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30 Things You Didn't Know About Return of The Jedi
wired.com 24 May
Tomorrow sees the 30th anniversary of the release of Return of The Jedi. To celebrate, here are 30 things you might not have known about the movie.
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This 23-Ton, 5.3-Million Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever
wired.com 23 May
This full-size X-Wing model is not only awesome, it's also the largest Lego model ever built.
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Beyond the numbers
economist.com 23 May
The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos. By Neil Turok. House of Anansi Press; 292 pages; C$19.95. Faber and Faber; £17.99. Buy from...
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Artists Turn A Craft Fair Into A Laboratory For New Materials
fastcodesign.com 13 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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If Only the Boy Scouts Were Like the Girl Scouts
ideas.time.com 23 May
The Girl Scouts explicitly reject discrimination, while the Boy Scouts encourage bigotry and intellectual passivity
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What a Burke
economist.com 23 May
Edmund Burke: The First Conservative. By Jesse Norman. Basic Books; 325 pages; $27.99. HarperPress; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk THE first...
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53 More 'Arrested Development' Jokes You Probably Missed | Splitsider
splitsider.com 23 May
Last year, we released a list of "53 Arrested Development Jokes You Probably Missed," and with the long-awaited new season set to debut on Netflix this Sunday a
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Here Are Four New Arrested Development Clips to Prepare You for the Weekend
wired.com 24 May
We're only days away from the new Netflix-only season of Arrested Development, but it still can't come soon enough. Here are four clips to hold everyone over until Sunday.
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What’s 2013′s “Gone Girl”? Here are this summer’s best reads
salon.com 24 May
Why settle for the latest Dan Brown, when you can while away the dog days with these stylish page-turners?
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The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur
washingtonpost.com 23 May
There seems to be a new breed of entrepreneurs whose greatest skill is playing a political game similar to the corporate stooge.
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Eye music
economist.com 23 May
Colour was their language “MUNICH was radiant,” wrote Thomas Mann, a Nobel prize-winning novelist, in 1902. “Art swayed the destinies of the town.” The...
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After the darkest hour
economist.com 23 May
The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union. By Luuk van Middelaar. Translated by Liz Waters. Yale University Press; 352 pages; $40 and £25. Buy from...
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A New Model To Pay For Infrastructure in Chicago
fastcoexist.com 24 May
The next big thing is funding urban infrastructure is now coming online in Chicago, and Tim Logan has done a deep dive on what that means at Next American City...
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Take A Secret Look Inside The Cocoon As A Caterpillar Transforms To A Butterfly
fastcoexist.com 24 May
The transformation of a lowly caterpillar into a graceful butterfly is the kind of shocking fact of nature that’s used to get children excited about science, so visible is the transformation, so...
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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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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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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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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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This Map Shines A Light On Every U.S. Single Drone Attack
fastcoexist.com 24 May
On May 24, President Obama addressed the U.S...
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How Do You Break Bad Habits?
farnamstreetblog.com 14 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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On the Road Again by Tara Israel - Narratively: Local stories, boldly told. -...
narrative.ly 23 May
I arrived in Nashville on a Sunday night in November...
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Santa Lucia
nplusonemag.com 24 May
The department’s fellows and one new hire, insular as a Greek chorus, sit at a nearby round table and glance over intermittently. Nola holds her palm above the table’s candle...
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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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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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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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LRB · Gary Indiana · Diary: In Havana
lrb.co.uk 24 May
Events of a distant nature have an abstract, even occult quality in Cuba, as of things glimpsed through a scrim of fog...
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Tracking: Drones At Home
fastcompany.com 24 May
Drones are coming to American airspace. Whether used in agribusiness to monitor farms by landscape architects to design properties by law enforcement...
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A Forest Hideaway Proves Concrete And Cozy Can Go Together
fastcodesign.com 24 May
A common, if facile, critique of Brutalism is that it is widely unsuited to domestic application...
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Avoiding “The Deferred Life Plan”
99u.com 24 May
One man's moment of clarity that lead him to quit his startup.
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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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Mister Softee Jingle Lyrics NOT An Incessant Stream Of Profanity, Apparently
theawl.com 24 May
Ugh, so this whole time I have been walking around thinking the words to the Mister Softee jingle went like this: I am the fucking ice cream, the man who sel
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Trivial Pursuits – The New Inquiry
thenewinquiry.com 53 mins ago
Why do we think of the kleptomaniac as being usually a woman, and why do we find her so alluring?
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Variety: Split Decisions
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Fred Piscop presents his Split Decisions.
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Good morning! My book, Steal Like An Artist is...
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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 22 hours ago
Summer holidays -- Summer holidays -- the magical days of childhood! Rachna Says
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