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	October 26th, 2012 路 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 1 尾根伝い。 In pursuit of the balanced life: 5 simple tips for teleworkers Posted 1 day ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! 2 The distinction between professional and personal lives for teleworkers is tenuous at best. To achieve optimal levels of productivity, creativity and happiness in both realms of work and leisure, we must develop boundaries. Here are five lessons I’ve learned as a telecommuter. Full story at SmartBrief Social Media. More SmartBrief stories. Photo credit: Fotolia The Heart of the Jack-o'-Lantern Posted 1 day ago by markbittman to bittman 1 You’re carving your jack-o’-lanterns now; soon you’ll buy canned pumpkin for pie. Join the club. Almost no one in this country cooks fresh pumpkin. Yet the pumpkin — or those squashes whose non-English names translate as “pumpkin” — is a staple the world over, turned into substantial dishes celebrated for their sweetness and density. So-called sugar pumpkins, which are smaller and more flavorful than anything you might carve, are the best for cooking and available even in supermarkets. But you can tackle the big boys too. All four of the recipes are global classics, and all use cubes of pumpkin flesh; admittedly, getting at the good stuff is the tricky part. And of course you can use any orange-fleshed squash in any pumpkin recipe. But given the season, let’s assume you’re working with a pumpkin. Start just as if you were carving a jack-o’-lantern: cut a circle around the stem, then pull up on the stem and discard it. Using the cavity as a handle, peel the pumpkin with a sturdy vegetable peeler. Yes, it will take a while. To read the entire article click here. Parents see the sunny side of kids' worries Posted 1 day ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! Parents overestimate their kids’ optimism and downplay their anxieties, researchers say. In three separate studies involving more than 500 children ages 4 through 11, they found that parents consistently rated their children as being less worried and more optimistic than the children rated themselves. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Fotolia Cadbury "Screme" eggs confront the zombie apocalypse [video] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 If brains tasted like the inside of a Cadbury Crème Egg, we’d be lining up in droves to join the zombie hordes, but now we can just line up at the grocery store since the great minds at Cadbury have finally come up with a way to feed our addiction in the fall with “Screme” eggs. Halloween never tasted so good. Bring on the Goopocalypse! Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Cadbury Crème Egg Canada @ Facebook via Foodbeast. Yay, candy! Bleached: Lack of diversity on the front page [infographic] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Though all voices are supposed to be equal in the United States, when it comes to front page news stories, the voice readers are listening to are overwhelmingly white on topics ranging from the economy to immigration. Via 4thEstate.net. Like infographics? So do we. Expedia commercial touches the heart of the matter and the whole of the journey [video] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 If you’re a sucker for card commercials that tell a story, grab the hankie for this one. Travel is so much more than going from Point A to Point B, and this Expedia commercial really touched a chord, garnering over two million hits on YouTube. Artie Goldberg’s trip to his daughter’s wedding and his evolving feelings about her same-sex marriage speaks to an audience whose stories are told far too rarely, but can have a very happy ending. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Expedia @ YouTube. The journey towards understanding. Molecule 'gridlock' becomes glass [video] Posted 1 day ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! Embedded media -- click here to see it. Physicists have made a movie of particle motion as a super-cooled liquid approaches the glass state—a first look at the molecular level of this mysterious process. “When the hot molten liquid that forms a glass cools down, it’s not just that the viscosity becomes enormous, growing by a factor of a billion, there is something different about how the molecules are moving,” says Emory University physicist Eric Weeks. “We wanted to set up an experiment that would allow us to see that movement, but spheres move differently than irregular shapes.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. The social sickness [infographic] Posted about 21 hours ago by Jason Lankow to Holy Kaw! Do you check your phone every two minutes to see how many likes your Instagram photo has? Do your Tweets contain zero vowels? Are you the mayor of a dozen establishments? Your answer to these questions will determine whether or not you belong in the social media infirmary or not. Read on to learn about the social media habits that lead to a severe social sickness and massive decrease in productivity. (Click on the graphic below for more information.) Via Column Five for Marketo Like infographics? So do we. 18 Halloween costumes for the slacker crowd Posted about 19 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 2 So, you’ve been coerced into going to a costume party once again, but put the kibosh on the couple’s costume; what’s a slacker to do? If the river of inspiration is running dry, feel free to steal one of these ideas and no one will be the wiser. Bubble gum on a shoe Error 404 code Full story at Pleated Jeans. Lazy holidays. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.