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"‘FitchTheHomeless’: Greg Karber protests Abercrombie’s ‘exclusionary’..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:58:32 -0400

“‘FitchTheHomeless’: Greg Karber protests Abercrombie’s ‘exclusionary’ practices by handing out the company’s clothes to homeless people”

- Abercrombie and Fitch’s stock prices tank amidst CEO’s pin-headed ‘plus-sized’ PR faux-pas | Mail Online

columbusdispatch: Want to find a farmers market in Ohio? We...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:02:19 -0400

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questionall: MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:21:32 -0400

questionall:

MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts. Inspired by how analog electronic circuits function, the researchers created synthetic computation circuits by combining existing genetic “parts,” or engineered genes, in novel ways.

The circuits perform those calculations in an analog fashion by exploiting natural biochemical functions that are already present in the cell rather than by reinventing them with digital logic, thus making them more efficient than the digital circuits pursued by most synthetic biologists, according to Rahul Sarpeshkar and Timothy Lu, the two senior authors on the paper, describing the circuits in the May 15 online edition of Nature.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-analog-circuits-cells-logarithms-square.html#jCp

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Tue, 21 May 2013 11:12:23 -0400

Spoon - Got Nuffin (XX Merge) (by MergeRecords)

Teenager invents revolutionary device which charges a cell phone within 20 seconds | Mail Online

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:03 -0400

Teenager invents revolutionary device which charges a cell phone within 20 seconds | Mail Online

rollingstone: We ended up with an eight-hour movie of Arrested...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:42:00 -0400

rollingstone:

We ended up with an eight-hour movie of Arrested Development where the pieces do kind of come together. Not only was the show told out of sequence, it was shot out of sequence. Half of the stuff is on green screen. There are scenes where there are two characters talking to each other. On one side, it’s Jason Bateman in July, and on the other side it’s Portia in November. It was these crazy, crazy things where everybody had to say, “Wait, she hasn’t gone to that party, so she wouldn’t have that makeup on, therefore … “

Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz spoke with us about the two-year odyssey to revive the show.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 08:21:23 -0400

How Humans Will Evolve Over the Next Million Years

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:18:12 -0400

How Humans Will Evolve Over the Next Million Years

"The Times also revealed other tidbits from the book, which is set to be released Tuesday. •..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:29 -0400

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The Times also revealed other tidbits from the book, which is set to be released Tuesday.

• Jackson’s interest in Zen picked up after he met a practicing Buddhist, who was a construction worker and helped build his house in the 1970s.

• Jackson’s words to Jordan after he showed up in the coach’s office in 1995 hoping to return to basketball after a failed attempt at a baseball career: “Well, I think we’ve got a uniform here that might fit you.”

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- Phil Jackson compares Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant in book - ESPN

"The talk he was supposed to give at the Church was about bullying, and Butler said the Pastor is..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:37:51 -0400

“The talk he was supposed to give at the Church was about bullying, and Butler said the Pastor is exemplifying a form of bullying by trying to get him to apologize for his congratulations to Collins.”

- Ex-Packer LeRoy Butler loses church appearance over Jason Collins tweet | SI Tracking Blog – Tracking MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, and NCAA On Twitter

"ESPN commentators Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann enjoyed making light of the alliteration in his..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:01:16 -0400

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ESPN commentators Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann enjoyed making light of the alliteration in his name and would always take notice of Trickle’s finish, regardless of his placement, according to WCNC-TV.

‘No sports figure Dan I had fun with took it more graciously. In fact, gratefully,’ Olbermann tweeted on Thursday.

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- NASCAR legend Dick Trickle commits suicide at 71, calling police beforehand to instruct them where to find his dead body | Mail Online

Rob Delaney: Auction to see one of my NY shows, drink free booze, hang out with me, and help someone out

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:14:46 -0400

Rob Delaney: Auction to see one of my NY shows, drink free booze, hang out with me, and help someone out:

robdelaney:

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The wife of a friend recently suffered a brain injury. A cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) rupture, to be specific. It required major brain surgery and continues to require many months of rehabilitation. Her…

americas-liberty: talkstraight: When people don’t understand...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:59:42 -0400

americas-liberty:

talkstraight:

When people don’t understand that the word “arms” refers to all firearms to date and any firearms that may be invented later.

