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A friend just pointed out this link, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways To Be Persuasive. It’s pretty fascinating stuff, excerpted from Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, by Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin, and Robert Cialdini. Some of it’s psychological research done for advertisers, other from more general psychological studies. these are the kinds of things advertisers…

Last night I met people who work on a newish online section from the New York Times, Recipes for Health. It’s lovingly put together by devout foodies and divided up by main ingredients. They have some slideshows of recipes by kind, like this deeelish-looking salad recipe collection. This roasted beet-yogurt salad in particular is calling my…

The New York Times has started a new blog called Happy Days, with the tagline: “The Pursuit of What Matters in Troubled Times.” A recent post by author Pico Iyer called “The Joy of Less,” tells of the writer’s shift to a life of simplicity in “nowhere Japan” where he must travel an hour to…

I tried “Nikki’s Healthy Cookies” recipe from 101Cookbooks (a fab site) a few months ago and have since made multiple batches. They really are healthy–and surprisingly delicious, despite being “butter-less, flour-less, egg-less,” and free of refined sugar. They’re moist, banana-y, and full of oats and coconut–and chocolate, of course. Though the ingredients are a little bit spendy,…
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