July 2010
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The Truth About The Jones Act And The Oil Spill:... →
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Americans don't know how to die →
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Almost all these patients had known, for some time, that they had a terminal condition. Yet they-along with their families and doctors-were unprepared for the final stage. “We are having more conversation now about what patients want for the end of their life, by far, than they have had in all their lives to this point,” my friend said. “The problem is that’s way too...
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Google has Your Back, Can Remotely Remove Android... →
A little creepy, but I’m willing to trust google on this one. I think security takes priority over privacy in this situation, especially since youre going to have all sorts of credit card accounts and other risky information on the phone.
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scans_daily | "Very Good Dogs" →
A comic from the point of view of dogs from a certain glorious graphic novel
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Acid Boy on the Behance Network →
Acid boy, acid boy
Plays with acid like a toy
he will burn, all the dicks
Lots of protons, in the mix
Look oooout, its acid boy!
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Spray-on Skin Offers Fast Healing for Burns :... →
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Human bite stronger than apes' - Australian... →
New studies show that contrary to common opinion, humans in fact have a stronger bite that both modern ape cousins and early homonids.
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India unveils world's cheapest laptop | World news... →
$35 open source ipad. Still wish they’d both have stylus capability, though.
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How ships are launched. [VIDEO] →
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Homeless man breaks into abandoned bar, begins... →
anyone else think they should at least let him keep them money?
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For the First Time, a Full-Sized Helicopter Makes... →
helicopter that plans its own route, lifts off, flies, and lands all without human intervention.
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Robo-Baywatch: Autonomously Patrolling Robot... →
robot lifeguard. pretty rad. looks a little seal shaped though… i dont know how safe taht is.
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Remarkable Space Saving Furniture - Pogpog →
Wow, unbelievably space-efficeint furniture. And it all looks fantastic. I seriously want some of this.
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the twinge of sadness that there’s no frontier left, that as the last explorer trudged with his armies toward a blank spot on the map, he didn’t suddenly remember his daughter’s upcoming piano recital and turn for home, leaving a new continent unexplored so we could set its mists and mountains aside as a strategic reserve of mystery, if only to answer more of our...
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Babar Ali, 16, Creates Free School for Poor... →
The measure of a great individual is not having a lot to give, but giving what they do have.
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Abortion not used as birth control | Adelaide Now →
studies show that the majority of women who seek abortion were on contraceptives when they got pregnant and even those that werent often had reasons not to which did not include an intention to get pregnant.
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CPR instruction card →
stuff everyone should know
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James Thurber, "The Owl Who Was God" →
modern fables. i like it.
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Police use ice cream music to embarrass teen... →
So brilliant…people should do this more often
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Superheroes and Villains Try to Out-Emo Vampires →
Sad comic book characters
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Taylor Mali: Speak with conviction. [VIDEO] →
A poem about speech
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China: Texting, typing begin to replace elaborate... →
To be honest, I’m not sure calligraphy will survive the modern age. Maybe if tablet computers become super cheap and useful, but even then it will never be as fast as typing on romanized (or other short alphabet) keyboards.
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Texting and typing are replacing the elaborate strokes that make up written Chinese. And when it comes time to jot down a few words, more Chinese...
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Bruce Lee's screen test for The Green Hornet.... →
Bruce Lee explains Kung Fu. Black and white film. He’s kind of a dick, isnt he?
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WatchAn economist talks about the various studies on development in Africa and what seems most promising
Mirror Years | Futility Closet →
We are one of the few generations to enjoy the privilege of two palindrome years 1991 and 2002
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If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others? -... →
The question of how university professors should deal with the spread of ideas from the classroom
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Nick Patrick: Did Americans in 1776 have British... →
Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
The answer surprised me.
I’d always assumed that Americans used to have British accents, and that American accents diverged…
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What Happened to Studying? →
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They come with polished resumes and perfect SAT scores. Their grades are often impeccable. Some elite universities will deny thousands of high school seniors with 4.0 grade point averages in search of an elusive quality that one provost called “intellectual vitality.” The perception is that today’s over-achieving, college-driven kids have it — whatever it is. They’re not...
