Film Recommendations from Louis CK
Film recommendation from Louis C.K.: Greetings my human friend. I am writing to let you know that there is A NEW EPISODE OF Long-Distance Relationship an audio series by me and Blanche Gardin. If you've already purchased the series and want to download the new episode just click here and log in (if you're not ...
Top Economists Study What Happens When You Stop Using Facebook by Cal Newport
Top Economists Study What Happens When You Stop Using Facebook March 1, 2020 In the most recent issue of the prestigious American Economic Review, a group of well-known economists published a paper titled “The Welfare Effects of Social Media.” It presents the results of one of the largest randomized trials ever conducted to directly measure ...
Reflections on the Disconnected Life by Cal Newport
Reflections on the Disconnected Life November 25, 2019 Not long ago, an Australian media professor named Robert Hassan boarded the CGM CMA Rossini, a container ship, at a dock in Melbourne. He had arranged to stay on the ship for its five week passage to Singapore. He brought a handful of books, but no phone, ...
Senator Hawley on Social Media: “addiction is actually the point.” by Cal Newport
Senator Hawley on Social Media: “addiction is actually the point.” June 29, 2019 Photo by Natureofthought. Early last month, Josh Hawley, the newly-elected senator from Missouri, gave a speech about big tech at the Hoover Institute. He made a couple points that caught my attention, such as when he said this: “Social media only works ...
Naval Ravikant, Email, and the Future of Work by Cal Newport
Naval Ravikant, Email, and the Future of Work June 19, 2019 In a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Naval Ravikant referenced economist Ronald Coase’s 1937 paper, “The Nature of the Firm,” which later helped Coase win a Nobel prize. The mathematical details of this paper are dense, but on Rogan’s show, Ravikant summarizes its ...
On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens by Cal Newport
On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens June 1, 2019 Photo by Marketa. I recently received a message from a friend of mine, a young man named Mike. He told me that Digital Minimalism had changed his life. Naturally, I asked him to elaborate what he meant. In response, he listed the following ...
On Monks and Email by Cal Newport
On Monks and Email April 29, 2019 Medieval monks thought a lot about thinking. As University of Georgia history professor Jamie Kreiner elaborates in a recent Aeon article: “Their job, more than anything else, was to focus on divine communication. For these monks, the meditating mind wasn’t supposed to be at ease. It was supposed ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quits Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story. by Cal Newport
AOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story. April 18, 2019 Photo by bruce mars from Pexels Over the weekend, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on a podcast that she was quitting Facebook as part of her efforts to cut back on her social media use more generally. This was big news because the 29-year-old AOC is ...
Is Social Media Undermining Religion? by Cal Newport
Source: Digital Minimalism and God (Or, is Social Media Undermining Religion?) April 9, 2019 Photo by Oliver Sjöström from Pexels Those who know Martin Luther King Jr.’s story well, know that January 27, 1956, was a pivotal date for the young minister. Only one month earlier, still a newcomer in town, King, to his surprise, ...
Digital Minimalism and Ancestral Health (Or, Would Grok Tweet?)
Source: Digital Minimalism and Ancestral Health (Or, Would Grok Tweet?) March 17, 2019 The ancestral health movement argues that over long periods of time, evolution adapts species to their environments. It follows that when it comes to human well-being, we should pay attention to how we ate and behaved throughout the vast majority of our ...
Digital Minimalism for Parents
Digital Minimalism for Parents March 2, 2019 One of the more interesting things about being on the road promoting Digital Minimalism is encountering readers and learning how they’re making use of these ideas. One such group that’s particularly interesting to me is digital minimalist parents. I’m a parent, but the oldest of my three boys ...
Black Friday Deals Excel Sheet
Category Price Store Notes Electronics DVD PLAYERS BLU-RAY PLAYERS LG BP175 Streaming Audio Blu-Ray Player $49.99 Best Buy Doors open 5pm Thursday LG Smart Blu-Ray Player $49.00 Walmart $10 Vudu Credit with Purchase; Black Friday Begins Online Wed at 10pm ET and In Stores Thurs at 6pm LG UBK90 Streaing 4K UHD Hi-Res Audio Wi-Fi ...
Why are Arab American Students Among the Highest GPA Achievers?
Arabs and Arab Americans care the most about their children’s education. Furthermore, education for Arab parents is a very important matter and it takes them a lot of time, money, and effort to help their kids to receive the highest GPA and get the best grades and highest achievers among all students. Source: Why are ...
Mint29 Offers A Fine Dining Experience in the Heart of Dearborn
I had an Amazing experience over great food. The Mint29 salad was very unique and erotodelicious. The Japanese Kobe beef sliders were amazing. The BBQ salmon was perfect. And the chicken sandwich was flirtatious. Service was smooth and fast. Everything was made into perfection. The place is trendy and has a great feel to its ...
