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March 13, 2015

Yes, I do need that extra thirty minutes of sleep. #Science

And so do you. Losing just 30 minutes of sleep per day may promote weight gain and adversely affect blood sugar control -- ScienceDaily. Be the first to learn about promotions, events, and new releases:

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March 12, 2015

we often over-estimate medicine

But exercise, diet, sanitation and vaccination are BO-ring! Be the first to learn about promotions, events, and new releases:

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March 11, 2015

Amazing Marketing Secrets: The two-for-the-price-of-a-half Quantity Discount

As the number of banana slicers increases without bound, the price asymptotically approaches zero.

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March 10, 2015

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat

“I am not a rat,” Alice Mongoose said. “I am a mongoose.” “That is impossible,” Alistair Rat replied, adjusting his monocle to get a better look at Alice (for he was quite nearsighted). “If you were a mongoose, you would have tried to kill me. Instead of sitting with me and having a nice cup of tea.”

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March 8, 2015

Criminals and TV networks hate this one weird trick #DST

Because we are close to the equator, our daylight hours don't vary much. Honolulu has less than a three hour difference between the longest and the shortest day of the year. Because of this, someone decided that it's not worth the effort for us to reset our clocks every six months. We don't observe daylight savings time in Hawaii. (Neither do Puerto …

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March 5, 2015

Honest reviews appreciated (and here’s where to leave them)

Thanks to those who have listened to or read The Musubi Murder. Here are some quick links to leave reviews, if you've finished The Musubi Murder and haven't reviewed it yet. No spoilers please! Goodreads / Amazon / Powell's / Audible / iTunes Be the first to learn about promotions, events, and new releases:

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March 3, 2015

Attractive Students Score Lower on Standardized Tests

"Prettier students are dumber" post appears on HBR blog, then disappears without a trace

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February 27, 2015

Too-engaging lecturers can breed overconfidence

"Eloquent and engaging scientific communicators in the mould of physicist Brian Cox make learning seem fun and easy. So much so that a new study says they risk breeding overconfidence. When a presenter is seen to handle complicated information effortlessly, students sense wrongly that they too have acquired a firm grasp of the material." See, …

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February 26, 2015

Uh-oh. I just discovered BookBub.

It has three million subscribers and growing. @JimKukral and Bryan Cohen (@bryancohenbooks) of the Sell More Books Podcast have a running joke about all of the free advertising they do for BookBub on their show. What is it? Basically, it's an author's dream mailing list. BookBub sends notice of free or discounted ebooks to its database …

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February 24, 2015

Congratulations to A.M., winner of the first Goodreads giveaway of The Musubi Murder

Congratulations to A.M, who was the lucky Goodreads Giveaway winner out of 815 entries.

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