February 2012
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“Either way, a complex and fascinating woman created a powerful organization that has given girls and women a century of exciting, if sometimes controversial, opportunities. And cookies.”
—Review of Stacy Cordery’s Juliette Gordon Low in The Boston Globe
Are You As Busy As You Think?
Laura Vanderkam confronts the myth of our 60 hour work week and offers some tips for saving time every day.
- Keep a time log…tracking time keeps us from spending it mindlessly or lying to ourselves about what we do with it.
- Be honest. While Americans claim to sleep six to seven hours per night, time logs show we sleep more than eight.
- Change your language. Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels.
Check out the full Wall Street Journal article for more!
The Prius Driver’s Conundrum
“In his incisive and doggedly counter-intuitive new book, The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse, [David] Owen gently dismantles the foundation of standard environmental behavior with a series of succinctly turned arguments that, in addition to being presented with considerable wit and self-deprecation, lead us to the conclusion that ecological salvation will ultimately be found in tightly packed cities where mobility is minimized, living space is constrained, and the myriad gadgetry designed to reduce the individual carbon footprint is rendered obsolete by sheer virtue of human density. In essence, the opposite of the way Americans typically live.” (Freakanomics)
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Congratulations to PSB Speaker Steven Dau! →
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PSB Speaker Steven Dau, author of The Book of Jonas, has been included in the Barnes and Noble ‘Discover Great New Writers’ Spring Selection, which highlights extraordinary and new literary talent seasonally. Click on the link and read about Dau’s book as well as the other authors who have been nominated!
'The Weird Sisters' - PSB's Eleanor Brown (NPR Interview) →
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Have you been hearing about PSB Speaker Eleanor Brown’s new book The Weird Sisters? Or maybe you’ve already read it? Either way, this short interview with NPR Books staff Liane Hansen talks with Brown about the Shakespearean connections in her novel and the three “weird” sisters whose father is a Shakespearean academic who routinely recites poetry as a form of parental advice. Click on the link and listen in!
