Saturday, July 9, 2011

Day 273 - Reunite Pangea

July 7, 2011

Our team totally rocked this thing.  
Tough quiz, requiring us to tap our deep knowledge reserves about, dendrochonology, Korean side dishes, and famous scientists (pictured below).
Name the nerds below.
(Answers after the Linkage)


Linkage:
Lucy Knisley made these amazing Harry Potter Cartoons.  OMGryffindor!!
Seriously, let the page load.  So worth it.

From Grist
By David Roberts
The medium chill involves what economists call satisficing: abandoning the quest for the ideal in favor of the good-enough. It means stepping off the aspirational treadmill, foregoing some material opportunities and accepting some material constraints in exchange for more time to spend on relationships and experiences.



It turns out, though, that satisficing doesn't come easy to us human beings. We have an extremely hard time saying, "okay, this is good enough." Why?


I would watch this movie right now.

Trailer for his big comeback.  Because, as a nation, we only care about trainwrecks.

This is so next level.


Answers
In rows, from top left to bottom right.
1) Dr. Sheldon Cooper
2) Dr. Bunson Honeydew and Beaker
3) Dr. Horrible
4) Terri Irwin
5) Neil deGrasse Tyson
6) Mr. Wizard
7) Dr. Ellie Saddler (Laura Dern)

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