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Gladwellian "Insult"
nanopolitan —
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Maureen Tkacik does a great job of Malcolm Gladwells brand of pop sociology (with an emphasis on pop) in Gladwell for Dummies . Heres a pretty blunt and devastating summary (buried somewhere in the middle of the piece): In searching for an anecdote or image with which to convey the ultra-absorbency of Gladwells ...2 days ago -
Kelowna rinks hot on the Olympic trail - Abbotsford News
Beijing 2008 Stadium —
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Kelowna rinks hot on the Olympic trail - Abbotsford News Kelly Scott came within a hair of representing Canada at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. Four years later, the Kelowna rink is back for another crack at the world’s biggest curling spectacle. Scott, Jeanna Schraeder, Sasha Carter, and Source: ...4 days ago -
Sexual Attraction, Health and Evolution: Its a Rocky Road
Blogs —
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Which physical characteristics make for attraction? If you perform a quick search for psychology articles (and blogs) on this topic, you will find innumerable accounts of studies telling you how, for example, people with high facial symmetry and particularly average faces are generally considered more beautiful, that ...6 days ago -
Popular Science Magazine ##1-12 January-Decembe 2009 (US), [all issue]
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Popular Science Magazine ##1-12 January-Decembe 2009 (US), [all issue] English | ~104 pages | True PDF | 12 issues | 160.10 Mb(rar) Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, ...6 days ago -
DEVO: GONNA BE A MAN FROM THE MOON
L.A. RECORD —
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The world is now a DEVO song, and so Warner has just reissued two vital early DEVO albums barely containing some of the most annihilating reality ever twined into vinyl. And so L.A. RECORD ’s Dan Collins reissues this vintage interview with Mark Mothersbaugh from the archives of the defunct Ostrich Ink . DEVO ...1 week ago -
Baby and Me Special Edition for the Nintendo Wii has actual doll peripheral - Coolest Gadgets
Nintendo Wii Game and Accessories Review —
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Technabob (blog) Baby and Me Special Edition for the Nintendo Wii has actual doll peripheral Coolest Gadgets Then the baby doll “reacts by giggling, gurgling or crying through the Wii remote”. From there, I would imagine a child can learn the wonders of being a ... New Nintendo Wii ...1 week ago -
Nintendo Wii “Baby and Me” game comes complete with doll-mote - Pocket-lint.com
Nintendo Wii Game and Accessories Review —
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Pocket-lint.com Nintendo Wii "Baby and Me" game comes complete with doll-mote Pocket-lint.com The Wiimote has been strapped to some unusual items in the name of wacky gameplay but this latest concept takes the Wii weirdness to a new level. ... New Nintendo Wii Game Ships With Baby Doll ...1 week ago -
Big questions in the science of the brain
nanopolitan —
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An hour-long tour of some of the big questions in brain science discussed by five leading scientists of the day. Watch it on Charlie Roses show [If that link opens with some other show, go to the archives and choose 29 October 2009. ] This is the first of a 12-part series -- the later episodes will go into the ...1 week ago -
High school teacher suspended after assigning an article on homosexuality in animals
Gender and Schooling —
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Yesterday, Mr. Delong, a 10th and 12th grade Honors English teacher in Piasa, IL was suspended for assigning an article about homosexuality in the animal kingdom to his students. Should teachers ask their students to read about controversial topics? Should we allow parents veto power over the curriculum? The local ...1 week ago -
Mad Science with Theodore Gray
The Mediavore —
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Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT This is one of those interviews that doesn’t have a precisely defined endpoint, but that doesn’t matter because it could be a lot of fun. Theodore Gray joins Steve Scher today on KUOW’s Weekday . Besides his Gray Matter column for Popular Science and his role as ...2 weeks ago -
Don’t be such a scientist!
Sciencebase Science Blog —
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Don’t be such a scientist! It’s the kind of thing I’d expect my sister to say to my face if I’ve gone off on one of my lecture mode conversations about some great discovery, or something some of my artier friends might whisper about me behind my back. Sometimes it’s a personal wish…but then I think of ...2 weeks ago -
The Polymath Project
Honest Toil —
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Gowers and Nielsen offer in the current issue of Nature a report on the online collaboration in mathematics known as the Polymath Project. It is hard to know what to make of it all without delving into the details and trying to understand if there is anything special about this problem which lends itself to ...3 weeks ago -
FBI Facial Recognition Software To Automatically Check Driver’s License Applicants Against Criminal Database
Survival News Network —
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Bringing the “wanted poster in the post office” concept into the 21st century, the FBI has begun using facial recognition software to identify fugitives on North Carolina highways. The software measures the biometric features of thousands of motorists’ DMV photos, matching them against mugshots. When the face ...3 weeks ago -
FBI Facial Recognition Software To Automatically Check Driver’s License Applicants Against Criminal Database
The Gates of Hell —
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Bringing the “wanted poster in the post office” concept into the 21st century, the FBI has begun using facial recognition software to identify fugitives on North Carolina highways. The software measures the biometric features of thousands of motorists’ DMV photos, matching them against mugshots. When the face ...4 weeks ago -
Mexican Coke Cultists
FriendsEAT.com —
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Is it the bottle or is it the sugar? Andy Warhol once said, “A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows it and you know it.” ...4 weeks ago
