Monday, February 28, 2011
Food sellers must not strive for uniformity in product, but make a virtue of variation and seasonality. [Michael Pollan] http://dld.bz/HfH5
Stacy Schiff describes Cleopatra's appearance and her suicide after the death of Mark Antony. [Daily Show Books 2011] http://dld.bz/P6wd
S. Fallon: Wives of deployed @USArmy soldiers hv to deal w/ family crises of adolescent kids alone. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
".. Friedan combined sociological research and good reporting skills." [A Strange Stirring] Feminism Books http://dld.bz/PvtE
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
P. Bergen: "In his email messages, Atta posed as a university student writing to his girlfriend, Jenny. [The Longest War] http://dld.bz/N2zp
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
".. steelworkers risked everything to strike and protest.." [There is Power in a Union] Important Books http://dld.bz/PD7q
George W. Bush's writing is so evocative, Stephen feels like he's right there holding that.. [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
"The number of girls working the streets, the casinos, and the hotels keeps rising, even as their age keeps dropping." http://dld.bz/KfRt
Anand Giridharadas: "And yet we were unmistakably Indian, too." [#India Calling] Race Books History http://dld.bz/P3zA
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Morozov: The Net Delusion: "a dangerous illusion by suggesting the world can @YouTube its way to Democracy" Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Read Interesting Books- ".. the study refutes assumptions that readers are passive, isolated or self-absorbed.." http://bit.ly/hVqU2s
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter "@Disney had never marketed its characters separately from a film's release." http://dld.bz/MYhU
The latest on cellphones and cancer risk: http://ping.fm/V01q6
Russell Simmons: "I am a practitioner of transcendental meditation." [Super Rich] Nonfiction Books Wisdom Anxiety http://dld.bz/NjvW
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"Students whose classes reflect high expectations learned more." [Academically Adrift] University @NPR @NYT http://dld.bz/NBqm
Students whose classes reflect high expectations gained more than other students. [Academically Adrift] Nonfiction http://dld.bz/NBqm
Peter H. Gleick: "#Public water is increasingly pushed out in favor of private control and profit." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
Nancy Marie Brown: To teach reading and writing, the monks used the Psalms. [Abacus and the Cross] Science Religion http://dld.bz/Ktxg
Well-done studies have shown conclusively that there is no causal link between vaccines & autism http://dld.bz/FjCQ panicvirus mnookin
Costco originally put in an order for 2k cases f prewashed individually bagged greens, and d order just kept increasing. http://dld.bz/HfH5
Sherry Turkle: We've come to confuse continual connectivity with making real connections. [Alone Together] @TEDchris @OM http://dld.bz/JJWm
"The Singularity will allow us to transcend these limitations of our biological bodies and brains..." @neurotechfuture http://dld.bz/JJWm
Steven Solomon: "Failure to maintain waterworks has been a telltale sign of a society in stagnation." [Water] Books http://dld.bz/Nu4U
What’s particularly valuable about Mr. Hoffman’s Pulitzer Prize winning book is d skill w/ which he narrows his focus. http://dld.bz/HXRm
According #O: A Presidential Novel, @WhiteHouse will run with the slogan “Promises Made. Promises Kept.” in 2012. http://dld.bz/HsmE
Jonathan Weiner: They think the conquest of aging is a reasonable goal. [Long for This World] @aubreydegrey @ilparone http://dld.bz/KfRt
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: [there is no such concept as "#importance" in the Wikipedia value system] Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Eduardo Porter: Pollution is cheapest in poor countries. [#Price of Everything] Nonfiction Books @Columbia_Biz http://dld.bz/K7ZA
Jonathan Alter: But the great promise of "Change We Can Believe In" was immediately tested by .. [The Promise] Books http://dld.bz/P6DR
Gideon Rachman, "Between the collapse of the USSR and Lehman Brothers, globalization created common.." [Zero-Sum Future] http://dld.bz/KkVU
The original EVO 4G features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
"Fortunately, nothing was ever fully consummated, so to speak..." [Scott Brown: Against All Odds] Abuse Memoirs Books http://dld.bz/NAtT
Robert B. Reich: Classical economists had viewed markets as self-correcting. [#Aftershock] @WSJ_Econ @SocialistEcon @NPR http://dld.bz/JjaP
Edward Glaeser: "#Cities encourage entrepreneurship..." [Triumph of the City] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/NqHC
