Have you ever seen such a thing? If not, go to Glacier National Park.
Is new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer being set up to fail?
As the first pregnant woman to lead a major company, her appointment was hailed as a huge step toward gender equality in corporate America. However, others see her rise as part of a depressingly familiar pattern known as the “glass cliff,” a term coined by academics a few years ago to describe a phenomenon in which women are more likely to be named the head of a company when it is struggling.
Wilmington beer week begins!
The media is biased. Not in the way that people think it is, but it’s certainly biased towards tension, it’s biased towards surprise. And so, there might be some kind of bias that leads us all towards a result that is counterintuitive and exciting.
—Radiolab host Jad Abumrad, who dropped by last week to talk about the Decline effect, which is when results from scientific experiments become less and less replicable over time. (via onthemedia)
(Source: onthemedia.org, via nprfreshair)
centerforinvestigativereporting:
A new infographic from the Project on Government Oversight looks back at the 46 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read their companion post for a list of “5 Things the Public Wouldn’t Know Without FOIA.”
If a reporter doesn’t believe it, you probably shouldn’t either. We earn a living separating fact from fiction. #partylikeajournalist
Potato chip and pecan cookies in the background. Chocolate sugar cookies in the foreground. I like to bake when I need to think.
“Absolute truth is a very rare, and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
Next book. Just started it. Reading concurrently with Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
npr:
It’s the epic quest of campers everywhere: How do you roast that marshmallow just right? As part of our Summer Science series, NPR turned to a fire engineer for some professional guidance: The Perfectly Toasted Marshmallow
This will come in handy when we camp this summer at Glacier National Park.
Spent today working on my chocolate chip cookie recipe.
