26 Apr
2013
Fair or Foul?
This week’s issue of The Economist looks at American college sports, a multi-billion-dollar industry with unpaid athletes.
OTHER POSTS
Kevin Durant 2014 MVP Speech (Dedicated to his Mother)
If you are a parent, help your kids do one thing….Believe. Teach your kids that no matter how big or small they are, they can accomplish anything in this world they want to.
The Monk With Sweaty Palms
Kasan, a Zen teacher and monk, was to officiate at a funeral of a famous nobleman. As he stood there waiting for the governor of the province and other lords and ladies to arrive, he noticed that the palms of his hands were sweaty. The next day he called his disciples together and confessed he […]
sightsmap.com
Check out Sightsmap.com Sightsmap is a sightseeing popularity heatmap overlayed on Google Maps, based on crowdsourcing: the number of Panoramio photos taken at each place in the world. The goal of the site is to find and explore places interesting for tourism and sightseeing. The most popular places are shown on the map with an appropriate crowd-sourced name, attached links, […]
You Can’t Teach Speed
Sprinters Falsify the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise. From Michael Lombardo’s and Robert Deaners abstract of You Can’t Teach Speed: Most scientists agree that expertise requires both innate talent and proper training. Nevertheless, the highly influential deliberate practice model (DPM) of expertise holds that either talent does not exist, or that its contribution to performance […]