10×10 Presents Girl Rising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BJsvklXhYaE#! From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, award-winning Documentary Group, Vulcan Productions and Intel Corporation comes Girl Rising - an innovative new feature film about the power of education to change a girl -- and the world. In theaters March 7th, 2013. Visit girlrising.com to learn how to bring Girl Rising to your local ...
The Gas Station War Zone
I have read before that the Gas Station Attendant job is one of the most dangerous in America. Why do Arabs in Michigan insist on dominating this dirty business? Are their lives cheap enough to be worth $9/hour + 50% chance of death? And why can't Gas Station attendants form a Union to defend their ...
” Beirut, I Love You ” booktrailer for Zena el Khalil
Beirut I Love You is Zena el Khalil’s rollicking yet tender memoir about living in a city that thrives on contrasts and contradictions. This is the story of Zena, a young woman who has fallen under the spell of a city that threatens to engulf her in war, grief and love affairs. In the streets armed militias ...
Harlem Shakes in Dearborn and Some Arabic Ones!
University of Michigan - Dearborn: University of Michigan - Ann Arbor: Wayne State University: Detroit Family: Hilbury Theater: Arab Edition: Another: Saudi: Iraqi Style: Egypt Style: But they got arrested!: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/students-arrested-for-harlem-shake-egypt_n_2748697.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Is Dearborn A City or A Settlement?
What makes a city a city and not a settlement?! A bunch of people living in houses in a large place makes a settlement. In order for a settlement to become a city, things need to happen. A city is where humans build a network of services, activities, and relationships, paint it with culture, literature, ...
City Coffee House … 10 Min Away
Living in Dearborn, is being 10 minutes away from many places, and 20 minutes away from even more interesting places. Don't forget that we live in the 13th largest Metropolitan area in North America, and 11th Largest in America. [Source] Well 10 minutes driving south on Southfield freeway will get you to Allen Park City ...
Dearbon Resident Starts Petition to Make Intersection Safer
Jessica from Dearborn Patch wrote: When most people see a car speeding through their neighborhood, they shake their head and say, "Someday, someone is going to get hurt." But others resolve to try to do something to change it. Dearborn resident Haya Bacharouch is concerned that the lack of stop signs at an intersection in ...
Judge strongly tells attorney he can’t join halal class-action lawsuit
Press and Guide reported: By Joe Slezak Press & Guide Newspapers Twitter: @joeslezak1 She ordered Moughni to turn over a list of those who posted statements about the case, those who “liked” his post and all information in each response, including names and contact information. Macdonald also said she reserves the right to refer Moughni ...
Flip The Pages of Life
In life, we have to flip the pages, and sometimes we have to end a chapter and start a new chapter. The ability to do that is important to survive mentally. If you are not flipping pages or starting new chapters every once a while, then you are not moving .... You are staring at ...
Why Lebanese Love Their Raw Kibbeh And Where To Try It in Dearborn, Michigan
MAUREEN ABOOD wrote in NPR: Growing up, I never knew I was eating raw meat. Or maybe it was just that I didn't think "raw" was something worth noting. I simply knew that kibbeh nayeh was incredibly good. And so I was stunned by a recent spate of salmonella cases here in Michigan – home ...
Federal Authorities Settle Lawsuit From MI Muslim
CAIR-MI today welcomes the resolution of a No Fly List case in which a paralyzed Michigan Muslim was denied permission to fly when seeking medical assistance. In November 2012, CAIR-MI joined Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) President Nabih Ayad during a press conference announcing a federal lawsuit on behalf of Jamal Rizk of Dearborn ...
Dearborn’s Henry Hotel Named Best in State
http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/dearborns-henry-hotel-named-best-in-the-state
UFM-Dearborn Introduces 35 New Student Organizations
http://michiganjournal.org/2013/02/05/um-dearborn-introduces-35-new-student-organizations/ The University of Michigan-Dearborn has made additions to the campus’s student life this year in the form of 35 new recognized student organizations. A variety of new student organizations are on campus, from those based around athletics, community service, religion, and recreation. “I’m very proud of where this campus is heading,” said Fareed Shalhout, ...
Not So Fast: Dearborn Attorney Challenges McDonald’s Halal Lawsuit Agreement
Deadline Detroit reported the following: Some Muslims in Metro Detroit are dissatisfied with a proposed lawsuit settlement by McDonald's in a case involving mislabeled food, Niraj Warikoo reports in the Free Press. They're contesting how money will be divided from a tentative $700,000 settlement over complaints that a Dearborn location sold non-halal chicken advertised as ...
Ramadan, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ramadan.... A lunar month of fasting for Muslims from dawn to sun set...or 20 minutes after sun set! Fasting from what? Well, basically, eating, drinking, fucking, jerking off.... But if you want to hear the whole list... Here some more: Also Fasting from making up shit that God or His Prophets didn't say And fasting ...
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