And so do you. Losing just 30 minutes of sleep per day may promote weight gain and adversely affect blood sugar control — ScienceDaily.
we often over-estimate medicine
But exercise, diet, sanitation and vaccination are BO-ring!
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Amazing Marketing Secrets: The two-for-the-price-of-a-half Quantity Discount
OK, first of all, I still don’t know why people who view The Musubi Murder are also interested in banana slicers and butter warmers, rather than, I don’t know, other murder mysteries?
But second of all, what is this marketing wizardry? People will pay extra not to have two banana slicers in the house?
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Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat
“Sorry, Miss Pfaff, I didn’t mean to gush. But I do love Alice Mongoose!”
“It’s true,” Emma said. “Molly’s a huge fangirl. She wore her Alice the Mongoose t-shirt till it got all full of pukas, and now she sleeps in it.”
“It’s Alice Mongoose, Emma, not Alice the Mongoose. It’s not Peter the Rabbit, right?”
Marshall murmured something and steered Miss Dorothy Pfaff away from us and toward a canapé-bearing waiter.
With her hatbox and steamer trunk all packed and her employment letter in hand, Alice Mongoose was looking forward to her first grownup job on a Hamakua sugar plantation. Imagine her shock when she learned that her job was to kill rats!
Alice was not a killer. She knew that this was not the job for her. She disembarked and, carrying her hatbox and dragging her steamer trunk, went to look for a place to stay.
The first friendly creature she met was Alistair Rat. Fortunately, Alistair was nearsighted and too vain to wear spectacles, so he did not realize that Alice was a mongoose. Rather than run away in terror, Alistair invited Alice in for tea.
Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat became neighbors and best friends, and had adventures together on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
Criminals and TV networks hate this one weird trick #DST
Because we are close to the equator, our daylight hours don’t vary much. Honolulu has less than a three hour difference between the longest and the shortest day of the year. Because of this, someone decided that it’s not worth the effort for us to reset our clocks every six months. We don’t observe daylight savings time in Hawaii. (Neither do Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or Arizona).
That doesn’t mean that we can ignore the time changes, of course. We have friends, family and colleagues on the mainland, and it won’t do to accidentally ring someone up at eleven p.m. when you meant to call at ten.
Changing clocks and keeping track of time differences is a hassle. And getting out of work only to drive home in the dark is depressing. Crime drops during daylight savings months, as criminals prefer to operate in the dark. Golf courses and other outdoor recreational facilities benefit from the extra hour of evening light. So why not make daylight savings time permanent?
Well, for one thing, morning light is good for us. And television networks don’t like DST. People tend to go outside when it’s light, and stay in and watch TV when it’s dark out. (Of course Netflix and other digital options mean that this might be the least of the networks’ problems.)
Read more about DST on National Geographic’s website , or check out Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time
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Honest reviews appreciated (and here’s where to leave them)
Thanks to those who have listened to or read The Musubi Murder. Here are some quick links to leave reviews, if you’ve finished The Musubi Murder and haven’t reviewed it yet. No spoilers please!
Goodreads / Amazon / Powell’s / Audible / iTunes
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Attractive Students Score Lower on Standardized Tests
I think I’ll stay out of the comment threads on this one.
EDIT: The HBR post seems to have disappeared, and my Google-Fu is not strong enough to find the original article. Does it have anything to do with the hide-from-aggregate-feeds tag?
EDIT2: Found the original article.
Frankie Bow’s first novel, THE MUSUBI MURDER , is available at Audible.com, Amazon.com, and iTunes.
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Too-engaging lecturers can breed overconfidence
“Eloquent and engaging scientific communicators in the mould of physicist Brian Cox make learning seem fun and easy. So much so that a new study says they risk breeding overconfidence. When a presenter is seen to handle complicated information effortlessly, students sense wrongly that they too have acquired a firm grasp of the material.“
See, I’m just protecting my students from dangerous overconfidence.
BPS Research Digest: Engaging lecturers can breed overconfidence.
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Uh-oh. I just discovered BookBub.
It has three million subscribers and growing. @JimKukral and Bryan Cohen (@bryancohenbooks) of the Sell More Books Podcast have a running joke about all of the free advertising they do for BookBub on their show.
What is it? Basically, it’s an author’s dream mailing list. BookBub sends notice of free or discounted ebooks to its database of eager readers. The catch for authors, and the reason readers love it? They’re very selective about which books they’ll promote. You can’t just go in waving your money at them and expect that they’ll promote your ebook.
At this time, I don’t have the option of participating as an author. I won’t have an ebook out for a while, and when I do, any price promotions will be at the discretion of my publisher. So I’ve been watching BookBub’s increasing popularity with sort of a distant interest, admiring their focus and discipline (how tempting it must be to increase income in the short term by accepting more books!)
Well, today I thought I’d see what it was like to be on the other side, and signed up to be on BookBub’s mailing list. It took about ten seconds. And then I had a look at all of the ebooks on offer.
Holy kazoo.
There are so many books. Books with hundreds of five-star reviews. Books with awards.
Many of them are free. And I can download them RIGHT NOW.
So yes, I should be writing, or, um, doing my day job. Instead of downloading books like this and this and this and this and this. And more, much more. Hours and hours of free reading pleasure.
For the record, I’m not goofing off. I am researching promotional strategies in the publishing industry.
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Congratulations to A.M., winner of the first Goodreads giveaway of The Musubi Murder
I just ran my first giveaway on Goodreads.
Giveaways are great for readers: click a button, and next thing you know, a free book might show up in your mailbox.
They make it really easy for authors too: I choose which book, how many, what countries I’ll ship to, and when to run the contest; they pick the winner and send me the mailing address; I mail out the books.
Following Catherine Ryan Howard’s guide to GR giveaways, I ran a short promotion and listed only one copy. Readers in the US, Canada, Great Britain and Australia were eligible to enter.
Congratulations to A.M, who was the lucky winner chosen from 815 entries. A.M. hails from the Great Plains, so I hope The Musubi Murder provides a bit of welcome tropical atmosphere.
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