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21

May

msnnews:

Microsoft today unveiled its next-generation console called the Xbox One. Check out its exclusive features. 

msnnews:

Microsoft today unveiled its next-generation console called the Xbox One. Check out its exclusive features

20

Dec

bookmania:

Christmas in Shakespeare and Co., Paris (Photo by cupofcoffee)

bookmania:

Christmas in Shakespeare and Co., Paris (Photo by cupofcoffee)

28

Nov

motherjones:

The US Navy is laying off most of its trained spy-dolphins. Here’s a slideshow of cute—and creepy—photos of the Navy program that trains marine mammals as minesweepers and underwater sentries.

#dolphin layoffs

motherjones:

The US Navy is laying off most of its trained spy-dolphins. Here’s a slideshow of cute—and creepy—photos of the Navy program that trains marine mammals as minesweepers and underwater sentries.

#dolphin layoffs

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

Jon Stewart (via usatoday)

FJP: Sums it up about right.

(via futurejournalismproject)

Twitter Fiction Festival Live Event This Saturday

nypl:

If you are a tweeter who likes a good story, join The New York Public Library for the Twitter Fiction Festival Live Event on Saturday, December 1, 2012, 1:00 - 5:00 pm. This live event is great for readers and writers alike and will showcase the Twitter Fiction Festival, which begins today, November 28.

The Festival captures the stories of Twitter users who tell and share stories within 40 characters over a five day period. Selected participants from five different continents will share stories about crime, mysteries, globe-trotting, food, poetry, and much more!

Follow these stories on Twitter at #twitterfiction throughout the week and then celebrate the Festival at Berger Forum this Saturday. Registration is required for this event. Refreshments also will be provided. 

The event is hosted by Twitter, The New York Public Library, Plympton and The Brown Institute for Media Innovation. 

#Twitterfiction

evachen212:

I came, I saw, I conquered @bergdorfs shoe sale inventory of pointy Manolos


#blahniks!

evachen212:

I came, I saw, I conquered @bergdorfs shoe sale inventory of pointy Manolos

#blahniks!

latimes:

Photos of Einstein’s postmortem brain were recently unearthed and offer some interesting insights reported in a journal called, well, Brain:

Among the asymmetries observed by the authors of the Brain article are Einstein’s parietal lobes, where much of the circuitry for visuospatial and mathematical thinking is housed. On the surface of Einstein’s primary motor cortex, an enlarged “knob” is evident in the area where the brain “represents” the left hand: The authors of the study surmised that this is probably the result of Einstein’s early and extensive training on the violin.
The surfaces of Einstein’s visual cortex were found to be particularly dense with folds — evidence, perhaps, of the physicist’s unique talent for closing his eyes and visualizing objects, the authors wrote.
Not so surprising was the finding that Einstein’s prefrontal cortices — the seat of higher reasoning and judgment — were “relatively expanded.”

A more detailed look at the scientists’ findings is available in PDF format.
Photo: Einstein in a 1936 file photo. Credit: Associated Press

#Einstein’s brain

latimes:

Photos of Einstein’s postmortem brain were recently unearthed and offer some interesting insights reported in a journal called, well, Brain:

Among the asymmetries observed by the authors of the Brain article are Einstein’s parietal lobes, where much of the circuitry for visuospatial and mathematical thinking is housed. On the surface of Einstein’s primary motor cortex, an enlarged “knob” is evident in the area where the brain “represents” the left hand: The authors of the study surmised that this is probably the result of Einstein’s early and extensive training on the violin.

The surfaces of Einstein’s visual cortex were found to be particularly dense with folds — evidence, perhaps, of the physicist’s unique talent for closing his eyes and visualizing objects, the authors wrote.

Not so surprising was the finding that Einstein’s prefrontal cortices — the seat of higher reasoning and judgment — were “relatively expanded.”

A more detailed look at the scientists’ findings is available in PDF format.

Photo: Einstein in a 1936 file photo. Credit: Associated Press

#Einstein’s brain

13

Nov

An App that lets diners be chewsy!

Food app combines user reviews, expert reviews, crowd reviews and friend reviews!

newyorker:

Cartoon by Paul Noth. For more: http://nyr.kr/W3YVT3

newyorker:

Cartoon by Paul Noth. For more: http://nyr.kr/W3YVT3

06

Nov

Why Obama?

Via http://my.barackobama.com/25-Reasons

25 reasons from 25 people who are voting Obama:

1. “The Affordable Care Act is saving my daughter’s life.”
Stacey, Arizona

2. “Obama is for the vets. He helped us wind down in Iraq, he’s improved mental health policy with VA benefits.”
Joel, Minnesota

3. “Obama stuck his neck out for us, the auto industry. He wasn’t going to let it just die, and I’m driving in this morning because of that, because of him.”
Brian, Ohio

4. “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”
Joe Biden, Delaware

5. “Supreme Court Supreme Court Supreme Court.”
Andrew, California

6. “Arithmetic.”
Bill Clinton, New York

7. “He cares for the 100 percent.”
Shana, Texas

8. “When Obama came into office, he successfully renewed our country’s place in the community of nations, making cooperation in tackling the world’s challenges possible.”
Willis, North Carolina

9. “The actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid.”
Colin Powell, Virginia

10. “I was really very grateful to him for standing up for those kids who are having a really rough time out there because of their orientation.”
Jane Lynch, California

11. “For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.”
Bruce Springsteen, New Jersey

12. “He has a real plan for rescuing the economy that passes the ‘math’ test.”
Teresa, Virginia

13. “Having someone in office who understands how powerful our voice can be is very important.”
Jay Z, New York

14. “I am voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden because I can trust them to care for the middle class and restore the American dream.”
Steven, Florida

15. “The first measure he signed into law after becoming president was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act — so a female high school counselor or physical education teacher can fight for equal pay for equal work.”
Connie Britton, California

16. “I believe in the America he wants for my grandchildren.”
Nancy, Michigan

17. “We need four more years of repair, of helping the middle class achieve a sustainable economy.”
James Taylor, North Carolina

18. “I’ve watched him fight for our country, stand by the middle class, the working class, the military, the education of our children, universal health care, women, the environment, and matters of national and domestic security.”
Susan, Virginia

19. “The gifted 12-year-old I taught, whose parents were deported and left her here with her grandmother, will be allowed to stay and finish her education. She’s been in the U.S. since age one.”
Jamie, North Carolina

20. “I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics.”
Michael Bloomberg, New York

21. “I have four children who are under 26 and able to stay on my health care plan. That’s been huge.”
Amy, Pennsylvania

22. “He’s fighting to defend and better Social Security and Medicare — because millions of Latino seniors rely on them.”
Cristina Saralegui, Florida

23. “Thanks to the President’s efforts to keep student loan rates low, I can expect to save nearly $1000 as I work to repay my student loans. And I don’t have too many of those, thanks to the Federal Pell Grant program.”
Sam, Minnesota

24. “It’s been wonderful to have President Obama as a champion for access to health care for all women in this country.”
Cecile Richards, New York

25. “Re-electing Barack Obama would lead to a stronger economic recovery than would be the case were Mitt Romney to win on November 6th.”
Jared Bernstein, Washington, D.C.


http://my.barackobama.com/25-Reasons


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