The cornucopia of modern American supermarkets, fast-food joints confront us with a bewildering food landscape. http://dld.bz/HfH5
@TysonFoods have gone to great lengths to design meals that could be microwaved by 8 year olds. [The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Stephen Baker: "In that sense, automation saved jobs." [Final Jeopardy] @IBM Watson Nonfiction Books AI http://dld.bz/NrxD
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Barack Obama, "As we mark the end of America's combat mission in Iraq, a grateful nation must pay tribute..." @CNN @NPR http://dld.bz/KfxP
Mike Huckabee: "We are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did." [A Simple Government] Books http://dld.bz/PBaT
popped a few bottles in the fridge. should be good later ;) http://dld.bz/FCNB wine fridge
Mark Zuckerberg, "This investment demonstrates Facebook's ongoing success at creating a global network for people to..." http://dld.bz/KyK3
Peter H. Gleick: "Celebrities tout their current favorite brands of bottled water." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
Guillermo del Toro has always imagined the National Geographic approach to designing monsters. [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
"I spot a single copy of 'Frederick Douglas, an American Slave.' I grab it." [Kathryn Stockett: The Help] Fiction Books http://dld.bz/N9PV
"If you shake hands with someone who's obviously ill, you do want to wash your hands." [@NPRFreshAir Books] Illnesses http://dld.bz/JgwB
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Maryn McKenna: MRSA can start an infection on what looks like intact skin. [#Superbug] @AdamAnders @kevin_nealon @50Cent http://dld.bz/JgwB
Any cockroach wd tell you: Darwinism isn't about fitness, it's about adaptability, utterly different things. [Aftershock] http://dld.bz/JjaP
Liaquat Ahamed wrote about a moment not unlike the one we’re living through now. [#Pulitzer Prize History] http://dld.bz/HXRm @TheEconomist
Barack Obama: "When a seat in the legislature opened up, friends persuaded me to run." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
I like them smoky, liquor-drinking sounds when it get dark. Makes me ... [Kathryn Stockett: The Help] Fiction Books http://dld.bz/N9PV
"#Indianness was like a secret garden to which the society around us lacked access." [#India Calling] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/P3zA
Eric Kandel: "Understanding the human mind .. has emerged as the central challenge." [Charlie Rose Books] http://dld.bz/PCZC
Edward Glaeser: ".. cities should replace their lengthy permitting processes with a simple system." [Triumph of the City] http://dld.bz/NqHC
David Hoffman revisits d Cold War arms race and details d inner-workings of d Soviet nuclear program in "The Dead Hand" http://dld.bz/HXRf
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: "#People don't rise from nothing." Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MVcG
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Nancy Marie Brown: For more than 35 years, the Muslim and Christian kingdoms of Spain were at peace. [#Abacus.. Cross] http://dld.bz/Ktxg
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
"There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine..." @SingularityNews Singularity @otsuki3c http://dld.bz/JJWm
.. food tossed in fear of being past inscrutable "best by" dates.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Nonfiction http://dld.bz/K9QG
"As consolation for not becoming a martyr, Binalshibh took control of the #9/11 attack from Germany." [The Longest War] http://dld.bz/N2zp
Stephen Baker: "His system would be known as Basement Baseline." [Final Jeopardy] @IBM Watson AI Books http://dld.bz/NrxD
"The courts held labor unions to be unlawful combinations, conspiracies." [There is Power in a Union] Books http://dld.bz/PD7q
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Corn has been turned into a dietary agent of evil. [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 high fructose corn syrup
Eduardo Porter: .. the @WorldBank "believed poor countries were dumps." [#Price of Everything] Nonfiction Books @NPR http://dld.bz/K7ZA
George Friedman: "Each Machiavellian President fully understood the uses of power..." [The Next Decade] Books http://dld.bz/NsTe
Goldstone: "It wasn't clear initially whether slaves would enjoy full-fledged citizenship." [Inherently Unequal] Books http://dld.bz/PznG
Teresa Wu, Serena Wu: "With a 75% Asian student body, our school was a hotbed of Science Bowl nerds." [My Mom is a Fob] http://dld.bz/NjvW
Russell Simmons: a state of needing nothing is how I define "Super Rich." [Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All] Books http://dld.bz/NjvW
