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Esther Dyson: "But now machines automate the production of attention-consuming information, which takes our time." http://t.co/h59ecCy
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Lee Smolin: "One may be fooled because there is no ceremony or liturgy, but this is just a sign that what we have here is a true mysticism" http://t.co/5qsvnxa
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Sherman Alexie – Selected Shorts – “Breaking and Entering” – interview – War Dances – 8/28/11 – http://t.co/a7OYxU9
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"The very hugeness of our Universe, which seems at first to signify how unimportant we are in the cosmic scheme, is actually entailed by our existence!"
Via the Martin Rees excerpt in The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.
The most engaging new idea I got from the Dawkins edited collection.
"The very hugeness of our Universe […] is actually entailed by our existence!" Martin Rees in Just Six Numbers http://t.co/3U8oufH
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I've wondered what Meg Scheid was up to since The Cat stopped running. Now I know: St Croix Island — Bangor Daily News http://t.co/DPKWj4d
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Artificial societies – Jonathan Rauch -Seeing Around Corners – Magazine – The Atlantic http://t.co/2HxxJtw
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7 Martin Rees – Size & age of universe re us<div>363 Smolin – Mystery & theory</div><div>273 Per Bak – Self-organized criticality</div><div>115 Niko Tinbergen – Wasps finding their nests</div><div>392 G Gaylord Simpson – Nothing butter</div><div><br></div><div>Missing:</div><div>Knuth</div><div>David Eagleman</div><div>John McCarthy</div><div>c. elegans</div><div><br></div>
Archive for August, 2011
links for 2011-08-28
August 29, 2011links for 2011-08-18
August 19, 2011-
RT @lockerproject: http://t.co/CtjBmiw: @ctide's post on synclets, a simple way to pull data from providers, much more simple than what' …
links for 2011-08-13
August 14, 2011-
Monkeys reject unequal pay Sarah Brosnam & Frans de Waal via http://t.co/vAVWyy7 http://t.co/3GKCCx6
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Monkeys reject unequal pay Sarah Brosnam & Frans de Waal via http://t.co/vAVWyy7 http://t.co/3GKCCx6Monkeys reject unequal pay Sarah Brosnam & Frans de Waal via http://t.co/vAVWyy7 http://t.co/3GKCCx6
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Marzal – The Most Important #Lamborghini That Never Was | Autopia | Wired.com http://t.co/ENokYvs 1967 photos & video Road & Track cover
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RT @davewiner: Cokie's Law vs. Social Security. http://r2.ly/bh2t
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RT @timbray: This one made me smile all over; I spent years & years of my life working on exactly this device: http://t.co/gtoRVTH
links for 2011-08-12
August 13, 2011-
Mildly humorous & entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying litany of #libertarian orthodoxy What Would Libertarians Do? http://t.co/uZdnDuE
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Puccini for Beginners – Striving for #WoodyAllen/#SexAndTheCity #nyc #romcom http://bit.ly/qAMkZP
links for 2011-08-11
August 12, 2011-
"We look at five different types of instability […] in Europe over the period 1919-2009." http://bit.ly/pPC6rk
links for 2011-08-10
August 11, 2011-
#AynRand critique: Alan Krinsky: It Began With Ayn Rand http://huff.to/phBc0C (via http://amzn.to/nG0yQE via http://bit.ly/nnuDIL ~1974)
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#AynRand critique: Alan Krinsky: It Began With Ayn Rand http://huff.to/phBc0C (via http://amzn.to/nG0yQE via http://bit.ly/nnuDIL ~1974)
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#AynRand critique: Alan Krinsky: It Began With Ayn Rand http://huff.to/phBc0C (via http://amzn.to/nG0yQE via http://bit.ly/nnuDIL ~1974)
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Both @nealstephenson (http://t.co/DFANjAx) & Cory @doctorow (http://t.co/LxMIJ7B) riff insightfully off @WaltDisneyWorld
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Both @nealstephenson (http://t.co/DFANjAx) & Cory @doctorow (http://t.co/LxMIJ7B) riff insightfully off @WaltDisneyWorld
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@jeffjarvis http://t.co/d4rO4tV Gutenberg secretive then bankrupt then shares – German article link?
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"We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future." @jeffjarvis http://bit.ly/oSXWp5
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Priorities: "#LePage calls for cuts ‘until it hurts’" — #Maine Politics — Bangor Daily News http://bit.ly/olIBxi
links for 2011-08-09
August 10, 2011-
RT @davewiner: Boston Bike Sharing and the i-lab. http://r2.ly/bdcu
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RT @OReillyMedia: Rich fiction: How technology makes the storytelling process deep+ wide+ tall http://oreil.ly/nEtNex via @guardian #toc …
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RT @FirstWind: If you haven't watched last week's Daily Show on #wind #energy, do it now. Very funny – http://goo.gl/7mgsb #cleanenergy …
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#Offshore Floating Wind Turbines (#ofwt) at #MARIN .nl http://bit.ly/rmw6f3 & @deepcwind #fp7 #ecn #umaine #maine #windturbine #wind
links for 2011-08-07
August 8, 2011-
RT "@writedance: Paradise Lust – By Brook Wilensky-Lanford – Book Review – http://t.co/Reol9v8 HERE IT IS!!!!!"
links for 2011-08-04
August 5, 2011-
RT @timbray: Me on patents: http://goo.gl/9Y8SZ (2010), http://goo.gl/v5xgO (2005), http://goo.gl/JjcDa (2004), http://goo.gl/Ijrki (2004)
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RT @timbray: Me on patents: http://goo.gl/9Y8SZ (2010), http://goo.gl/v5xgO (2005), http://goo.gl/JjcDa (2004), http://goo.gl/Ijrki (2004)
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RT @timbray: Me on patents: http://goo.gl/9Y8SZ (2010), http://goo.gl/v5xgO (2005), http://goo.gl/JjcDa (2004), http://goo.gl/Ijrki (2004)
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RT @timbray: Me on patents: http://goo.gl/9Y8SZ (2010), http://goo.gl/v5xgO (2005), http://goo.gl/JjcDa (2004), http://goo.gl/Ijrki (2004)
links for 2011-08-03
August 4, 2011-
In (Partial) Defense of Obama – Ben W. Heineman Jr. – Politics – The Atlantic http://bit.ly/r20QvN
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