If you find yourself dragging, and the coffee is merely a delicious distraction, maybe the problem is a little more interesting: lack of clarity!
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If you find yourself dragging, and the coffee is merely a delicious distraction, maybe the problem is a little more interesting: lack of clarity!
In case you don't realize it, I drink a lot of coffee. Several people on Twitter pointed to a LiveScience article on "10 Things You Need to Know About Coffee."
A number of people on Twitter excitedly mentioned the Boston Globe summary article on coffee, Good to the Last Drop by Judy Foreman, their regular Health Sense columnist. It summarizes a boatload of recent studies that, taken together, suggest that coffee is good for you. Even decaffeinated, in some cases.
Anjo Anjewierden is getting Settled into his new position. They have an interesting arrangement for the coffee machine that enhances knowledge sharing.
Among other things, editing Wikipedia entries is apparently a soft addiction.
I have been wondering if there are mapping tools that let non-technical folks plot bunches of stuff on a map and either save it or ship it to someone. Of course there are. Matthew Hurst points to Ask City, and I also played with Batch Geocode. Many others exist.
Remember my invitation for Working solo, together? Harold Jarche has pointed to Jerome Martin's Cappuccino U, which describes the idea in more detail.
More fun for Friday. Soy Latte? I guess these quizzes don't always get it right.
The cappuccino conquests is a research program about the spread of Italian coffee, particularly espresso drinks, in the last 50 years.
The New Scientist Breaking News provides this one: "Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded." The research shows that caffeeine makes people more likely to change their mind when presented with contrary arguments.
This AP story has made the rounds in the last few days. "Some coffee drinkers risk a real jolt" because they a genetically predisposed to retaining caffeine in their systems, and the caffeine plays havoc with the heart.
I like coffee, so "Coffee: A Dark History" by Anthony Wild was a pretty sure bet as a gift. This book gave me lots of information to impress the people at my local coffee roaster as well as make sad about the "dark history" of the coffee trade that survives to this day.
The front page of today's Chicago Tribune has a report from the RSNA's annual meeting on "The tall and the short of why caffeine works."
In case you missed the important news , U of Scranton Prof. Joe A. Vinson (no relation), says coffee "has more antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet."
How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? It would take 116 shots of espresso or 80 cups of drip coffee to kill me off.