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [The Internet started as a Defense Department project.] @Google @Facebook @Microsoft http://dld.bz/JJWm
Errors by the world’s four most important central banks led to the near collapse of capitalist economies in the West. http://dld.bz/HXRm
To understand all of food waste's moral implications.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/K9QG
"Since there are trillions of cells, errors do eventually slip through." @DNA NPR [Jonathan Weiner, Long for this World] http://dld.bz/KfRt
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Peter Gleick: "All of a sudden public water fountains have vanished and bottled water is everywhere." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
The person behind #O: A Presidential Novel has “vast personal experience” on the subject http://dld.bz/HsmE @SimonSchuster @NYT @NPR @BBC
You should care about the greater cosmos and its nature. [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb cosmology nonfiction books
Friedman: "This country's indebtedness does not reduce its ability to affect the international system." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
.. the American attitude toward food has gone from a "use it up, wear it out, ma.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] http://dld.bz/K9QG
Anand Giridharadas: "They accepted and came to savor the American way of life." [#India Calling] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/P3zA
Dark energy effectively contributes 75% of the current energy density of the universe. http://dld.bz/HDrF cosmology @SciFri @WiredScience
Stephen Baker: "A Jeopardy computer would fail, embarrassing the company and the team." [Final Jeopardy] Books http://dld.bz/NrxD
Robert B. Reich: Eccles says that mass production and consumption necessitates a distribution of wealth. [Aftershock] http://dld.bz/JjaP
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "When Barbie was introduced, moms disapproved..." Sex Girls Feminism http://dld.bz/MYhU
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
"Bush didn't cotton to the idea," Rumsfeld writes in his yet-to-be-released memoir Known and Unknown, excerpts of which.. http://dld.bz/K9cd
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: [..the "@Twitter Revolutions" in Iran was based on the expectation..] Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Loren Legarda's team had to come up with Internet strategies on the fly. @rickycarandang @piahontiveros @ruffybiazon http://dld.bz/JpRu
I don't think we exaggerate the amount of wine-drinking that adults do in America by that much http://dld.bz/FCNB wine fridge
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Mike Huckabee: "What people do in the privacy of their own lives as adults is their business." [Simple Government] Books http://dld.bz/PBaT
Joshua Foer: "#Benzedrine, an over-the-counter amphetamine similar to Adderall that.." [Moonwalking.. Einstein] Books http://dld.bz/PMKK
".. many of the women I interviewed still insist Friedan saved their sanity.." [A Strange Stirring] Feminism Books http://dld.bz/PvtE
After Paul Clemens spent a year watching men disassemble a Detroit stamping plant, he discovered .. [Daily Show Authors] http://dld.bz/PwcN
Saturday, February 26, 2011
As a child of parents who immigrated to America, Anand Giridharadas explains why he.. [Daily Show Authors] India Books http://dld.bz/PwcN
Eric Kandel: ".. to understand the biological nature of the limits of free will.." [Charlie Rose Books] Brain Mind http://dld.bz/PCZC
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: [..buzz on @Twitter it took four weeks to get the events in Tunisia on the..] Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
"#Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau scooped himself on the first openly gay character in... [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
I tested this latest version out on my Sprint HTC EVO 4G http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
Jonathan Alter: ".. taking action to get out of a major depression was less controversial than .." [The Promise] Books http://dld.bz/P6DR
Barack Obama: "The absent father and the hint of scandal..." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
Geoffrey Nunberg: "At their conventions, the @GOP refer to themselves as the party of Lincoln." [The Way We Talk Now] http://dld.bz/JgwB
Russell Simmons: "... the book is not about me being enlightened, but about having faith in all the..." [Super Rich] http://dld.bz/NjvW
Russell Simmons: "That means if you can watch your thoughts, then you can make choices." [Super Rich] Books http://dld.bz/NjvW
