Short story ambitions (3)
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An ode to the short story. The novel is insatiable -- it wants to devour the world. What's left for the poor short story to do? It can cultivate its garden, practice meditation, water the geraniums in the window box. It can take a course in creative nonfiction. It can do whatever it likes, so long as it doesn't forget its place -- so long as it keeps quiet and stays out of the way. ...
Data-mining sucks: official report (11)
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A multi-year National Research Council review of data-mining as a means of discovering terrorists has concluded that this just doesn't work very well, and that it ends up harming and harassing -- and terrorizing -- innocents whose only crime is to have a profile that some database-designer thinks is hinky. The report was written by a committee whose members include William Perry, a professor at Stanford University; Charles Vest, the former president of MIT; W. ...
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Sean said:
This could be a brief 3-minute Loop, bringing viewers up to speed on what has happened...
Brief History of the 21st Century (1)
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"There will be enormous, enormous losses..." (2)
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This American Life gives you Another Frightening Show About the Economy.. The guys who brought us The Giant Pool of Money (previously) explain the credit crunch and why it's so scary. And not in the Halloween fun-to-be-scared sense.
Om nom nom nom (1)
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The Fifties: an invention of Sha Na Na / Scottish Highlanders / Rondald Reagan (5)
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Remember the Fifties? For a certain generation, who could forget those golden innocent days as depicted in shows like Happy Days, Grease and the band Sha Na Na. But it turns out that vision of the 50's is mostly fantasy and never existed, largely invented by a group of Columbia U students around 1969. Teasers:The idea of the Fifties that America still holds — the happy, "greasy" Fifties — was an "invented History." Up until ...
Election Trains (2)
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If the candidates were trains. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
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channing said:
the comments are great too: check out "if the candidates were operating systems"
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Corbie said:
I think the word you're looking for is 'awesome'
Evolving walking shapes (6)
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A mesmerizing video that shows computer generated geometric shapes that have evolved to walk in all sorts of crazy ways. The shapes are generated using the Darwin@Home software. Some of them resemble young children just learning to walk or crawl. The final "beast" is particularly elegant. (link)
Twelve Virtues of Rationality (5)
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The Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. From the top: The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. If in your heart you believe you already know, or if in your heart you do not wish to know, then your questioning will ...
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Esquire: Chuck's wacky "Brief History of the 21st Century." "NOV. 7, 2028: Tom Brady (R-Michigan) defeats Will Smith (D-California) in the race for the Oval Office."Shared by Corbie (20)Contribute commentBuzzFeed - Latest (309) permalink
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