Hey! Your Book Review Sucks! (1)
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Having just read two great articles about book reviewing, it felt appropriate to make this the next, “Hey!” blog entry. Joanna Young and Joyful Jubilant Learning ask what do you look for in a book review and Lillie Ammann reviews The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing. Bad Quotes These quotes tell the story of what not to do in a book review: Now that this book is here, I can’t imagine not having it. My ...
Keith Olbermann Has Opinions on Prop 8 (1)
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Last night Keith Olbermann made the case for same-sex marriage in California and condemned the voters who voted "yes" on Prop 8.
That’s Why We Need Managers! (But Only a Few) (2)
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I recently saw the movie Gomorra (based on the best-selling book “Gomorrah” by Roberto Saviano). It tells the raw and harsh story of people who live their lives inside and alongside the mafia. The movie makes it painfully clear what happens when government fails to guarantee people’s freedom and safety. In an anarchistic society, freedom and safety are merely things that you can acquire, like cars, houses, iPods, and Obama t-shirts. You can buy them, ...
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Hey! Where’s the Contact Info? (1)
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I believe I’m a resourceful person. I try to find answers on my own through support pages, FAQ, research, search engines, and other resources. But we can’t find everything we need. We may need to contact people who have the information or the knowledge stored in their brain cells or on the computer’s hard drive. A Story… a Story… I visited several large sites in need of reaching someone. They had no contact information whatsoever. ...
Terrorists try to infiltrate UK's top labs (5)
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Dozens of suspected terrorists have attempted to infiltrate Britain's top laboratories in order to develop weapons of mass destruction, such as biological and nuclear devices, during the past year. The security services, MI5 and MI6, have intercepted up to 100 potential terrorists posing as postgraduate students who they believe tried accessing laboratories to gain the materials and expertise needed to create chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, the government has confirmed. It follows warnings from ...
A bolt from the Blue Brain (1)
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Seed Magazine has got video of a great talk by Henry Markham, the director of the Blue Brain Project which is developing the world's largest simulation of networks of individual neurons in an attempt to understand the large scale dynamics of the brain. Their ambition is to be able to run a simulation on the scale of the whole human brain within a decade. If you want a good summary of where the ambitious project ...
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