That’s why the Founders used the generic ‘arms’ in the 2nd Amendment and not the specific “musket/flintlock”. Unlike our common leftist, they realized that technology and advancements in “arms” was inevitable and ensured that future upgrades in firearms, aka “arms”, would be protected.

If ARs were available back then, you bet your ass George Washington (and the rest) would have had one slung over their shoulder.

This is the dumbest anti-gun argument I’ve ever heard.

"A guy like Titus, I hear people say his career is over. Well first of all, it’s really not..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:38:46 -0400

““A guy like Titus, I hear people say his career is over. Well first of all, it’s really not about his career right now, it’s about his life,” Chicago Bears receiver Brandon Marshall said Monday in an interview with ESPN’s “NFL Live.””

- Titus Young has disorder, needs help, dad says - ESPN

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Sat, 11 May 2013 11:27:43 -0400

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npr: The Alabama Legislature has approved a bill making it...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:21:15 -0400

npr:

The Alabama Legislature has approved a bill making it legal to brew beer at home, a practice that had occupied a legal gray area. If Gov. Robert Bentley signs the bill, as he is expected to do, home brewing will be legal in all 50 states.

— Home Brewing: Soon To Be Legal In All 50 States : The Two-Way

Photo: iStockphoto.com

Related: More of our extensive beer coverage. — tanya b.

npr: Upon rereading the book recently, I took special note of...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:56:49 -0400

npr:

Upon rereading the book recently, I took special note of Gatsby’s spending habits. He’s described as a wealthy man, but he’s still living a very tony lifestyle for someone who made most of his money bootlegging. One over-the-top party, yes. But an over-the-top party every weekend? Even hedge-funders don’t live like that.

So I pulled every nugget from The Great Gatsby related to Gatsby’s personal wealth and income, and every passage that detailed his spending, and — with the help of some experts — tried to re-create a historical ledger that might have shown the state of Jay Gatsby’s fortune, if he had been a real person and not a figment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination. It turns out that, far from accumulating vast stores of wealth, Jay Gatsby might have been spending beyond his means.

— Was the Great Gatsby Broke? — Daily Intelligencer

"Saying that “we are not barbarians, we bury the dead,” the police chief of Worcester, Mass., on..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:52:43 -0400

“Saying that “we are not barbarians, we bury the dead,” the police chief of Worcester, Mass., on Wednesday appealed for someone in authority to clear the way for the body of Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev to be buried.”

- Police Chief: ‘We Are Not Barbarians;’ Bury Bombing Suspect : The Two-Way

Related story: In Boston, A Rare Rejection Of The Dead

(via npr)

hclib: An exhibition of works by landscape photographer Chris...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:50:41 -0400

hclib:

An exhibition of works by landscape photographer Chris Faust opened Tuesday, May 7th in the Cargill Gallery on the 2nd floor of the Minneapolis Central Library. The exhibition features the cyanotype photographs of scenes along the upper Mississippi river by the late 19th century photographer Henry Peter Bosse juxtaposed with contemporary photographs by Faust. A number of additional photographs of the river by Faust are are included. Several works by Mark Twain and related maps and images from the Library’s collections will be featured with the Faust exhibition. The exhibition runs through June 22nd.

A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!! //PepsiCo drop Lil Wayne as Mountain Dew spokesman for comparing civil rights icon's murder to a sex act in rap song | Mail Online

Sat, 04 May 2013 07:45:50 -0400

A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!! //PepsiCo drop Lil Wayne as Mountain Dew spokesman for comparing civil rights icon's murder to a sex act in rap song | Mail Online