Tired of clickbait articles with headlines like "Three skills to help...", "Nine traits of well-loved...", "Five signs you have...", etc.

Media, please stop using "Lone Wolf" as a term for solo-terrorists. It makes them sound cool and nothing should promote, glorify, or encourage what they do.

“Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That’s agribusiness.”-- Nicholas Kristoff, The New York Times

If humans grew at the same rate as today’s chickens, a human would weigh 660 pounds by the age of eight weeks. -- Poultry Science

Gold medals aren’t made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination and a hard-to find alloy called guts. -- Dan Gable

60 percent of all online purchases are made between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Skype users make an average of 50 billion minutes of calls per month.

How something starts is crucial in how it develops.

Half of the US population will be over 50 by 2018, according to the US Census Bureau.

Please help us evaluate the quality of the survey you recently received by completing the attached quality survey.

What makes you great?  What would make you greater?

Water needed to produce 1lb of hamburger meat = Water you need for six months of showers

"Feeding food to animals and then eating the animals is kind of like heating your house during the winter by burning wood outside"  - Moby

Applying for a visa is my least preferred activity.

You feel the way you think

Mutton chop sideburns will be the next facial hair trend after men get bored of beards and perma-stubble.

“Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice.”

"New York pulls you in and embraces you even while punching you in the face"

"Music is what feelings sound like" - a blind pianist

Men's Journal: A meticulous study of 73,000+ Americans shows that going veg will add about 10 years to your life. http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/health/go-vegetarian-live-longer-20140717

WSJ: US cow’s milk consumption has dwindled for decades. You know about fat content & animal abuse, most don’t know it contains blood & pus. http://online.wsj.com/articles/americas-move-to-soy-hobbles-dairy-1405729869

When someone is nice enough to put a cup of water out for stray cats don't drop your cigarette butt in it! >:0

Don't just impact "it" -- be part of "it"

Do we seek out experiences because we want them or because we want to have them in order to commodify them?

There are more mobile phones than toilets in the world.

People who write fiction have to be good. People who write non-fiction have to be good and correct.

When I see a Ferrari drive by in Singapore I think: "Thank you for paying four times the price of what that costs in Italy and keeping my tax bill low."

Small beneficial changes turn into big improvements over time

Peter Dinklage: Face your Food

Women aged 55 and above are the fastest growing group on Facebook -- 900% growth per year.

Unleash Your Inner Wolverine

Fresh from seeing the latest installment of the X-Men movie franchise, you may think this article is about how to become so muscular and veiny that your skin resembles a leaf.  It's not.  This article is about maximizing your physical experience to enrich your overall life.

What makes Wolverine so appealing isn't his claws, it's his healing factor.  With a healing factor like his, you could rapidly become an expert in any physical pursuit.  You could throw yourself into intense training and your muscles could recover immediately.  You would be able to build muscle memory and progress to more advanced levels quickly.

I've been practicing Taekwondo consistently for 14 years.  A few days ago I was attending a regular training session with the Singapore National Taekwondo Squad, the team I’ve been training with after moving to Singapore.  During sparring rounds, my ankle connected with my opponent's elbow as he was blocking his kidney.  After that round the pain in my ankle grew to such a level that I had to sit out the rest of the practice.  I couldn't train the next day.  With Wolverine's healing factor, I wouldn't have been hampered at all.  I could fight and train at 100 percent intensity at all times.  Imagine the progression of an athlete who never had to slow down because of any strain or injury!

Top athletes train on the verge of injury and often push that boundary in order to maximize improvements.  Although normal humans don’t have Wolverine’s healing factor, our bodies do heal well.  It encourages me not to worry about injury and to throw myself fully into my sport.  Whatever happens, I can bounce back reasonably quickly.

I'm not saying be reckless.  Only the real Wolverine and a few others could face Magneto head on.  You could end up in hospital or worse.  I'm also not saying be reckless while being careful, because that's contradictory.  My advice is that, along the continuum of carefulness and recklessness, to push yourself towards intensity.

