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7 Most Intriguing TV Shows Coming This Fall | Underwire | Wired.com

What will fill television's black hole after Fringe ends next season? The rash of new shows announced by networks over the past week include a few prime-time contenders that will offer an alternative...

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How to Not Kill a Cyclist - The Morning News

It’s National Bike to Work Day today, and maybe you noticed a lot of cyclists on your commute this morning. If you didn’tand you’re a driverthat’s cause for concern...

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Ridley Scott's New Blade Runner Film Will Be Sequel | Underwire | Wired.com

A month shy of Blade Runner' 30th anniversary, word has come down that Ridley Scott will direct a sequel to the groundbreaking sci-fi film, with original screenwriter Hampton Fancher in talks to...

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Proof That Pinterest Drives Sales, And Its Fans Spend Big

Pinterest users not only buy the products they pin, but spend more on average than their Facebook counterparts, according to new data from Shopify.

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Facebook Acquires Karma

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A Mark So Fine: Joe Henry and You

Photograph by Michael Wilson. In November of 2001, I picked up Joe Henrys album Scar and was stunned by the opening track, a slow blues number called Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation...

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Why Is This Man Laughing? by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Garry Wills AP Photo/Stephan Savoia Mitt Romney laughs while addressing supporters at a campaign rally in Boston, March 6, 2012 Everyone has noticed by now the...

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Improving Writing, Finding Happiness

How do I improve my prose? The poet and diplomat Paul Claudel once wrote, To beware of the adjective is the beginning of style...

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Mad Men's Megan Draper Reads (And Wears) 1966 'Vogue'

Up until this season, the stylish women of "Mad Men" rarely deviated from their set looks...

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Man injured in Longford shooting - RTÉ News

A man has been injured after a shooting incident at a building outside Longford town in the early hours of this morning.

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Corporate criminals gone wild

The maker of the documentary film "Inside Job" has a new book excoriating Wall Street -- and President Obama

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Circle of Presence The New Inquiry

Smartphones pre-empt the possibility of conversation even before we choose to look at them and look away from the person speaking to us.

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Tracking Facebook's IPO Day On Social Media

Zuck's big day, curated by Fast Company writers and editors.

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Twitter Partners With NASCAR For Live Coverage Of All-Star Races

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Good Eats: Meals With A Mission Makes Charity Intimate, Tasty

Gala dinners are too big. How about a smaller donation pool over a home-cooked meal?

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This Week In Bots: Are You Ready To Be More Machine Than Man And/Or Woman?

All the recent advances in robots that grip onto asteroids, walk like dogs, and replace damaged human limbs. Enjoy!

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Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age

Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS...

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Clayton Christensen's Personal Quest To Help You Measure Your Life

Some choices leave us satisfied at the end of the day, some leave us satisfied at the end of our lives--and they aren't always the same...

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The Listening Machine Converts 500 People's Tweets Into Music | Underwire | Wired.com

The project turns social media into music, with the Britten Sinfonia orchestra performing pieces controlled by the content and pacing of 500 individuals' tweets.

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Joel Stein, The World's Best Self-Promoter, On How To Be The World's Best Self-Promoter

Joel Stein wrote a book, "Man Made: A Stupid Quest For Masculinity," and went to outrageous lengths to promote it...

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How To Encourage Learning By Making

Avoiding mistakes is impossible. But what if we accept that risk is inevitable and focus on making smart mistakes instead?

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In 8 Years, Facebook Changed All We Do Online

In the storm that is Facebook's IPO, we pause to take note of the way the social network has transformed the way we live now.

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GameStop At A Crossroads

The game industry is entering a digital future...

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Who Is Christwire Really Mocking, Anyway? | Splitsider

Personality-driven reporting has become the rule rather than the exception. On Fox News and MSNBC, breaking stories come with a built-in perspective, keeping vi

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Steal Across America Tour Diary #6: Minneapolis

Had a short, fun time in Minneapolis!

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Free Stuff! Finally, A Deals Site That Doesn't Suck

More business-friendly than Groupon, and more respectful of user data than Facebook, Merchant Exchange is a one-stop shop for rewards programs. It'll save you money without creeping you out.

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5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity

If your team spends its days asking for permission, taking hours to complete expense reports or time sheets, attending redundant meetings, or answering irrelevant e-mails, youve got a problem.

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Why I Still Write Poetry by Charles Simic | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Charles Simic A still from Chess Fever (1925), a film by Shakhmatnaya Goryachka When my mother was very old and in a nursing home, she surprised me one day...

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Review: Awesome Action Barely Keeps Battleship Above Water | Underwire | Wired.com

Battleship starts like Top Gun, morphs into Transformers and ultimately ends up somewhere in the neighborhood of Independence Day.

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Close To Zero

The problem with a moral vocabulary about politics and policy is that it not only makes politicians and policymakers feel bold, it also demands that they act bold. Eloquence creates expectations; and

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Of marbles and men

IN THE spring of 1887 a Lebanese villager named Mohammed Sherif discovered a well near Sidon that led to two underground chambers.

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Clayton Christensen On How To Find Work That You Love

When we find ourselves stuck in unhappy careers, it is often the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of what truly motivates us, says Clayton Christensen, co-author of the new book "How Will You...

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Phil Fernandez And Marketo's Mission: Eliminate Cold Calling Forever

Meet Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, and believer that cold calling should go the way of the dinosaur.

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The Oddball 80s Magic Of "Battle Of The Video Games"

Back in the early 80s, the boom in arcades and entertainment made icons of the likes of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Q*Bert...

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Israel in Peril by David Shulman | The New York Review of Books

David Shulman The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart Benjamin Netanyahu; drawing by Pancho Even apart from the disastrous...

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