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Re: Hawaii Five-O Creates an alternate universe with you inside.

Pinball1968 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:40:12 -0000

I loved your article. It was really funny. It just shows how advertisers assume John Q.Public is a brainless idiot. But then again, anyone waiting for, and watching prime time t.v. Today probably is! At least its a scripted drama with professional actors. Anything to get away from Reality t.v. ....” Next on cbs, Garbage men, thier exighting stories, and exotic lifstyles”

Re: Chicago Improv Update 8/14/11

Davide — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:17:57 -0000

This is awesome, Nate: thanks for posting! Also, www.gainesvilleimprov.com just opened registration for their festival in February.

Re: Great Teachers Love What They Teach

Million Mile Secrets — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:42:53 -0000

I agree completely. My favorite teachers managed to make dry subjects like Math, Law, and Accounting interesting. And their excitement and love of the subject, which was very apparent, was contagious.

Re: Logarithmic Sense of Time

Natebaumgart — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:54 -0000

Very Cool. Thanks for the link! Interesting reading. It's very interesting to think that marketing and story telling in our society pay close attention to this phenomenon but it has been largely absent from our discussion of macro-economics for the last 100 years.

Re: Logarithmic Sense of Time

Ken Novak — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:17:04 -0000

Yep. It's called the Weber-Fechner Effect, and it explains why the amount of time people will spend bargaining to save money on a purchase is not a function of the amount of money, that is, the number of dollars, but the percentage of the purchase price. So someone will spend roughly the same amount of time trying to save $500 on the price of a car than they will to save $5000 on the price of a house. Another way of looking at it is that we perceive differences as a percentage of change from some base amount rather than an absolute change. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Breakups

Raelene Gravley — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:34:27 -0000

Can you provide more information on this? cheers

Re: Understanding Art as Work in “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself”

Nate Baumgart — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:02:55 -0000

I had to look up 'etic.' I think I see what you mean...

Re: Understanding Art as Work in “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself”

Tony Perone — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:11:20 -0000

Your discussion of Lipsky's inability to get past and listen outside of his own perspectives and perceive those of Wallace's gave me some insights into how an etic lens can hamper meaning-making in qualitative inquiry. Thanks.