Americans used to be in favor of globalization. But since China took all of their jobs: no more. [Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP
Mike Huckabee: "..ask me as a taxpayer to support it or to endorse it, then it becomes.." [A Simple Government] Books http://dld.bz/PBaT
David Hoffman: In the '90s, Russian drivers would offer bribes to traffic officers 95% of the time, outright. Oligarchs http://dld.bz/Jxnk
Ray Kurzweil: Productivity has been growing exponentially. [#Singularity Is Near] Computers Technology AI http://dld.bz/JJWm
Rumsfeld replied: "You go to war with the army you have." [Known and Unknown] @OregonGuard http://dld.bz/K9cd
"#Child advocacy centers just didn't exist then." [Scott Brown: Against All Odds] Massachusetts http://dld.bz/NAtT
“The Dead Hand” is an examination of the doomsday competition between the US and USSR. http://dld.bz/HXRm Pulitzer History Books
Jonathan Alter: ".. what Obama called his "philosophy of persistence" paid off .." [The Promise] Politics Books http://dld.bz/P6DR
"#Indianness was like a secret garden to which the society around us lacked access." [#India Calling] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/P3zA
Eduardo Porter: .. the poor choose among their options the same way the rich do. [#Price of Everything] Nonfiction @BW http://dld.bz/K7ZA
"All of al-Qaeda's camps and residential compounds were put on high alert in the days before #9/11." [The Longest War] http://dld.bz/N2zp
"Technological singularity" reflects the idea that such change may happen suddenly... @SingularityGD @futurerobotic http://dld.bz/JJWm
For African Americans in particular, the federal deficit and debt are downright critical! [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP Poor
@JennyMcCarthy wins the Pigasus award for her contribution to the country's ill-health http://dld.bz/FjCQ panicvirus autism mnookin
Because d Soviets feared an American nuclear strike they developed an automatic system to launch their missiles. @NPR http://dld.bz/HXRf
Peter Gleick: "All this energy to bottle water, carbonate it... was such a waste." [Bottled and Sold] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/Nt5S
.. I knew I was wrong to waste food. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Nonfiction Books Economics @BFLAY http://dld.bz/K9QG
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire. [The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5
Steven Solomon: "#Rome rose to power when it gained dominance over the Mediterranean Sea." [#Water] History Books http://dld.bz/Nu4U
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Atheism is often a transition period when our myths morph into new form and relevance. [Armstrong: Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Greene thinks the key to understanding these multiverses comes from string theory. [The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb science books
Nunberg is a language and computer technology researcher. [The Way We Talk Now] @NPR English @NYT @HouseDemocrats http://dld.bz/JgwB
Gideon Rachman: "a faith in democracy – expressed most famously by Francis Fukuyama’s essay." [Zero-Sum Future] @WSJ @NPR http://dld.bz/KkVU
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
After reading A History of God, readers often wonder where the author’s own religious convictions lay. [Karen Armstrong] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses: ".. ensure that your house was toxin free, use cloth diapers .." Books Dederer http://dld.bz/Pssq
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
"Lotion told the teenager where the hottest spots were, where to sit, and where to walk." [Somebody's Daughter] Books http://dld.bz/KfRt
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "Does a pink soccer ball celebrate girlhood?" Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
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Eric Kandel: ".. the human mind in biological terms has emerged as the central challenge." [Charlie Rose Books] http://dld.bz/PCZC
Voters in Cagayan and Cebu tend to share their political views on the web. @ANCAlerts @Manila_Bulletin @giboteodoro http://dld.bz/JpRu
Kevin Kelly: ".. long-term imperatives of this near-living system, we can capture its full gifts." Singularity Books http://dld.bz/JJWm
Peter H. Gleick: "Consumers must demand that water agencies adjust the chemical composition of tap..." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
The anonymously authored roman à clef numbers 368 pages #O: A Presidential Novel http://dld.bz/HsmE @WhiteHouse @BarackObama books
Michael Lewis explains how Wall Street got so good at disguising bad loans that they bo... [Stephen Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
