From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science?
salon.com 8 hours ago
The potent combination of our powerful intelligence with our massive reality denial has led to a dangerous world
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salon.com 6 hours ago
Life speeds up when we get older and slows down when we are terrified. Unlocking the mysteries of time perception
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How the smartphone killed the three-day weekend
redtape.nbcnews.com 24 May
Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture...
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The Summer Before College Is Critical To Success
ideas.time.com 24 May
Incoming freshmen can flounder in the months before becoming a college student
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Billionaire Says Babies Destroy A Woman's Focus In Wall Street Jobs
fastcompany.com 24 May
Paul Tudor Jones told an audience at the University of Virginia that having children makes women unsuitable for the finance industry. His comments...
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Minimalist Posters That Reduce Your Favorite Movies To Basic Shapes
fastcodesign.com 23 May
In the future, when the history of the Internet is taught alongside social studies and algebra in middle school, there will be a brief, marginal mention of minimalist posters and how they, for a...
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The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual
fastcodesign.com 24 May
You’re walking home alone on a quiet street. You hear footsteps approaching quickly from behind. It’s nighttime. Your senses scramble to help your brain figure out what to do...
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To See The Future Of Technology, Look At The People Using It For Crime
fastcoexist.com 24 May
Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how...
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The Truth About Kids And Social Media
fastcompany.com 24 May
According to a recent study 78 of parents helped create their childrens Facebook pages and 7.5 million users are under the age of 13. The way your...
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SnapChat, The Self-Destructing Message Service, Tries To Reverse The Permanence Of Modern Digital...
singularityhub.com 11 hours ago
You would think that it would be a terrible idea for a company accused of helping teenagers send each other sexually explicit images to feature bikini-clad young girls in their marketing...
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How An Age-Old Chart Is Redefining Health Care
fastcodesign.com 24 May
In a world where organ transplants and MRIs are commonplace, pediatric growth charts don’t sound very exciting. But after spending 30 illuminating minutes on the phone with Harvard researcher Dr...
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Artists Turn A Craft Fair Into A Laboratory For New Materials
fastcodesign.com 15 hours ago
Translating an artist’s vision into logic, or even plain English, is difficult. Modes of self-expression work in mysterious ways...
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Students Design 22 Playful Wooden Toys For Kids
fastcodesign.com 24 May
Though it seems counterintuitive, limitations can be the best thing to happen to the creative process...
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Where Gay Marriage is Banned, Couples Say Their Vows on Google Hangout
fastcocreate.com 24 May
In this amazing video, a gay French couple who have been together for 40 years, decide to take a stand against prejudice in their country: they get married on Google Hangout...
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This Is Your Body On A Can Of Soda
fastcoexist.com 23 May
At this point, you’d have to be quite daft to drink soda on a regular basis. Because the evidence of its ill-effects is vast, and mounting...
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What you and the Senate need to know about Canada
washingtonpost.com 23 May
Column | While immigration reform continues its crawl through Congress, Canada and Ireland are capitalizing on our immigration dysfunction.
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From IIT Bombay, "Mathematics in India - From Vedic Period to Modern Times"
satyameva-jayate.org 13 hours ago
In case you missed this: Mathematics in India - From Vedic Period to Modern Times - A Course Coordinated by IIT Bombay COURSE OUTLINE: The Course would cover the development of mathematical ideas a...
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These Beach Pics Will Whet Your Appetite For Summer
fastcodesign.com 24 May
The warm, teasing breezes of summer have begun to float in, bringing with them thoughts of languid sunbathing and beachside frolicking...
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12 More-Sad-Than-Funny Cartoons That Illuminate The War On Science
fastcoexist.com 24 May
From climate change to evolution, science is under siege. The cartoons here count the ways: political interference, personal attacks, erroneous reporting, dumbing down, corporate mischief...
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How Do You Break Bad Habits?
farnamstreetblog.com 16 hours ago
In this short video Charles Duhigg, author of, The Power of Habit, explains how to break a habit. Every habit functions the same way. At first, there is a cue...
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Stay Out of Syria! by David Bromwich | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 24 May
David Bromwich After the troubling revelations of the May 8 Senate hearing on Benghazi, much remains unclear about the attack that killed four Americans last...
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The Unanswerable Question by Alberto Manguel | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 23 May
Alberto Manguel One day in 1842, the thirty-eight-year old Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his notebook: “To write a dream, which shall resemble the real course of...
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"Star Trek Into Darkness": What Came Next
theawl.com 23 May
“You were in a coma for two weeks. I had to make a serum from his super-blood.” —Dr. “Bones” McCoy to Captain James T. Kirk, after reversing Kirk
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Vibram's FiveFingers Shoes: Plenty Of Critics, And Even More Sales
fastcompany.com 24 May
If everyone says your idea stinks it must be good. That's what Vibram VP Peter Von Conta learned on the road to releasing the FiveFingers running shoe...
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World's First 3-D-Printed Bullets Join A Growing DIY Arsenal
fastcompany.com 24 May
In a YouTube video a gun enthusiast shows off shotgun slugs he claims came from a 3D printer.
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This Anti-Gravity 3-D Printer Can Make Objects Anywhere—Even Space
fastcoexist.com 24 May
While many creators look at 3-D printing as a technology full of endless potential, designers Petr Novikov and Saša Jokić saw something with room for improvement.“There is a variety of different...
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A Line Of Cards Tells Millennials Living With Mom & Dad To GTFO
fastcocreate.com 23 May
Depending on who you ask, millennials are either planet wise, tech-savvy givers who are going to deliver the world into a brave new era, or entitled, dubiously skilled whiners who think they’re going...
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Steven Holl’s Sports Complex For Columbia Looks Like A Transformer
fastcodesign.com 24 May
After designing buildings all over the world, from Helsinki to Beijing, the New York-based architect Steven Holl has finally completed his first freestanding structure in the city...
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Any Way You Figure It, Aerosmith Is Old
theawl.com 23 May
"'Cryin’' is as old now as 'Dream On' was when 'Cryin’' came out."
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Fire Escape – The New Inquiry
thenewinquiry.com 24 May
Revolutions are the confused youth of history, paralyzed by possibility even as they’re enthralled by it.
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Flood-Tide Below Me - The Morning News
themorningnews.org 24 May
Seeking respite from a life lived in war zones—too many rebel factions, too many gunshots, too many backfiring motorcycles that sounded like gunshots—a family discovers temporary shelter in the outer...
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“these things don’t happen in straight lines” – The New Inquiry
thenewinquiry.com 3 hours ago
Mainly the reaction was, what is this? What are you doing? This isn’t a novel. This isn’t fiction. This isn’t straight criticism. It’s all mixed up...
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Good morning! My book, Steal Like An Artist is...
tumblr.austinkleon.com 14 hours ago
Good morning! My book, Steal Like An Artist is $7.50 on Amazon right now. That’s 30% off. Less than a Chipotle burrito with guacamole. If you like what I post on this Tumblr, you’ll like my book...
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Summer holidays -- the magical days of childhood! - Rachna Says
rachnaparmar.com 23 hours ago
Summer holidays -- Summer holidays -- the magical days of childhood! Rachna Says
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Irreverent Sermonettes
wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com 25 May
David Steinberg truly makes this puzzle his own.
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Lest We Forget: Retro-Styled Posters Personalize Fallen Soldiers | Co.Exist: World changing ideas...
fastcoexist.com 24 May
Artist--and member of the U.S. Armed Forces--Poto Leifi puts a new, poignant face on classic WWII posters. Read Full Story
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