This week’s variety hour, my assortment of links scavenged from the interwebs, includes a grammar tip, some savvy business lessons, snarky humor and news on my favorite foods (including chocolate and bacon). Enjoy!
Business
- Insight After Five Years In Retained Executive Search Industry. Lars Leafblad shares some words of wisdom.
- How Not To Come Across As A Stalker during Your Interview. It always makes me super uncomfortable when people scroll back a bit too far–and this explains why.
Manners, Need For
- Fend Off Trolls, Bots and Jerks With the Empathy Test. I don’t like captchas. They make me feel old. But if we have to have them, this is a pretty good one.
- Bridezilla’s Crazy E-mail to Bridesmaids Goes Viral. Wow. Just…wow.
Freelancing
- Let’s Get Together. An interview with David Hochman with tips for freelance writers.
- How To Be the Happiest Freelancer On Your Block includes more tips from Hochman.
- I’m A Social Media Rockstar. Someone I met at a recent networking event told me to tell people I was a distiller of content rather than a writer, because I’d sound more interesting. I think this parody explains why I wouldn’t do that. (And I think I’m plenty interesting already, thanks.)
- Grammar Girl: Less Versus Fewer. A grammar tip I learned this past weekend.
- List of Shimerians Who Have Published A Book. I’ve never written a book of my own, but have been published in two anthologies. Apparently, there are many many book authors at my alma mater. Here’s hoping I’ll one day be among them.
Food
- Eat Chocolate; Win the Nobel Prize. I haven’t looked at this study closely yet, but any excuse to eat chocolate is okay with me!
- Is Organic A Scam? Nutrient Differences is Chris Kresser’s look at the latest research.
- The Nitrate and Nitrite Myth: Another Reason Not to Fear Bacon. Chris Kresser is on a roll!
Fitness
- Beginner Mistakes – How To Fail At Your Fitness Goals. Gold Medal Bodies spoke to JC Deen, Jon-Erik Kwamoto, Dan Ogborn, Sol Orwell, Vic Verdier, and me to find out what some common errors beginners make when trying to get in shape.
- Pain Relief Postures is the web version of a piece I wrote about Alexander Technique in the magazine Energy Times.
- Dumb Weightlifting Questions and snarky answers, by Greg Everett.
- Weekly Women’s MMA Wrap-Up. My weekly column, for those who follow women’s mixed martial arts.
Health
- How To Stop Hospitals From Killing Us. Very important.
- Testosterone Increases Honesty, Study Says. So what does that tell you about the liars?
Politics
- Big Bird’s Breakout Moment. Featuring the best slideshow ever.
- Barack Obama is Tired of Your Shit. While will be your new ring tone?
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