Culture

A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life

As reported on Businessinsider.com Scott Stossel, The Atlantic   The project, which began in 1938, has followed 268 Harvard undergraduate men for 75 years, measuring an astonishing range of psychological, anthropological, and physical traits—from personality type to IQ to drinking habits to family relationships to “hanging length of his scrotum”—in an effort to determine what factors contribute most strongly to human flourishing. Recently, George Vaillant, who directed the study for more than three decades, published Triumphs…

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Automotive

Status Symbols: Porsche 959

As reported on The Verge. By Chris Ziegler Meet the car that Bill Gates waited more than a decade to drive  Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They’re things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation.     Run-flat tires equipped with a pressure monitoring system. All-wheel drive. Adjustable, electronically-controlled ride height.…

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Google

Living with Google Glass, Day One: the reveal

As reported on Engadget. By Tim Stevens In a loft atop Chelsea Market, Google is doing something special. Here, lucky Explorers will get their first taste of Project Glass. Yes, Google’s latest X project (that we know about, at least) has finally made its way to the East Coast en masse. More importantly, it’s also made its way to my face. A full Engadget review of the headset is most certainly on the way, but this…

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