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I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You – Clive Thompson – NYTimes.com
I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You – Clive Thompson – NYTimes.com Interesting article, but wish it had addressed attention span and how the brain processes information in the “always on” state...
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Observatory – Marijuana Ingredient May Fight Bacteria – NYTimes.com
Good for fabric, good for food oil and seeds, good for medicine, and now good for fighting bacteria? When will the government stop caring so much about THC and give the country access to this versatile...
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Official Google Blog: Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
This is awesome. Last year when I went back to school and took some advanced history classes, I found the process of accessing historical newspapers to be painful in the extreme. Holding libraries have...
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NYC, Tenements and the Environment
My apartment in the east village is in a tenement building. It’s on the top floor (5th, walkup), and I’ve been an environmentalist since my teens, so I’ve often felt intense guilt about my place. The...
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Truth in Advertising?
Even Jessica Alba, named sexiest woman in the world more than once, isn't immune to retouching. I, like many women, find the airbrushing of the female form in popular media to be, well, basically an...
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Socially Responsible Business and Better World Books
A lot of people who know me through WordPress don’t realize that I used to be a hippie activist who worked for non-profits and wanted to save the world. Socially responsible business is something I...
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RIP Dave Brubeck
In junior high band, we played Linus and Lucy. My high school band teacher was a jazz clarinetist, and he liked Dave Brubeck. As a teenager I bought the CD of the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack....
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Meat Makes the Planet Thirsty – NYTimes.com
Good article in the New York Times about the relationship between agriculture/cattle and water resources. Yet another good reason to give up eating slaughtered animals! It’s seductive to think that we...
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