August 2012
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“BREAKING: USA wins gold medal in synchronized NBC bashing. Tune in to NBC...”
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“The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we...”
– Vidal
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2012 Olympic gold medals are mostly silver. The... →
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July 2012
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“Mitt Romney has run the closest thing to a policy-free race as any candidate in...”
– David Brooks: Dullest Campaign Ever
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9 Scientists Receive a New Physics Prize →
Physicists are rarely wealthy or famous, but a new prize rewarding research at the field’s cutting edges has made nine of them instant multimillionaires. The nine are recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize, established by Yuri Milner, a Russian physics student who dropped out of graduate school in 1989 and later earned billions investing in Internet companies like Facebook and Groupon.
“It...
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“Possibly, if you cloned a number of people, raised them without any exposure to...”
– Your vocal cords are color blind | The Dish
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Scientists confirm that pop music really is louder... →
From Reuters:
Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.
A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs...
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“Personally, I love what NBC has done with the Olympics.
I always dreamed of living in an era before the Internet, without Twitter or online streaming or live breaking-news updates. And watching the tape-delayed Olympics on NBC, I feel like I’m there.
It’s just like I pictured: I would gather around the large, box-shaped television with my extended family and adjust the rabbit ears, and we...
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“We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by...”
– Wendell Berry, 1968
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“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals...”
– Wendell Berry
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All that you touch. All that you see. All that you taste. All you feel.
All that you love. All that you hate. All you distrust. All you save.
All that you give. All that you deal. All that you buy, beg, borrow, or steal.
All you create. All you destroy. All that you do. All that you say.
All that you eat. And everyone you meet. All that you slight. And everyone you fight.
All...
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“And, in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make.”
– Oh, you know.
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“NBC, which reportedly paid $1.18bn for rights to the London Olympics, is not...”
– Guardian’s Live Olympics Blog
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Mayor Bloomberg: How to Break NRA’s Grip on... →
The wise men of Washington tell us that candidates are silent on guns because to speak out is to incur the wrath of the National Rifle Association. But polls consistently show that gun owners, including NRA members, overwhelmingly support the common sense measures that mayors across the country have been trying to get Washington to pass for years. […]
The NRA is a $200...
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WatchStewart nails Romney for basing his entire campaign on Obama’s out-of-context quote
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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski
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Playboy: Much of the controversy surrounding 2001 deals with the meaning of the metaphysical symbols that abound in the film — the polished black monoliths, the orbital conjunction of Earth, Moon and sun at each stage of the monoliths’ intervention in human destiny, the stunning final kaleidoscopic maelstrom of time and space that engulfs the surviving astronaut and sets the stage for his rebirth...
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“It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the...”
– David Eagleman
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“I – like most Americans – believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an...”
– President Obama, tonight in New Orleans
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Beach House is blooming.
LA City Council unanimously votes to ban all 762... →
Under the ban, medical patients and their caregivers will be able to grow and share the drug in small groups of three people or less.
But the activists say most patients don’t have the time or skills to cultivate marijuana. One dispensary owner told the council that it would cost patients a minimum of $5,000 to grow marijuana at home.
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