"They include 'cross links' that gum up the machinery and glue cells to one another and mitochondria that fail with age." http://dld.bz/KfRt
"Lotion told the teenager where the hottest spots were, where to sit, and where to walk." [Somebody's Daughter] Books http://dld.bz/KfRt
Friday, February 25, 2011
The British writer’s focus is outward, on its social and political impact. [Karen Armstrong: 12 Steps Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Kurt Cobain: The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if .. ["Godspeed"] http://dld.bz/Pmqz
More than 55% of the voters in Quezon City went online to get involved in the last election. [Campaigns on the Internet] http://dld.bz/JpRu
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "When Barbie was introduced, moms disapproved..." Sex Girls Feminism http://dld.bz/MYhU
Robert Reich: The meltdown of 2008 was a window into the American economy's underlying flaws. @TheEconomist [Aftershock] http://dld.bz/JjaP
45% of students "did not prove any significant improvement in learning" during college. [Academically Adrift] http://dld.bz/NBqm
"We will soon create intelligences greater than our own..." [The Technological Singularity Debate] @lifeboathq http://dld.bz/JJWm
Today, the compassionate voice of religion is sorely needed. [Karen Armstrong: 12 Steps To A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM @TED
Steven Solomon: Much of the world's water resources are "becoming dangerously depleted." [Water] Books http://dld.bz/Nu4U
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
What’s particularly valuable about Mr. Hoffman’s Pulitzer Prize winning book is d skill w/ which he narrows his focus. http://dld.bz/HXRm
Big Organic is taking over every possible market possible, imposing itself upong us. [The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5
Edward Glaeser: "... a warning against thinking that it’s easy to do public housing." [Triumph of the City] Cities http://dld.bz/NqHC
Nancy Marie Brown: This pope left us over 200 letters and a handful of scientific treatises. [#Abacus and the Cross] http://dld.bz/Ktxg
It's possible Stephen is the author of "O" since he does have frequent episodes where .. [Stephen Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
Hoffman: ... Reagan’s unshakable devotion to the Strategic Defense Initiative, "Star Wars." @KremlinRussia [Dead Hand] http://dld.bz/HXRf
Barack Obama: "I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes..." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
@Facebook users who feel shallow status updates devalue the true intimacies of friendships. {@STurkle: Alone Together} http://dld.bz/JJWm
So what does this have to do with the possibility that a multiverse exists? [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb cosmos
The cornucopia of modern American supermarkets, fast-food joints confront us with a bewildering food landscape. http://dld.bz/HfH5
Anand Giridharadas: "They stil loved India, but they never looked back." [#India Calling] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/P3zA
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Devra Davis: "#Cell phones help you find a job." [Disconnect] Radiation Cancer Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/PtjN
Peter Bergen: "... bin Laden had dispatched dozens of suicide operatives for attacks against the U.S." [The Longest War] http://dld.bz/N2zp
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: .. the action was dubbed the @Twitter Revolution.. Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MVcG
"With futures contracts that looked alike, it became easier to buy and sell them and to trade them like baseball cards." http://dld.bz/Jxnk
Jonathan Alter: ".. the country would have slipped into an economic depression." [The Promise] Obama Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/P6DR
Russell Simmons: "... the book is not about me being enlightened, but about having faith in all the..." [Super Rich] http://dld.bz/NjvW
The anonymously authored roman à clef numbers 368 pages #O: A Presidential Novel http://dld.bz/HsmE @WhiteHouse @BarackObama books
Stephen Baker: "Not long ago, a man with superhuman strength played a valuable role in society." [Final Jeopardy] Books http://dld.bz/NrxD
Jules (Courteney Cox) drinks wine out of an enormous goblet she calls Big Carl http://dld.bz/FCNB wine fridge
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: ... Andrew Sullivan a few hours after the news of the protests broke... Iran Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter "Wholesome to Whoresome: The Other @Disney Princesses." Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
@STurkle: We aren't happy anymore; we’re simply a semicolon followed by a parenthesis. @raykurzweil2035 [#Alone Together] http://dld.bz/JJWm
