Month: December 2013
December 16, 2013
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Beyoncé breaks bucketload of album sales records. I bought one.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5839818/beyonce-breaks-us-itunes-sales-record-sells-617000-in-three-days
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Worth Reading: “The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think”
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Worth Reading: “The Double Bacon Extra Cheese Problem”
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Google, Amazon, and NSA are in a three-way competition to see who gets to be Skynet.
December 15, 2013
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Worth Reading: “Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies”
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♫ “Now we can swim any day in November” ♫ pic.twitter.com/LLhmJA34wc
December 14, 2013
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Worth Reading: “You Should Think Twice Before Typing a Period in a Text Message”
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Worth Reading: “Poor? Pay Up.”
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Worth Reading: “Die, selfish gene, die”
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December 13, 2013
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This Beyoncé album is crazy sexy and crazy good.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Frog Whose Young Erupt From Under Its Skin:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-toad-whose-young-erupt-from-her-skin/
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Worth Reading: “The Astronomical Hijinks of the Shortest Day of the Year”
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Worth Reading: “In a Scoreboard of Words, a Cultural Guide”
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December 11, 2013
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Mark Lynas » Time to call out the anti-GMO conspiracy theory
Mark Lynas speech hosted by the International Programs – College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (50th Anniversary Celebration) , and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University 29 April 2013, 2.15pm ET I think the controversy over GMOs represents one of the greatest science…
December 10, 2013
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Artificial Emotions – Issue 1: What Makes You So Special – Nautilus
WhenAngelica Lim bakes macaroons, she has her own kitchen helper, Naoki. Herassistant is only good at the repetitive tasks, like sifting flour, but hemakes the job more fun. Naoki is very cute, just under two feet tall. He’swhite, mostly, with blue highlights, and has speakers where his ears should…
December 9, 2013
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We’ve got 105 people using @slackhq so far and a bunch more to follow.
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Where Uniqueness Lies – Issue 1: What Makes You So Special – Nautilus
I f you dropped a dozen human toddlers on a beautiful Polynesian island with shelter and enough to eat, but no computers, no cell phones, and no metal tools, would they grow up to be like humans we recognize or like other primates? Would they invent language? Without the magic sauce of culture and…
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You can’t link a chart in new Keynote to data from new Numbers. My first real disappointment with the upgrade.
December 8, 2013
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Worth Reading: “Reverse-Engineering a Genius (Has a Vermeer Mystery Been Solved?)”
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Worth Reading: “What Screens Want by Frank Chimero”
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Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer – NYTimes.com
So when the radiologist found an odd, bicycle-spoke-like pattern on the film — not even a lump — and sent me for a biopsy, I wasn’t worried. After all, who got breast cancer at 35? It turns out I did. Recalling the fear, confusion, anger and grief of that time is still painful. My only solace was…
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If football was always a winter sport I might be a fan.
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*swiffers all the things*
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What else haven’t you told me about that’s AMAZING like Swiffer dusters?
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I can’t believe you people didn’t tell me how AMAZING Swiffer dusters are.
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Anything that supports emoji should support a mouseover explanation of said emoji.
👣🙅💢💩
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Hell is other people… when you’re shopping.
December 7, 2013
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The Rolling Stones show that creativity can be REALLY hard work:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn8qlk_naissance-de-sympathy-for-the-devil-one-one-1968_music
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Worth Reading: “Simplifiers and Optimizers, by Dilbert creator Scott Adams”
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Worth Reading: “Leaping Land Fish Has Perfect Camouflage, Is Not a Hoax”
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