✓ Da li na Novom Zelandu ima previše ovaca?

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• D.C. is worst place for doctors to practice: WalletHub - Washington Times — The nation’s capital is the worst place for doctors to practice, according to a survey released Tuesday that looked at wages, the cost of malpractice and other factors that face a set of professionals who are highly paid and respected, yet reeling from student debt and an ever-shifting landscape.
• 2860 Woodland Dr NW, Washington, DC 20008 | MLS #DCDC506380 | Zillow — 2860 Woodland Drive NW is a noble 1927 stone manor that has been expertly renovated and meticulously refined into an unforgettable residence that dovetails comforting charm and sharp sophistication. The caliber of this home is outstanding and each handpicked detail and finish is superbly appreciated.
• Why You Can't Afford To Buy a House in New Zealand - InsideHook — Increased demand, a housing shortage and an almost COVID-free year have fueled an overheated real estate market

✓ Kako je minijaturni ruski studio napravio igru bolju od svih AAA naslova?

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• Pathologic 2 - Wikipedia — Pathologic 2 (Russian: Мор, tr. Mor, IPA: [mˈor], lit. 'Pestilence') is an adventure game by Ice-Pick Lodge and published by tinyBuild. Originally planned as a remake of the 2005 video game Pathologic, it has been set to be a complete reimagining of the original game. The game is planned to be released in three parts, each one dedicated to the story of one of the three main characters, the Haruspex, the Bachelor and the Changeling. The first part telling the story of the Haruspex was released 23 May 2019.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Wikipedia — The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in the Elder Scrolls series, following 2006's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.
• Journey (2012 video game) - Wikipedia — Journey is an indie adventure game co-developed by Thatgamecompany and Santa Monica Studio, published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and directed by Jenova Chen. It was released for the PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in March 2012 and ported to PlayStation 4 in July 2015. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows in June 2019 and iOS in August 2019.
• Braid (video game) - Wikipedia — Braid is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Number None and considered an indie title. The game was originally released in August 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. Ports were developed and released for Microsoft Windows in April 2009, Mac OS X in May 2009, PlayStation 3 in November 2009, and Linux in December 2010. Jonathan Blow designed the game as a personal critique of contemporary trends in video game development.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Wikipedia — S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person-shooter games series with RPG and action-adventure elements, developed by GSC Game World, Ukraine. Game events take place in the alternative world`s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, present day.

✓ Zašto su Amerikanci zbunjeni zvaničnim preporukama?

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• FDA Authorizes Booster Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Certain Populations | FDA — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to allow for use of a single booster dose, to be administered at least six months after completion of the primary series in:

Epizoda posvećena nedavno preminulom komičaru Normu Mekdonaldu.

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• Preminuo poznati kompozitor i voditelj Minja Subota — Kompozitor, pevač i voditelj Minja Subota preminuo je u 82. godini, objavio je RTS. Mediji su preneli da je umro posle duže bolesti.
• Preminuo Borisav Jović | Nedeljnik — Nekadašnji predsednik Predsedništva SFRJ Borisav Jović preminuo je u 93. godini od kovida u VMC Karaburma, prenosi RTS.
• Norm Macdonald - Wikipedia — Norman Gene Macdonald (October 17, 1959 – September 14, 2021) was a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for his deadpan style.
• SNL Comedian Norm Macdonald Has Died At 61 : NPR — Comedian Norm Macdonald, a beloved Saturday Night Live cast member in the 1990s, has died. His management company confirmed that the 61-year-old had battled cancer for nine years.
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• Nikki Martinez, the "Cancer Queen of Comedy," will make you laugh - and cry - CBS News — A stand-up comedian in Chicago is laughing in the face of cancer. Nikki Martinez first took to the stage five years ago, after she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer and had a mastectomy. Most people wouldn't find much humor in the situation, but Martinez was inspired.
• Norm Macdonald's Moth Joke - YouTube — (Original airdate: 08/31/09) Norm MacDonald talks about taking jokes from his drivers and tells a moth joke.
• Mangrate "No More Dry Meat" - YouTube
• Norm MacDonald Stand Up Comedy @ White House Press Correspondents Dinner 1997 - YouTube — 2019 Remaster of Norm Macdonald performing @ The White House Press Correspondents Dinner in 1997. Comedy History.
• O. J. Simpson murder case - Wikipedia — The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court in which former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald "Ron" Goldman.
• Norm Macdonald Constant Shitting on OJ Simpson - YouTube
• Amazon.com: Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir: 9780812983869: Macdonald, Norm: Books — When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”
• I'm not Norm - YouTube