Stephen Baker: "A Jeopardy computer would fail, embarrassing the company and the team." [Final Jeopardy] Books http://dld.bz/NrxD
Jonathan Alter: "#Obama was right to try to 'put points on the board' in Year One." [The Promise] Books http://dld.bz/P6DR
D most successful 20-somethings delay starting a family until they’ve established financial stability. [Not Quite Adults] http://dld.bz/HCAE
Is it possible 4 bull mkt to continue when mst Americans still in doldums? No. Expect "great correction" within the month http://dld.bz/JjaP
@RBReich: This is a jobs emergency, and if I were president tonight, I'd talk about nothing but this jobs emergency! @BW http://dld.bz/JjaP
Eduardo Porter: She has little choice but to risk her own health for clothing.. [#Price of Everything] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/K7ZA
"They include 'cross links' that gum up the machinery and glue cells to one another and mitochondria that fail with age." http://dld.bz/KfRt
Dark energy, purported to make up 73% of the Universe, is proposed as the source of the ongoing expansion of the cosmos. http://dld.bz/HDrF
Eduardo Porter: Pollution is cheapest in poor countries. [#Price of Everything] Nonfiction Books @Columbia_Biz http://dld.bz/K7ZA
G. Friedman: ".. the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have required few game-changing innovations." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
We can’t “see” the strings that are talked about in string theory. [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb universe cosmos
The thickener in a milkshake is made of corn. [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 HFCS food obesity books
Peter H. Gleick: "#Water fountains have become an anachronism or even a liability." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
But as Weiner points out, there is a big problem with immortality. ["Long for this World"] Biology Medicine http://dld.bz/KfRt
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Oliver Sacks has spent his career examining patients struggling to survive with Alzheimer's disease. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB
Naomi Klein: "September 11 appears to have provided Washington with the green light .." [The Shock Doctrine] Books http://dld.bz/PsPb
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
William A. Galston's directions on how to lower unemployment: "#Economics in America." http://dld.bz/JjaP Jobs @planetmoney @EconDebates
"Fortunately, nothing was ever fully consummated, so to speak..." [Scott Brown: Against All Odds] Abuse @NPR Books http://dld.bz/NAtT
Ackerman explains why colds follow that familiar throat-to-nose-to-chest path of misery. [@NPRFreshAir Books] Sick http://dld.bz/JgwB
Wine flows freely in "Cougar Town" http://dld.bz/FCNB wine fridge
Those key differences were never clearly or firmly resolved in the NSC. [Donald Rumsfeld] Nonfiction Military Books http://dld.bz/K9cd
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
NewSouth Books doesn't go far enough with its censorship of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
The job loss is much worse during this recession. [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP Unemployment @nytimesbusiness @planetmoney
Its much worse to forgo college. [Richard Settersten, Barbara E. Ray: Not Quite Adults] http://dld.bz/HCAE parenting education @NPR @BBC
Stephen Baker: "... fears about the role of brainy machines in society." [Final Jeopardy] Books AI Technology http://dld.bz/NrxD
William A. Galston's directions on how to lower unemployment: "#Economics in America." http://dld.bz/JjaP Jobs @planetmoney @EconDebates
Stephanie Coontz: "#Conservatives are backing off on the condemnation of single mothers." [A Strange Stirring] Books http://dld.bz/PvtE
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
William A. Galston's directions on how to lower unemployment: "#Economics in America." http://dld.bz/JjaP Jobs @planetmoney @EconDebates
Instead of relying on the wisdom of our senses, we adhere to advertising, diet fads, and science. @MichaelPollan http://dld.bz/HfH5 food
Teresa Wu, Serena Wu: "FOB stands for fresh off the boat..." [My Mom is a Fob] Asian Books Parents http://dld.bz/NjvW
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
William A. Galston's directions on how to lower unemployment: "#Economics in America." http://dld.bz/JjaP Jobs @planetmoney @EconDebates
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
45% of students "did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning" during college. [Academically Adrift] http://dld.bz/NBqm
Claire Dederer: Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses: "Dress your child in organic fibers." Parenting Books http://dld.bz/Pssq
