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Four NYU students with over $100K in funding think the answer is “Yes.” Their project is called Diaspora, yet they aren’t going to start coding til their done with school this summer. Another possible alternative is OneSocialWeb, though its name is horrible name and it has a poor intro video. OSW’s mission is “creating a [...]
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This is a really cool concept idea for the old Post Office building in downtown Chicago: Turn it into a crypt! john ronan architects | the old post office.
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WSJ.com has an article about the workout routine of my fiancée’s brother’s girlfriend. She is, shall we say, “intense!” What’s Your Workout with Tonya Shaw
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Goose bumps. We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot from Pale Blue Films The World Would Be Better If Everyone Watched This Video – Pale blue dot – Gizmodo
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Cellphone users frequently drive themselves to distraction while operating cars, and all too often end up in traffic accidents. But a select few multitask behind the wheel with extraordinary skill, a new study finds. A study of 200 people found that 1 in 40 can do this, so it’s way safer to assume that YOU [...]
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Values are an area of human knowledge and experience that is magnetic: it attracts debate but also repels thought. Sam Harris very carefully spells out why it is completely insane to keep science out of the realm of moral values: Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But [...]
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It occurred to me recently that the staying power of the term “hipster” is starting to irk me — almost as much as the people it describes. There were hipsters before trucker hats were a thing, right? Previous generations must have had to deal with people that have the same flippant attitude toward history and [...]
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Why this guy (and people like him) aren’t our policy makers I’ll never understand. This speech is inspiring because its grounded in science and tells us how much better we can be without beating us over the head with our failures: Pop sociologist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has honed in on a profound new [...]
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Just watched part of a speech about love by Biological Anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, PhD. She is apparently responsible for Match.com’s system for, well, matching people. This system puts people into 4 categories, much like the ancient humours system or a simplified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. But unlike most personality types, her groupings are based on [...]
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Some Facebook users are so addicted to instant gratification and so clueless about how to use a browser that if an article tops facebook.com in a Google search they CAN’T GET TO facebook.com! A huge number of people apparently prefer to search for their Facebook login page–rather than type it in as a URL–that they [...]
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