✓ Ima li u Srbiji dovršene zgrade koja nije već propala?

✓ Zašto plaćati sportistima za osvojenu olimpijsku medalju?

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• Peter Thiel - Wikipedia — Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
• Zero to One - Wikipedia — Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters. It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
• Penzije i nagrade - by Slaviša Tasić - Tržišno rešenje — Nacionalne penzije uvela je vlada DSS-a i DS-a, nastavio SNS, niko drugi ko se bori za glasove ih ne pominje i ja mogu samo da zaključim da ideja ima veliku podršku u javnom mnjenju. A užasna je na nekoliko načina.
• We Can’t Go Back to a Golden Age of Capitalism — Q: One of the main ideas in your book has to do with how, if we narrow our focus on the super rich, we observe that the composition of capital and labor in that class has changed a great deal in the last thirty years. Can you explain that idea?

✓ Zašto su kamiondžije intelektualci američke radničke klase?

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• Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia — The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. The system extends throughout the contiguous United States and has routes in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.
• United States Numbered Highway System - Wikipedia — The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but the roadways were built and have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.
• CB radio in the United States - Wikipedia — CB radio is most frequently used by long-haul truck drivers for everything from relaying information regarding road conditions, the location of speed traps and other travel information, to basic socializing and friendly chatter. CB radio is also frequently used on larger farms for communication between machinery operators.
• The Atomic Trucker: How a Truck Driver "Rebuilt" the Atomic Bomb — A truck-driver with minimal college education, Coster-Mullen taught himself how to build the most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made.
• Square, Inc. - Wikipedia — The Square Reader was the firm's first product. It accepts credit card payments by connecting to a mobile device's audio jack. The original version consisted of a simple read head directly wired to a 3.5 mm audio jack, through which unencrypted, analog card information was fed to smartphones for amplification and digitization.
• Stripe (company) - Wikipedia — Stripe provides APIs that web developers can use to integrate payment processing into their websites and mobile applications.
• OnlyFans - Wikipedia — OnlyFans is a content subscription service based in London. Content creators can earn money from users who subscribe to their content—the "fans". It allows content creators to receive funding directly from their fans on a monthly basis as well as one-time tips and the pay-per-view (PPV) feature. The website has 2 million content creators and 130 million users.
• Substack - Wikipedia — Substack is an online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers.

✓ Zašto je Tim Kuk najbolji menadžer svih vremena?

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• John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (Audio) - YouTube — "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver
• Prljavi inspektor Blaza i Kljunovi - Sunce tudjeg neba (Srbijo) - (Official Video) - YouTube
• Apple's Tim Cook on the Future of Fitness | Outside Online — In an extended interview for the Outside Podcast, the CEO talks about the ways technology can help us lead healthier lives and the benefits we get from ignoring our screens
• This Is How Tim Cook Transformed Apple (AAPL) After Steve Jobs - Bloomberg — Apple Is the $2.3 Trillion Fortress That Tim Cook Built
• Who We Are | GRAIL — We are a healthcare company focused on saving lives and improving health by pioneering new technologies for early cancer detection. We have built a multi-disciplinary organization of scientists, engineers, and physicians and we are using the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS), population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to overcome one of medicine’s greatest challenges.

✓ Zašto je broj i kvalitet društvenih igara eksplodirao u poslednjih 20 godina?

