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links for 2010-08-03

  • Disputed chemical bisphenol-A found in paper receipts
    The headline is misleading – there's nothing in dispute about BPA. It's toxic and unsafe. Since I first read about this, I started paying attention to where my receipts go. The ones that get dumped in my food bag at a fast food place are the most alarming, but the others that get handed to me at checkout end up in my bag, in my pockets – places I touch them and then later eat. I've started to be super careful about how I handle them, but the fact that they've been rolling around in my camera bag that I've never washed out — yeah. Alarming.
    (tags: bpa bisphenol-a environment health receipts)
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links for 2010-07-31

  • The willpower paradox – Bobulate
    "The results were provocative. People with wondering minds completed significantly more anagrams than did those with willful minds. In other words, the people who kept their minds open were more goal-directed and more motivated than those who declared their objective to themselves." — this is highly significant information. I get way more done when I don't make a list of "to do" items than I do if I make the list. I do better wandering around the house putting things away, than I do if I'm on task.
    (tags: behavior productivity motivation focus psychology)
  • Common objects. Uncommonly BIG sizes!
    Giant stuff you can buy. Hmmmm.
    (tags: shopping props bigthings)
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links for 2010-07-30

  • Indiana's girls at higher risk of violence
    The survey does not deal with the context in which those rapes might have occurred or when they might have happened. But it found the percentage of Indiana high school girls who had experienced dating violence — who had been hit, slapped or physically hurt by a boyfriend in the previous 12 months — was higher than the national average: 13.7 percent compared with 9.3 percent nationwide.
    (tags: Indiana misogyny violence feminism)
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365 unclutter – item 11

365 unclutter - item 11

This is a patio bar that I used as a sideboard in my old house. I should have offloaded it when we moved in, but I didn’t figure that out at the time. It currently stores the china that needs to go in the china cabinet, stuff that needs to go on eBay, and Stephanie’s computer stuff, which needs to go in this spot, but on a desk, which will go here when the bar goes away. For these "not quite useful" furniture items, there’s going to be some time and effort involved in getting stuff moved around and discarded, but these are major pieces of the puzzle keeping us from uncluttering.

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links for 2010-07-27

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