Tag: reading

Different Headlines: Battle Of the Sexes turns out they way You’d Think it should; Backpack soaked in Piss on a plane; 6 superfoods to Rewind your age; LeBron Is a Dick; California Toilet to tap water doesn’t Turn out as planned; Alpine a Challenger to Porsche And Ferrari?….and more

Battle of the sexes

Aryna Sabalenka Sparks Outrage By Losing ‘Battle Of The Sexes’ Tennis Match Despite Unequal Advantage – even with help, it wasn’t close. Maybe we can finally admit men and women aren’t equal. It kind of takes the stuffing out of the ‘equal pay for equal play’ concept. It’s not even close.

Health

Rewind Your Age Naturally: The Secret Lies In 6 Superfoods

The Hidden Heavy Metals Damaging Your Brain… And Where They Come From

Cars

Alpine Plans to Challenge Porsche and Ferrari With New Sports Cars

Disgusting Calilfornia

Commiefornia’s ‘Toilet to Tap’ Water: Industrial Grift at Scale Exposed by Citizen Journalist – go ahead and drink the shit water. You’re practically Mexico now anyway. Has Newsome succeeded at anything other than being elected?

Population Movement

More Floridians, Californians Moving to Texas Than Reverse – I get both. California is about as bad as Illinois, and no one is from Florida. They moved there from other states. Plus, both have tourists who ruin everything for the locals. The drivers in Florida don’t know how. I don’t miss living there.

Sticks and Stones may break my bones

Elon Musk Nails It: “Just Stop Caring Whether They Call You Racist or Not – The best part about it is that it’s so overused, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson can’t use it for extortion anymore.

BLM and the Lying Media

Black Lives Matter? The Accused Serial Killer You Have Likely Never Heard Of – if he or any of the victims were white, they’d be all over it. For now, crickets

Anti-Americanism

LeBron James Under Fire For Practicing Golf Swing During National Anthem – It wasn’t the Chinese National Anthem so it doesn’t count. His legacy won’t be good except in stats. He makes himself unlikable.

Flying Sucks

Florida Woman Gets Off Flight. Then She Sees What Happened To Her Carry-On Luggage: ‘Who Deprives Their Child From Using The Bathroom?’ – just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, this happens

2025 Births by Country

All Of The World’s Births In 2025 In One Giant Chart – not good news for the future. A bunch of new terrorists, tech support call center workers, and camel humpers

Rare Earth reserves visualized

Visualizing The World’s Rare Earth Reserves

These are the best countries at reading

These Are The Best Countries At Reading – I have 2-5 books going at all times

PR Losers of 2025

The 3 Biggest PR Losers of 2025 (Poor Tim Walz Only Made the Honorable Mention List!) – There was a lot to choose from

Slaying the Dragon

Florida Man Captured A 153-Pound Invasive Burmese Python And It Looks Like He Slayed A Dragon – it reminds me of a girlfriend who wasn’t as big, but vicious nonetheless.

What book are you reading right now?

What book are you reading right now?

The Hobbit, American gangster, and other tales of New York, and the Bible. It’s the start of the Lord of the Rings series I’ve wanted to read.

It keeps your mind sharp. I’ve noticed a pattern between people who are smarter and more interesting and those who read.

I just finished Martin Luther by Eric Metaxis.

I always have more than one book going

Mid-Day Headlines: Naked Bike Rides, Drone Wars, The Cast Of Ferris Bueller Today, Digital ID Card Psyop…..and more

War

US Spy Jet Circles Russia Amid Drone War Fears

World War II-Era German Bunker Found Beneath Couple’s Home

Literacy

The dawn of the post-literate society…An Intellectual Tragedy

Entertainment

The Cast of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ Then and Now…

Pets

‘Where’s Your Mama?’: Dog Steps In After Deputy Launches Search For Missing Elderly Woman

Europe

Everything Is Going Wrong For Europe’s Liberal Darling President

BMW Shares Post Sharpest Drop In Year After Profit Warning; Citi Flags China Troubles As Potentially “Irreversible” – I’d rather drive a Porsche anyway.

UK

The BritCard Digital ID PsyOp – Covid lockdowns were just a trial run I guess

Health

Americans Want COVID-19-Era Policies to Sunset, Poll Finds – We didn’t want them to start

Terrorism

Another leftist-terrorist arrested for trying to blow up a church in DC where SCOTUS justices were planning to attend – Who’s causing the violence, despite the rhetoric?

Artificial Intelligence

Could AI’s Growing Thirst For Water Usher In Localized Resource Wars 

Antifa

Portland to Deploy Naked Bike Ride Against National Guard – Oh that’s going to scare them, but then I’ve been to Portland, it actually might scare them

What books do you want to read?

What books do you want to read?

I’ve started liking History, so historical fiction not textbooks. I’m starting a series by C.J. Box about the outdoors. If it’s good, I’ll have a whole series to read.

I’m also reading Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

I’m finishing the last book of the Expanse so Sci-Fi has been good to me for a few months now.

The point is I always want to read. I’ve read since I was a young child. I was the only one of my siblings who did. I can escape into my own world this way and people don’t bother you when you are reading.

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

Education

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

illustration of students sitting at desks made up of towering books
Illustration by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

October 1, 2024

illustration of students sitting at desks made up of towering books

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

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This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.

“My jaw dropped,” Dames told me. The anecdote helped explain the change he was seeing in his students: It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.

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What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?

Exercise, both my body and mind. I swim miles, climb mountains on my bike, play golf, Tai Chi, and take my dog for long walks.

I continue to study foreign languages and take college level courses. I read a lot of books also. I’ve always loved that.

This keeps me busy. It’s hard to stay young.

The Ultimate Book List

I don’t know if you are a reader like me, but love books and am always looking for another source of recommendations.

Granted, my tastes don’t always go with the crowd, but here’s the crowd’s pick for a good book list.

My, How Phone Booth’s Have Changed

I used to read the paper there. Now I read the phone. I still say I have to go read the sports page to be nice about dropping a deuce.

Don’t forget that if by chance you use the talking to another person feature on your phone, that you can be heard making bodily noises, or at least the echo that everyone recognizes.

Describing Almost Every Movie In One Picture (1000 words)

With CGI and the video game culture of limited attention span, combined with the need to shoot everything that moves, there haven’t been great movies recently.

You have to tell a story, build up tension, explore a characters mind and motivation to become emotionally involved.

I don’t need to write the cliche because anyone who reads knows it’s true. You can’t cram the development of what is going on inside of your mind into 1-2 hours of someone else’s version of the story.

Besides, in the race to become the most “woke”, most of the protagonists are cast incorrectly.

Enjoy reading. It’s better than wasting time on fake book.

How Do High IQ People Read Books

Note: intelligent people generally read a lot.  There are many ways to read a book.  Authors read for story arc’s, character profile and emotional connection.

Many people learn from textbooks, but for general reading, here is a good list I found on how high IQ people read:

1) Find a personal angle: You need to relate to what you’re reading

2) Get a bird’s eye view: Get the basic outline of the book by skimming through the table of contents (and the rest of the book); try finding a central theme

3) Drum up curiosity: Draft a few “curiosity questions” based on the theme; consider these questions as you read the book

4) Create your own structure: Identify key points in the book and leave space for you to take in-depth notes

5) Record key insights: Take in-depth notes based on the elements you mentioned in Step 4; think about what the “Takeaway Message” is.

6) Review your notes: Now that you have a summary you have created in your own words, it’s now time to review; try to remember the details related to the messages you recorded 10 minutes, 2 days, 1 week after finishing the book.

7) Repeat with another book.

Here is the link to this list.