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• Catan - Wikipedia — Catan, previously known as The Settlers of Catan or simply Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as Die Siedler von Catan. Players take on the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop holdings while trading and acquiring resources. Players gain points as their settlements grow; the first to reach a set number of points, typically 10, wins. The game and its many expansions are also published by Catan Studio, Filosofia, GP, Inc., 999 Games, Κάισσα, and Devir.
• Carcassonne (board game) - Wikipedia — Carcassonne (/ˌkɑːrkəˈsɒn/) is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games (until 2012) and Z-Man Games (currently)[1] in English.[2] It received the Spiel des Jahres[3] and the Deutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001.
• Pandemic (board game) - Wikipedia — Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008. Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. The game accommodates two to four players, each playing one of seven possible roles: dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher, operations expert, contingency planner, or quarantine specialist. Through the combined effort of all the players, the goal is to discover all four cures before any of several game-losing conditions are reached.
• Fantasy Flight Games - Wikipedia — Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product (Twilight Imperium) in 1997, the company has been doing business as Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). Since that time, FFG has become one of the biggest names in the hobby games industry, being a marketplace leader in board games and maintaining strong businesses in the card game, roleplaying game, and miniature game categories.[1]
• Cards Against Humanity - Wikipedia — Cards Against Humanity is an adult party game in which players complete fill-in-the-blank statements using words or phrases typically deemed offensive, risqué or politically incorrect printed on playing cards. It has been compared to the 1999 card game Apples to Apples and originated from a Kickstarter campaign in 2011. Its title refers to the phrase "crimes against humanity", reflecting its politically incorrect content.
• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game - Wikipedia — The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing. The first edition extends and modifies the System Reference Document (SRD) based on the revised 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) published by Wizards of the Coast under the Open Game License (OGL) and is intended to be backward-compatible with that edition. The first major revision of the ruleset, Pathfinder 2nd Edition, was released in August 2019.
• Roll20: Online virtual tabletop for pen and paper RPGs and board games — Play games anywhere. Share them with anyone. With Roll20® as your virtual tabletop, your adventures are limitless.
• The Glass Cannon Network | A couple things are gonna happen… — The Glass Cannon Network is a RPG Entertainment Network that endeavors to create captivating epic fantasy, science fantasy, comedy and horror stories accessible to gamers and non-gamers alike.
• Glass Cannon Live! LA - Strange Aeons Session 1 - YouTube — The lovable miscreants behind The Glass Cannon Podcast took their show on the road in October of 2018 to kick off a US Tour at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles.
• TableTop | Geek and Sundry — In this hit show, geek icon Wil Wheaton and a slew of celebrity guests gather to play their favorite board games. Who will win the Trophy of Awesome?

✓ Kako se elektronska pošta pretvorila u noćnu moru svih kancelarijskih radnika?

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• 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders — These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by clicking the title.
• Infinite Regress – How I handle email (which is not how everyone should, but you may find some of these useful) — This is all about work email. I have succeeded in transferring most personal communication to Slack, iMessage, and WhatsApp, with a sprinkling of Skype for the grandparents. The sole holdout is Dad, who insists on emailing me links to Serbian tabloid news, child rearing advice, and recipes.
• Infinite Regress – How I handle meetings (which most certainly is not how everyone should, but again, may be useful to some) — It is easier than ever to organize and attend a meeting, which should scare the living daylights out of anyone who doesn’t organize or attend meetings for a living. It used to be that only middle management had to deal with a series of 90-minute meetings all 15 minutes apart in which they had no specific role, which had no effect on their task list, and which left them no better off than they’d be if they had just read the minutes.
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport — Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep—spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.
• xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
• Hook – Links beat searching — Hook enables you to instantly retrieve the information you need. Whether it’s on the web or in one of your favorite apps, with Hook you don’t need to search. Just click on links to access that email, PDF, task or other item — and get your job done fast.
• Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. — A note-taking tool for networked thought.