This is why I love Quora. You get two or more people talking in a focused way to derive the best answer to a question. So easy to use and so much of the information is clickable. It is at times empty reading. At times you get poetry. On June 5, an asker asked “After 25+ years of marriage, what usually causes a divorce?“.
An anonymous user wrote:
I think it’s forgetting why you got married in the first place.
It would have been a long time ago, and so much would have changed, and so much work will have gone into the relationship, you’re tired and can’t remember what the hell you are doing with this person.
It’s a shame, because you are probably more suited to this person than anyone else, you just think something else must be better.
Great answer, isn’t it?
I have some questions for Quora. Why offer anonymity? I dont think you should be allowed to be. And how do you find out who asked a question?
Map: New Orleans has more wifi per pop than Boston http://ow.ly/1dEu1
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Not a huge anime fan, but am excited about seeing US premiere of Oblivion Island, the epic from Japan’s Production I.G. http://ow.ly/1bUqF
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a very quotable #FF @HisHoliness @NietzscheSays @WarrenBuffetquo @confucius140 @stonerthoughts @forbesthoughts
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The conversation every journalist secretly wants to have:
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Word of the Day for Thursday, February 25, 2010
gregarious \grih-GAIR-ee-us\, adjective:
1. Tending to form a group with others of the same kind.
2. Seeking and enjoying the company of others.
True locusts, which are actually certain kinds of grasshoppers, are usually solitary and rather sluggish, but when they are crowded they enter a gregarious and highly active migratory phase.
– Gilbert Waldbauer, Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles
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and I’ve done endless research on safaris within driving distance of Port Elizabeth. No South African I’ve spoken with has terribly nice things to say about Port Elizabeth but we’re volunteering at a school there. Side trips will be many and eagerly anticipated, including ones to the Great Karoo desert-y region, the Garden Route along the coast and the Addo Elephant Park. In my searching I found this extremely moving piece from the NY Times from 2004. It was written by Rob Nixon, an accomplished writer and now an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s about walking in the bush with his schizophrenic brother. I’m going to read his book Dreambirds. Here’s a picture of one place we’re going: the Great Karoo.
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Sal Guatieri, a reliable stats guy at BMO Financial Group noted a recent divergence in the overall unemployment rate and the insured unemployment rate. What does this mean, Sal?
The insured unemployment rate has fallen nearly one ppt since June to its lowest level in 7 months (4.3% of covered employment). Some of the decline simply reflects claimants exhausting benefits rather than getting new jobs. Still, a decline of this size almost always tracks the unemployment rate lower. This is one of the few indicators that argues against another “jobless recovery,”as per the last two. Stay tuned.
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