Sunday, September 03, 2017

Amazon and Father's Day

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’
 – By Jerry Lewis

No Dad joke: Father's Day now too 'political'

Study: 69% Of Aussies Think Father's Day Is A Corporate Sham!

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SCIENCE: Study: Drinking four cups of coffee daily lowers risk of death. “The findings back up a pair of studies published earlier this year touting the benefits of drinking coffee. One of the studies found coffee was linked to a lower risk of death due to heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease.”

 Retracing Willa Cather's Steps in the South of France | Literary Hub
“No books have ever been written about Lavandou, no music or pictures ever came from here, but I know well enough that I shall yearn for it long after I have forgotten London and Paris,” she writes. “One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as if to fortune and fame.”

An accent in “élite,” a diaeresis in “reëmerge.”The New Yorker style, arbitrary and peculiar, somehow overshadows the substance of the  writing  


Ask Not for Whom the Doorbell Tolls. They Won’t Answer It. - WSJ.
“Electronic communication supplies some feelings of connection, but studies find it does not equal face-to-face interaction for emotional closeness or mental health,” says Ms. Twenge, whose book “iGen” is about how smartphones may contribute to an epidemic of anxiety and unhappiness in young people...



  • Yaël break

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Apple Iowa Jobs:Tim Cook speech reveals $1.3 billion data center CNBC. Resilc: “It will create 50 permanent jobs.”

Amazon Clobbers Grocers With Price Cuts at Whole Foods Wall Street Journal

Amazon to Cut Prices at Whole Foods After Acquisition Closes Bloomberg.