of armed might and population—as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time."

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Image Search: Zip Gun

Improvised fire arms usually created by gang members. Thanks to Steve.