Results tagged “coffee” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack
Valdis Krebs points to some more research that confirms the Allen Curve works.
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Anjo Anjewierden is getting Settled into his new position. They have an interesting arrangement for the coffee machine that enhances knowledge sharing.
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Among other things, editing Wikipedia entries is apparently a soft addiction.
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Remember my invitation for Working solo, together? Harold Jarche has pointed to Jerome Martin's Cappuccino U, which describes the idea in more detail.
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More fun for Friday. Soy Latte? I guess these quizzes don't always get it right.
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The cappuccino conquests is a research program about the spread of Italian coffee, particularly espresso drinks, in the last 50 years.
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The New Scientist Breaking News provides this one: "Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded." The research shows that caffeeine makes people more likely to change their mind when presented with contrary arguments.
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"Then I moved to Seattle, and started drinking more coffee."
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This AP story has made the rounds in the last few days. "Some coffee drinkers risk a real jolt" because they a genetically predisposed to retaining caffeine in their systems, and the caffeine plays havoc with the heart.
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I like coffee, so "Coffee: A Dark History" by Anthony Wild was a pretty sure bet as a gift. This book gave me lots of information to impress the people at my local coffee roaster as well as make sad about the "dark history" of the coffee trade that survives to this day.
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The front page of today's Chicago Tribune has a report from the RSNA's annual meeting on "The tall and the short of why caffeine works."
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In case you missed the important news , U of Scranton Prof. Joe A. Vinson (no relation), says coffee "has more antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet."
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How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? It would take 116 shots of espresso or 80 cups of drip coffee to kill me off.
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Ben Hammersley suggests that the first blogger was Richard Steele, an 18th century writer, who wrote frequently and drank lots of coffee. I love the allusion to coffee creating fueling the writing of essayists and bloggers.
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Johanna Rothman, who I don't read enough, gives about the best explanation of the importance of coffee stations in the workplace. When businesses get into money-crunch mode, it is so easy to look on these kinds of amenities as costs because their value is difficult to articulate in terms that budget-minded managers can hear.
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Ed Vielmetti finds The Coffeepot Song by Anne Dodson on her album, Almost Grown. "What I want is a proper cup of coffee..."
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Sharing a table seems to inspire conversation, whether it is coffee or food or even a hookah at the table.
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The University of Chicago and Fox and Obel offer a two-hour course entitled "Coffee Makes You Think."
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There is a fellow who is attempting to visit every Starbucks on the planet.
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Can one really get "good" coffee at Krispee Kreme? The Tribune thinks so.
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A McKinsey Quarterly article on the difficulty coffee-growers are having in the current market.
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