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September 14, 2013
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Are U.S. Carriers Really Enthused About BlackBerry 10? – News & Opinion
There’s a major disconnect between what BlackBerry is saying about U.S. carriers’ enthusiasm for its platform, and what the carriers themselves are saying. Unless this gets cleared up, BlackBerry 10 could be headed for an even weaker launch than Windows Phone saw here in the U.S. BlackBerry didn’t…
September 13, 2013
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The Lab Accident That Led to the Discovery of Supertasters – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
A cloud of chemicals. One researcher detects a smell. The other does not. What happens next? Science. A food laboratory from 1935, though sadly not the one in the story (flickr/ University of Washington ). Like I always say, there are two kinds of people in this world: normal tasters and super…
September 12, 2013
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There’s More to Life Than Being Happy – Atlantic Mobile
"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness." In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when his camp was liberated, most of his…
September 11, 2013
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Rebecca Coriam: lost at sea | World news | The Guardian
The Disney Wonder, from which Rebecca Coriam (right, top) vanished in March. All her parents Mike and Ann have been told is that the investigation is ‘still ongoing’. Photographs: AP; Chris Thomond (2) T he Port of Los Angeles, 23 October 2011. At the Goofy Pool on deck 9 of the Disney Wonder , the…
September 10, 2013
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The plural of personal is social – confused of calcutta
There was a time in my life when everything I would consider “business” was also personal. As many of you may know, I was born in Calcutta nigh on fifty-five years ago. I stayed there till 1980. There were no supermarkets in Calcutta in those days. For most things you walked down to your local…
September 9, 2013
September 8, 2013
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A Martian Dream: Here’s What the Red Planet Would Look Like With Earth-Like Oceans and Life – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic
Cool art project RT @m_m_campbell What if Mars was covered with oceans & life? Intriguing: http://t.co/jlk9f0aA by @beccarosen
September 7, 2013
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George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year – NYTimes.com
“It would be so interesting if we could stay like that,” Saunders said, meaning: if we could conduct our lives with the kind of openness that sometimes comes with proximity to death. He described a flight from Chicago to Syracuse that he was on a little over 10 years ago. “We were flying along, and…
September 6, 2013
September 5, 2013
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The Blessings of Atheism – NYTimes.com
Anthony Burrill IN a recent conversation with a fellow journalist, I voiced my exasperation at the endless talk about faith in God as the only consolation for those devastated by the unfathomable murders in Newtown, Conn. Some of those grieving parents surely believe, as I do, that this is our one…
September 4, 2013
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Messing With Time: Why The Flash is in Hell « Measure of Doubt
January 27, 2013 by Interfering with time can really make a mess of things. We’ve all thought about what might happen if someone travels in time – think movies like Back to the Future, Primer, or Terminator. But let’s take the question to the next level: what if instead of changing position in time…
September 3, 2013
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Hello Sailor! The Nautical Roots of Popular Tattoos | Collectors Weekly
Traditional tattoo designs, like anchors, swallows, and nautical stars, are popping up on the arms and ankles of kids in every hip neighborhood from Brooklyn to Berlin, Sao Paulo to San Francisco. Yet these young land lubbers probably don’t even know the difference between a schooner and a ship,…
September 2, 2013
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said, ‘Once Upon a Time’ – NYTimes.com
Illustration by Tom Gauld Good morning. My name is Steve Almond. I’ll be your narrator for today. I felt duty bound to introduce myself because the following essay is actually about narrators, and it begins with what we in the narrating business call a “triggering anecdote.” About 10 years ago, in…
September 1, 2013
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Want an Audience? Listen Carefully | Digital Dorr
Want an audience? Listen carefully. http://t.co/QhIfSyLk @chrisdorr unpacks my notion of "micro-listening"
August 31, 2013
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Why no one’s listening to a Walkman – FT.com
This month, my family is obsessed with small, white, beautifully designed plastic gadgets. The reason? A few weeks ago, my oldest daughter received an iPod Touch in her Christmas stocking, while her sister got a docking station for her iPod. They are now so besotted with these presents that they are…
August 30, 2013
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Shane Carruth’s ‘Upstream Color’ is a trippy, sci-fi take on the forces that bind us together | The Verge
