I was scrolling through the psychology news in my Google Reader last night and came across a study finding that “some people are as giddy as teenagers in love, even after two decades of marriage.”  Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine compared the brain activity of people who claimed to be in love for just…

By now the world has heard about Black Wednesday: the largest number of layoffs in book publishing announced in a single day, with Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt cutting hundreds of jobs, and the Doubleday group being cut up and divided among other houses within RH. It’s never a good week to be…

The Saturday before Thanksgiving Hardcore Dharma gathered under the tutelage of the lovely, sore-footed Jessica to discuss two sets of triplicates in Buddhist teachings: the three dharma seals and the three doors of liberation. The Three Dharma Seals (according to Thich Nhat Hanh’s Book, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching”) are impermanence, non-self and Nirvana. …

Plastic bags are a hot topic of discussion this week. The Wonkster column in the Gotham Gazette reports that Gov. Patterson has until Dec. 12th to sign or veto New York State’s plastic bag recycling bill (which undermines the stronger NYC bill – see previous post about that here). And this is NY1 coverage of…

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