Monthly Archives: March 2021

Science & Health

Want to Improve Emotional Intelligence? This Simple Trick Actually Works | Inc.com

It’s called the Laundry Basket Rule, and it’s a heck of a shortcut.

Photo: Getty Images. Illustration: Inc. Magazine

By Bill Murphy Jr.@BillMurphyJr

But a reader recently reminded me of a brilliantly simple way to explain the whole strategy — something I’ve written about before in a different context, without even realizing how apt it was.

Maybe we should explain the problem first, so the simple solution will make the most sense. It goes like this. Defining emotional intelligence can be complex, but practically speaking, it’s often about shaping communication so as to avoid emotional pitfalls that distract from your goals. 

The challenge? So many words and phrases have ancillary meanings that we don’t even think about. Sometimes they’re the exact opposite of the things we intend. 

Source: Want to Improve Emotional Intelligence? This Simple Trick Actually Works | Inc.com

Arts & Humanities, Books & Reading, Film & Movies, Games, San Diego, Television, Travel

Comic-Con Plans In-Person Convention on Thanksgiving Weekend 2021 – Variety

Christy Radecic/Invision/AP

Editor’s Note: Been There, Will Be There Again…

San Diego Comic-Con is returning in 2021.

Despite recent news that the massive, pop culture convention would be going virtual in July, plans for the fall gathering have moved forward. Comic-Con International has announced their plans to hold an in-person convention in 2021.

The three-day event titled, “Comic-Con Special Edition” will take place over Thanksgiving weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 26 through the 28 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Source: Comic-Con Plans In-Person Convention on Thanksgiving Weekend 2021 – Variety

Arts & Humanities, Books & Reading, Libraries

Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves | Vanity Fair

Illustrations by Shawn Martinbrough; Coloring by Christopher Sotomayor.

“Impossible,” said David Ward. The London Metropolitan Police constable looked up.

Some 50 feet above him, he saw that someone had carved a gaping hole through a skylight. Standing in the Frontier Forwarding warehouse in Feltham, West London, he could hear the howl of jets from neighboring Heathrow Airport as they roared overhead.

At Ward’s feet lay three open trunks, heavy-duty steel cases. They were empty. A few books lay strewn about. Those trunks had previously been full of books. Not just any books. The missing ones, 240 in all, included early versions of some of the most significant printed works of European history.

Source: Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves | Vanity Fair

Web & Technology

(162) How to mindfully switch to the New Google Pixel – YouTube

Made by Google

Switching to a new Google Pixel is super clear and easy.

But calming the mind can take a little longer. Get comfortable and allow this simple meditation to get your new Pixel running, and your mind relaxing.

For more information on how to switch to a new Pixel, check out this step by step guide here:

http://goo.gle/3tDzzU1​

And if you just want to learn more about the Pixel, head to the Google Store: http://goo.gle/36XWaRq

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvYI-nczXM

Editor’s Note: Led to this YouTube video from.. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-just-found-a-brilliant-new-way-to-sell-you-its-pixel-phones/

Arts & Humanities, Books & Reading, Film & Movies, Food & Drink, Love & Relationships, Memories & History

The Man Behind the Hemingway Myth – WSJ

A new PBS documentary offers a fresh look at a great and tragic writer who disappeared into a self-created macho stereotype

Hemingway with his cats in the 1940s.
Photo: Popperfoto/Getty Images
From article…

Early next month, timed to the sixtieth anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death, PBS will air Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s long-awaited three-part, six-hour look at this most iconic of iconic American writers.

In a culture where screens have beat out paper and ink as the medium for gathering information and in so doing have turned us into scanners with atrophied attention spans, it’s something of an irony that it would take the visual experience of a documentary—full of stunning archival photos and deft commentary by the likes of Edna O’Brien and Tobias Wolff—to inspire a return to the page to experience the work of the writer who, as Mr. Wolff puts it, “changed all the furniture in the room.”

Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, behind a pay wall 🙁

Source: The Man Behind the Hemingway Myth – WSJ

Pleasures, Science & Health

Full worm moon will rise Sunday evening; but is it a supermoon?

By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY

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The moon will look most spectacular just as it appears above the eastern horizon early Sunday evening.

Other names for this month’s full moon include the crow, crust, sap, and sugar moon.

By some definitions, it’s a supermoon, meaning that it’s a bit closer to the Earth than during an average full moon.

Get ready for the full “worm” moon, which will rise Sunday evening, March 28, in the eastern sky.The name likely refers to the earthworms that appear in the soil as the weather gets warmer, inviting hungry birds to feed on them.

Source: Full worm moon will rise Sunday evening; but is it a supermoon?