I tested this latest version out on my Sprint HTC EVO 4G http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
Eduardo Porter: She has little choice but to risk her own health for clothing.. [#Price of Everything] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/K7ZA
William A. Galston's directions on how to lower unemployment: "#Economics in America." http://dld.bz/JjaP Jobs @planetmoney @EconDebates
"All of al-Qaeda's camps and residential compounds were put on high alert in the days before #9/11." [The Longest War] http://dld.bz/N2zp
Peter H. Gleick: "#Public water is increasingly pushed out in favor of private control and profit." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "Does a pink soccer ball celebrate girlhood?" Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
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Suketu Mehta is author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist. http://dld.bz/HXRm Pulitzer Books
"The trouble with immortality is endless. The thought of it brings us into contact with problems of time itself." Death http://dld.bz/KfRt
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: [... the imaginary @Facebook campaign against Copenhagen’s city went viral...] Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
.. we could all stand to be reminded to respect food.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] http://dld.bz/K9QG
The job loss is much worse during this recession. [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP Unemployment @nytimesbusiness @planetmoney
Stephen Baker: "In that sense, automation saved jobs." [Final Jeopardy] @IBM Watson Nonfiction Books AI http://dld.bz/NrxD
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String theory posits that the entire universe can be explained in terms of strings [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb
Sherry Turkle describes technology today as a corporate trap that keeps us tethered to cellphones. [#Alone Together] http://dld.bz/JJWm
AutismOne has become more extreme as more n more evidence disproves their claims http://dld.bz/FjCQ panicvirus mnookin autism vaccines
Stephen Baker: "A Jeopardy computer would fail, embarrassing the company and the team." [Final Jeopardy] Books http://dld.bz/NrxD
Compassion impels us to dethrone ourselves from the center of the world. [Karen Armstrong: Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM peace
David Hoffman: Mr. Gorbachev declined to up the ante by building a Soviet Star Wars missile system. [The Dead Hand] http://dld.bz/HXRf
Friedman: ".. the primary global growth impetus is limited to putting existing tech into more hands." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
The Godmans helped dethrone iceberg lettuce, which used to dominate ths market of greens. [@MichaelPollan] http://dld.bz/HfH5 food dinner
McGee, a food science expert, explains techniques for kicking recipes up a few notches. @NYTimesFood @LATimesFood http://dld.bz/JgwB
William A. Galston's directions on how to lower unemployment: "#Economics in America." http://dld.bz/JjaP Jobs @planetmoney @EconDebates
The job loss is much worse during this recession. [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP Unemployment @nytimesbusiness @planetmoney
@BarackObama: "Or worse, I sound like I'm trying to hide from myself." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
V. S. Ramachandran has written several books about unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. [The Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Kurt Cobain: Please read my diary. Look through my things and figure me out.. ["Godspeed"] Graphic Novels http://dld.bz/Pmqz
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Teresa Wu, Serena Wu: "..hilarious, adorable, endearing antics of their Asian immigrant parents.." [My Mom is a Fob] http://dld.bz/NjvW
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: [... @Twitter-driven revolution in a low-tech country like Moldova...] Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
From Confucius to @Oprah, people have preached compassion for centuries [Karen Armstrong: A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
The original EVO has an HDMI output and a rear kickstand http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
Barack Obama: [#War is bigger than any one man or woman, whether a private, a general or a president] @WhiteHouse @NPR http://dld.bz/KfxP
Maryn McKenna: Doctors long thought that MRSA was confined to hospitals and clinics.. [#Superbug] YaleMed @CDC @NIH http://dld.bz/JgwB
Rumsfeld fires back that the secretary of State had once been "the most senior military officer in our country" and n.. http://dld.bz/K9cd
