August 2011
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“It was dubstep though that unlocked Blake’s creativity. Beforehand, he’d found...”
– James Blake | Music | The Guardian (via adnanchowdhury)
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“Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the...”
– IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain | VentureBeat
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vegansaurus!: Murder-suicides: not just for humans... →
vegansaurus:
A mother bear in China killed her cub and then herself. Why? To escape the bear bile industry.
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Reports claim she heard her cub crying while workers attempted to poke a milking hole in his little bear tummy. She BUSTED OUT OF HER NEARBY CAGE and scattered the workers. After an unsuccessful attempt to free her cub, she gave him a hug and then strangled him to death. Finally,...
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“WHILE OUR CURRENT style of punishment rests on a bedrock of personal volition...”
– The Brain on Trial - Magazine - The Atlantic (via jwz)
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“This story fits into a national pattern of law enforcement going to great...”
– The Long Con by Brendan Kiley - Seattle Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
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Watch(via Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world | Video on TED.com)
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“IT HAS ALWAYS been crucial to the gourmet’s pleasure that he eat in ways the...”
– The Moral Crusade Against Foodies - Magazine - The Atlantic
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“Kakonomics is the strange — yet widespread — preference for mediocre exchanges...”
– Miscellanea: Kakonomics. Or, the strange preference for Low quality outcomes
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