January 2013


That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think – NYTimes.com

Please keep your flipping cats indoors.  In a report that scaled up local surveys and pilot studies to national dimensions, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States — both the pet Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it — kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat.

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A domestic cat with a European rabbit. Domestic and feral cats are significant predators of a wide range of prey species, including rabbits. Photograph by James Morton.

via That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think – NYTimes.com.

6 Great Bands Get Their Own Beer Labels

Any concertgoer will agree, there’s no beverage that pairs better with live music than an ice-cold beer. After all, we tend to make our best doe eyes at a tall glass of IPA or while listening to our favorite bands play.  Paste decided to imagine a half-dozen mashups of some of our favorite bands and the beers that would pair best with them. As always, please enjoy responsibly.

via 6 Great Bands Get Their Own Beer Labels :: Paste.

Steve Jobs Isn’t The Only Kind Of Artist Leader – Forbes

We need creative leaders in business. The lifespan of large companies will continue to shrink unless they learn to reinvent themselves. The lack of creativity is a problem — a 2010 IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the number one leadership competency of the future – but what are we doing to address it? Unlike the Flynn effect, in which IQ rises with each successive generation, creativity scores among U.S. children have been falling since 1990.

via Steve Jobs Isn’t The Only Kind Of Artist Leader – Forbes.