Engaging intensely in physical pursuits will help with work-life balance and life satisfaction.  While your hobby hours will likely never top work hours until retirement, the little time you have for hobbies can be more impactful and rewarding if you engage more intensely.  If you are doing physical training, you will get the results you want faster, you will release more endorphins, and you will improve in skill faster.  The gain in effectiveness will increase your satisfaction and sense of mastery, which is great for self-esteem.  Tough training helps you destress and can help sharpen your focus and efficiency in your work hours.  Finally, working out intensely is not just good for your body and mind.  I find that when my muscles scream at me, it’s like a purifying acid bath for the soul.

Maybe over time this Wolverine approach will make you more superhero-like in your bravery, too!

People are seldom resistant to their own ideas.

Two million Americans suffer from antibiotic-resistant infections each year causing 23,000 deaths directly and many more from complications

If you’re tired of Amazon ads prodding you to buy items you’ve searched for but not purchased, just search for things you already own.

I've seen more public displays of affection in one day in Buenos Aires than in nine months of living in Singapore.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
- Bruce Lee

It takes 109 gallons of water to make a stick of butter and 90 gallons of water to make a cup of Greek yogurt

Meat Makes the Planet Thirsty

Do the job you are paid for now, not the old job you are comfortable with doing.

"I'm sorry" is so much better than "apologies."

Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/scientists-sound-alarm-on-climate.html?_r=0  Animal agriculture produces more emissions than all transportation

Don't run around with solutions looking for problems. Focus on your priorities.

I have 4 national identities. Galifianakis asking Obama which country he supported in the Winter Olympics didn’t initially seem stupid to me.

Jewelry, other than a watch, that can actually do something! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1761670738/ring-shortcut-everything 

Puberty now begins at 7.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4530743.stm. How long till Gillette comes out with kiddie razors?

"Last" is my favorite word. No word energizes me like “last.” When yelled by my sparring coach, "last” shows me light at the end of the tunnel of a long series of drills.

On the bus this morning I gave my seat to a mother and her twin infants. "Say thank you to uncle," the mother said. I'm getting older.

I prefer writing over editing.

Facial Hair Transplants Growing Amid Hipster Beard Craze, Doctors Say

The better you get, the simpler everything gets.

Well-designed training drills to help you on Valentine's Day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvT_GYwhIcU

Qualcomm predicts there will be 22 internet-connected devices per US home by 2020

There is no verbal escape route. An apology also requires new thought and behavior. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/too-many-sorry-excuses-for-apology/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

The worst time to begin developing ideas is when we desperately need one

Who needs caffeine when you have Lunar New Year drums and cymbals going off throughout the day? #SingaporeLNYspirit

I applaud CVS Caremark's decision to halt tobacco sales. "Tobacco products have no place in a setting where healthcare is delivered" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26051519

Map of Lunar New Year travelers in China, updated hourly using people's mobile phone location data.  http://qianxi.baidu.com/  (hundreds of millions travel to visit relatives)

On average, a rape is recorded/reported in India every 22 minutes (BBC).

Dissipation-driven adaptation of matter  https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/

Found a "vagitarian" restaurant along the route between Phuket Town and Patong. Passed it too quickly on the bus to take a photo. It looked like it was selling food but this is Thailand after all.

Real men don't buy women. #Thailandreflections

Fulfillment is greater than enjoyment

Thank you Run Run Shaw for awakening my passion for martial arts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-25618414

Why eat one but not the other? http://business.financialpost.com/2014/01/02/wal-mart-stores-inc-yanks-donkey-meat-off-the-shelves-in-china-after-tests-show-it-contained-fox/

Everyone's into social media these days!  Sharks use Twitter to warn swimmers: http://news.sky.com/story/1187066/australia-sharks-use-twitter-to-warn-swimmers

Scientists Turn Algae Into Crude Oil In Less Than An Hour