I can give you every popular diet in four lines. Ready? • Eat more greens. • Eat less saturated fat. • Exercise more and burn more calories. • Eat more omega-3 fatty acids. -The 4-Hour Body I picked for the 4-Hour Workweek because I thought Timothy Ferriss was the same Timothy Ferris who wrote The Whole Shebang-not quite. The 4-Hour Workweek was fun and silly and about as useful as any other self help book. The first couple of pages of the 4-Hour Workweek said you should start a business that makes five hundred dollars a day-and then he spends…
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Great Philosophers Who Failed At Love
Article first published as Great Philosophers Who Failed At Love on Technorati. Andrew Shaffer has created small love bios of 37 philosophers-from the ancients like Plato and Socrates to more modern love misfits like Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. From celibates to seemingly endless lines of lovers, the great philosophers offer an interesting view of sex, love, and people who think too much. Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love is a slim volume of only 192 pages, with each philosopher rarely getting more than three pages and a portrait. It’s a fast read and the portraits show a group of…