Do you remember your first encounter with the beast that eats up…
| June 13, 2011
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Golden Globes 1998 – Golden Globes 2009
| June 13, 2011
They both aged well, i must say!
Your Name Impacts How Others Judge You?
| June 13, 2011
Alexandra will get an A in class but Amber won’t. At least, that’s what their peers expect, according to a small new study of the meanings encoded in people’s names.
“The name you give your kid is sort of a proxy for a whole bunch of things in our culture,” study researcher John Waggoner of Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania told LiveScience. Names have been linked to many life choices, including what kind of work people do and how they donate to charity.
Previous studies have shown that what people name their children varies by their socioeconomic status and education level. Waggoner and his colleagues wondered if people’s names affect what others expect of them.
Anti-Joke Compilation
| June 13, 2011
What do you call two mexicans playing basketball? -their first names.
Why did the fish fall off its bike? -It’s a fish.
Can You Get Paid $100,000 To Not Go to College?
| June 12, 2011
It sounds like a teenager’s dream and a parent’s nightmare. Peter Thiel, PayPal’s co-founder, is paying 24 college-aged students $100,000 to just say no — to college.
For two years, winners of the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship have focused on developing business ideas instead of heading to class.
The fellows will work in Silicon Valley with a network of more than 100 mentors where they “will pursue innovative scientific and technical projects, learn entrepreneurship and begin to build the technology companies of tomorrow,” the press release states.
We can still be friends
| June 12, 2011
