British author Robert Penn has ridden a bicycle almost every day for the past 36 years. He owns six bikes — for summer riding, winter riding, everyday commuting and everything in between. But not one was exactly right. Penn needed the perfect bike.
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Bike-Mad Author Finds ‘Happiness On Two Wheels’
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Facebook May Not Be So Friendly For Those With Low Self-Esteem : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
They complain a bit more than everyone else, and they often share their negative views and feelings when face to face with friends and acquaintances. Researchers wondered whether those behavior patterns would hold true online.
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Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them : NPR
Every habit-forming activity follows the same behavioral and neurological patterns, says New York Times business writer Charles Duhigg. His new book The Power of Habit explores the science behind why we do what we do â and how companies are working to use our habits to market products to us.
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/05/147192599/habits-how-they-form-and-how-to-break-them
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How Fibonacci Introduced The World To Numbers : NPR
To carry out their calculations, merchants in the early 13th century used an abacus or a system called finger reckoning. Commerce changed when Leonardo of Pisa â known today as Fibonacci â published the first arithmetic textbook. Mathematician Keith Devlin talks about the history of arithmetic and his new book "The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution."
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/12/139579620/how-fibonacci-introduced-the-world-to-numbers?ft=1&f=1007
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The Price Of Putting ‘Your Brain On Computers’ : NPR
The average person today consumes almost three times as much information as what the typical person consumed in 1960, according to research at the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132369113/the-price-of-having-your-brain-on-computers
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Brian Greene: A Physicist Explains ‘The Hidden Reality’ Of Parallel Universes : NPR
It is possible that there are many other universes that exist parallel to our universe. Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe, explains how that’s possible in the new book, The Hidden Reality.
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Gold and the Periodic Table of the Elements : Planet Money : NPR
The periodic table lists 118 different chemical elements. And yet, for thousands of years, humans have really, really liked one of them in particular: gold. Gold has been used as money for millennia, and its price has been going through the roof.
Why gold? Why not osmium, lithium, or ruthenium?
We went to an expert to find out: Sanat Kumar, a chemical engineer at Columbia University. We asked him to take the periodic table, and start eliminating anything that wouldn’t work as money.
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How to Be a Productive Procrastinator : NPR
Why do today what you can do the day after tomorrow? Procrastination expert Timothy Pychyl and self-professed "structured procrastinator" John Perry discuss the latest research on this type of behavior and how to prioritize what’s really important.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91432804