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Five Secret Japanese Tricks to Make Life Better [Book Excerpt]
via Lifehacker by LISA KATAYAMA on June 01, 2008
Editor: Meet io9 contributor Lisa Katayama. When she's not blogging about robots and futurism, she's spreading the word about how to GTD in the most unexpected ways. Here's a sampling of a few clever tricks you'll find in her new book, Urawaza.When it comes to life and getting things done, we like to do things a little differently in Japan. When I break a glass in the kitchen, I...
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FINISH HIM!!!!
via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? by ichctcf on May 30, 2008
FINISH HIM!!!!picture: Hundsstern. lol caption: Cameron » Recaption This
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Essay: Repairing the Damage, Before Roe
via NYT > Most E-Mailed by (author unknown) on June 02, 2008
There are few physicians today who can relate to the “bad old days” before Roe v. Wade. I can.
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The Most Dangerous Species in the Mediterranean [img]
via Digg by (author unknown) on June 02, 2008
Campaign for the Government of Catalunya to keep the Mediterranean Sea clean by Klas Ernflo.
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Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease
via Slashdot by kdawson on June 01, 2008
Ant ssnds in a disturbing report in The Scientist on an imminent threat to worldwide banana production. "The banana we eat today is not the one your grandparents ate. That one — known as the Gros Michel — was, by all accounts, bigger, tastier, and hardier than the variety we know and love, which is called the Cavendish. The unavailability of the Gros Michel is easily explained: it is...
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Why Judy can't add: gender inequality and the math gap
via Ars Technica by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer) on June 01, 2008
Think boys beat girls in math due to innately superior spatial reasoning? Statistics suggest that social conditions play a big role.Read More...
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A lovely video illustrating the magnetic fields that permeate the...
via kottke.org by cliffkuang@gmail.com on June 01, 2008
A lovely video illustrating the magnetic fields that permeate the air in a laboratory. (link)
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Why did they build expensive medieval churches?
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 30, 2008
Bryan Caplan asks (the rest of the post is interesting on other matters):Seeing a bunch of French cathedrals makes me even more skeptical of the claim (made by Larry Iannacconeand others) that people weren't more religious in earlier centuries. Ifpeople weren't far more religious in the Middle Ages, why did they poursuch a high fraction of their surplus wealth into century-longreligious...
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Sunday Secrets
via PostSecret by postsecret on May 31, 2008
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mailin their secrets anonymously on one side of a "sweet potato".-----Email Message-----Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 7:59 AMTo: frankSubject: ifoundyourcameraMy wife discovered a hidden memory stick I had with naked pictures of an old girlfriend she didn't know. I told her I found the memory stick and was going to mail it to...
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Zoologists are studying stray dogs in Moscow, and the ways they've...
via kottke.org by cliffkuang@gmail.com on May 27, 2008
Zoologists are studying stray dogs in Moscow, and the ways they've adapted to city life:Back in the lean Soviet era, restaurants and the now-ubiquitous fast-food kiosks were scarce, so dogs were less likely to beg and more likely to forage through garbage, the zoologists say. Foraging dogs prospered best in the vast industrial zones of Moscow, where they lived a semiferal existence. Because...
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