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Debunking the climate-change denialists' talking-points
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on June 18, 2008
... today? Here's Grist's answer to that, a point-by-point debunking of the climate change "skeptic's" talking points: I. There's nothing happening 1. Inadequate evidence * There is no evidence * One record year is not global warming * The temperature record is simply unreliable * One hundred years is not enough ...
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Healthy Diet May Curb Cancer Genes
via abcnews.go.com by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
... whole grains, legumes and soy products, moderate exercise such as walking for half an hour a day, and an hour of daily stress management methods such as meditation.As expected, they lost weight, lowered their blood pressure and saw other health improvements. But the researchers found more profound changes when they compared prostate biopsies taken before and after the lifestyle changes.
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WordSpy as Collective Intelligence
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Tim O'Reilly on June 07, 2008
I've long been a fan of WordSpy, Paul McFedries' site that features definitions and first use of new words and phrases. It's a great trendspotting tool. The words we use give surprising insight into popular consciousness. Many of them, like junk sleep, silent disco, free-range kid, or Blackberry prayer illustrate new social trends, while others like phantom load or quake lake are...
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Extraordinary People - The Boy who Sees Without Eyes
via Best Free Documentaries by Dmitry Davydov on June 17, 2008
Link of the day - Are you a person the world should know about?Link of the day - Are you a person the world should know about?Ben Underwood lives with his family in the suburbs of Sacramento, California where he attends his local high school. Like any other 14-year-old boy, he loves to play with his friends and chat to girls his age, with whom he seems popular. He looks like any other boy, until...
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Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
I seldom pause to answer criticism of my blog. If I did, I'd have time for little else in the course of the day, and no time for constructive work. But occasionally I'll encounter a particularly well written critique that gives me pause, such as Alastair Rankine's Blogging Horror. Since I feel that Alastair wrote it out of genuine good will, and that his criticisms are sincerely set...
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Do you own trees?
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on June 01, 2008
Today's New York Times reports an astonishing fact: Book publishers wholesale their ebooks to Amazon for precisely the same price as their paper books. Amazon loses money on every ebook for the Kindle they sell because publishers don't discount zero-cost ebooks. Apparently, the publishers don't count the paper, storage, inventory, shredding and shipping expenses in their cost...
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The Future of Food
via Best Free Documentaries by Dmitry Davydov on June 02, 2008
Link of the day - Free $50 Kmart card.Link of the day - Free $50 Kmart card.THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food FrontIn Defense of Food: An Eater's...
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Debategraph
via Joho the Blog by davidw on June 03, 2008
Debategraph.org has ambitious goals. It wants to provide a public, commons-based wiki where we can lay out the great political debates systematically, rationally, and calmly. The tool creates highly structured maps consisting of relatively atomized arguments. (The tool itself is pretty darn cool.)I’m dazzled by it. I’m not convinced that debates can be commoditized the way knowledge can be,...
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TED | Talks | Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes" (video)
via www.ted.com by (author unknown) on June 02, 2008
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive
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Cognitive scientist on optical illusions and seeing into the future
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on June 03, 2008
Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi looks through our eyes into our brains, exploring how our visual system works and why it evolved the way it has. To do that, he digs into optical illusions, the shapes of letters, and even our brain's ability to "see into the future" by generating images one-tenth of a second before they actually happen, thereby avoiding the delay between "seeing" and...
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