Nine years ago, Shane Carruth won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for Primer , a complex science fiction tale about the ramifications of time travel. Famously filmed on a $7,000 budget, Primer went on to gain a cult following for its incredibly strong and incredibly twisty plot (spoiler: this is as…
August 29, 2013
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Outlining in Reverse – NYTimes.com
Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. In my experience, one of the surest ways to kill the creative energy of a work of fiction at its inception is with an outline. The very word takes me back to fourth-grade English class, with all those confusing Roman numerals and capital letters.…
August 28, 2013
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Zócalo Public Square :: How Doctors Die
Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could…
August 27, 2013
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The DJ in American Culture: Resonant, Misunderstood » Sociological Images
The DJ in American Culture: Resonant, Misunderstood Oliver Wang PhD on January 22, 2013 As a sociologist who happens to DJ — or is that the other way around? — I’m always curious to see how DJing is depicted in popular culture and advertising. Ever since the 1970s, when the disco craze helped push…
August 26, 2013
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Cambrian Explosion of Everything « Petervan’s Blog
“The Cambrian explosion was the relatively rapid appearance of most major animal life forms, accompanied by major diversification of organisms. Before, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organised into colonies. Over the following 70 or 80 million years the rate of…
August 25, 2013
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Better Than Human | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do? It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that—in slow motion—is what the industrial revolution did to the workforce of the early 19th century.…
August 24, 2013
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Bill Murray Profile – GQ January 2013: Celebrities: GQ
Default This Guy Could Be President That is, if the president were a comedian, acclaimed actor, and beloved personality who’s become famous for crashing kickball games, prank-calling his friends’ wives, and busting into the karaoke rooms of gobsmacked (and delighted) constituents. And yet now here’s…
August 23, 2013
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Mike Kaplan: Beyond Category: 2001 and The Master
"Movies as interdimensional as Kubrick’s don’t happen upon us too much anymore." — David Thomson, Sight & Sound "What’s immense and perpetually restless, shifting to the eye and absorbing to the mind? The ocean. The human spirit…. The Master ." — Stuart Klawans, The Nation Forty five years ago…
August 22, 2013
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An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance? : The Salt : NPR
Thousands of years ago, a mutation in the human genome allowed many adults to digest lactose and drink milk. iStockphoto.com Got milk? Ancient European farmers who made cheese thousands of years ago certainly had it. But at that time, they lacked a genetic mutation that would have allowed them to…
August 21, 2013
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Why Does Music Move Us So? – Phenomena: Only Human
“Only human.” It’s a downer of an idiom, used to convey the inevitable transgressions and inadequacies of our species. He cheated on his wife with a supermodel, but come on, he’s only human. No, she can’t write three blog posts a day and Tweet every hour and read historical biographies in her spare…
August 20, 2013
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BBC Column: when you want what you don’t like | Mind Hacks
My BBC Future column from Tuesday. The original is here . It’s a Christmas theme folks, but hopefully I cover an interesting research area too: Berridge, Robinson and colleagues’ work on the wanting/liking distinction. As the holiday season approaches, Tom Stafford looks at festive overindulgence,…
August 19, 2013
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’ dares us to expect the unexpected: Book review – latimes.com
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’ dares us to expect the unexpected The author offers bold new ideas on how to benefit from strife, but his huge ego can get tiresome. (Random House ) Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House: 544 pp., $30 Nassim Nicholas…
August 18, 2013
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Which Is There More Of: Kindness Or Unkindness? A Christmas Accounting : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Wonderful @rkrulwich on how Good just barely beats out Bad in the long run. http://t.co/sjxjvMTl
August 17, 2013
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BPS Research Digest: How to kill an earworm
If earworms – songs that play in your head – drive you crazy, you’ll welcome clues for how to eradicate them that come from a new study by psychologists at Western Washington University, USA. First – and I realise this doesn’t sound appealing – try to avoid songs that you like. The new research…
August 16, 2013
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Postscript: Robert Bork, 1927-2012 : The New Yorker
Robert Bork, who died Wednesday, was an unrepentant reactionary who was on the wrong side of every major legal controversy of the twentieth century. The fifty-eight senators who voted against Bork for confirmation to the Supreme Court in 1987 honored themselves, and the Constitution. In the…