Sherry Turkle doesn't want to get rid of technology, but she thinks it's time to put it.. [Stephen Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
Sherry Turkle's "Alone Together:" Technology has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other. http://dld.bz/JJWm
Wine flows freely in "Cougar Town" http://dld.bz/FCNB wine fridge
Sherry Turkle: We often seek out robots as a solution to our own imperfections. [Alone Together] @transhumanistic @PBS http://dld.bz/JJWm
Oliver Sacks: Deaf people who use sign language may acquire aphasia. [The Mind's Eye] @Harvard @Stanford @BBC @NYT http://dld.bz/JgwB
Breakfast cereals provide d bulk of General Mills’ profits, and is almost wholly synthetic and processed. @MichaelPollan http://dld.bz/HfH5
Kelly: By listening to what technology wants we can better prepare ourselves for the inevitable. Singularity @Science http://dld.bz/JJWm
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [AT&T had the power to quash the answering machine, which, a Bell Labs engineer invented] http://dld.bz/JJWm
Mark Zuckerberg, ".. real honour and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of .." http://dld.bz/KyK3
Robert B. Reich: The Great Depression and the Great Recession are closely related. [Aftershock] @TheEconomist @WSJ @BW http://dld.bz/JjaP
Friedman: ".. the primary global growth impetus is limited to putting existing tech into more hands." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
Liaquat Ahamed wrote about a moment not unlike the one we’re living through now. [#Pulitzer Prize History] http://dld.bz/HXRm @TheEconomist
Geoffrey Nunberg: "At their conventions, the @GOP refer to themselves as the party of Lincoln." [The Way We Talk Now] http://dld.bz/JgwB
String theory posits that the entire universe can be explained in terms of strings [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb
Joints like @Longjohnslvrs certainly don't help obesity issues here. [@MichaelPollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 HCFS food
"#Child advocacy centers just didn't exist then." [Scott Brown: Against All Odds] @repschrader @repjohnbarrow http://dld.bz/NAtT
@RBReich: Joblessness remains high because working Americans' wages stagnated over d past 30 years! Economics @EconUS http://dld.bz/JjaP
Compassion impels us to dethrone ourselves from the center of the world. [Karen Armstrong: Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM peace
.. I hear the driver say, "I don't know, some nigger got shot." [Kathryn Stockett: The Help] Fiction Books http://dld.bz/N9PV
Steven Solomon: "... water breakthroughs that have been entwined with major turning points in history.." [Water] Books http://dld.bz/Nu4U
The parenting "arms race" includes music lessons, language classes, and foreign holidays. [Not Quite Adults] http://dld.bz/HCAE @NPR @NYT
V. S. Ramachandran uses real mirrors to change the brain and relieve pain in "The Tell-Tale Brain." Science Read more: http://dld.bz/Nh9v
.. the trajectory of America's food from gathering to garbage bin.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] @fandw http://dld.bz/K9QG
Barack Obama: "She's wise that way, my grandmother, suspicious of overwrought sentiments..." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
“The Dead Hand” takes its title from a Soviet doomsday machine first conceived under Brezhnev. http://dld.bz/HXRf Pulitzer Books
Sherry Turkle: "Is technology offering us the lives we want to lead?" [Alone Together] @ericschmidt @garyvee @sacca @ev http://dld.bz/JJWm
Jules (Courteney Cox) drinks wine out of an enormous goblet she calls Big Carl http://dld.bz/FCNB wine fridge
A tinkerer helped pioneer d packing of greens in a specially formulated plastic bag pumped w/ inert gases. @MichaelPollan http://dld.bz/HfH5
Peter H. Gleick: "#Water fountains have become an anachronism or even a liability." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
The Philippines is #1 when it comes to politics and the Internet. @shalanisoledad @loren_legarda @Manny_Villar http://dld.bz/JpRu
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: "... correlation between date of birth and athletic success." Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MVcG
Nancy Marie Brown: Trade and scientific exchanges flourished. [The Abacus and the Cross] Christianity Science @Vatican http://dld.bz/Ktxg
Tim Wu, The Master Switch [from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel] http://dld.bz/JJWm
"When we go beyond our likes and dislikes, our perspective fans out." [Karen Armstrong: 12 Steps To A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
The author of “O” (Presidential Novel) clearly has an intimate feel 4 what it is and was like 2 campaign w/ @BarackObama http://dld.bz/HsmE
Friedman: "When we look at the projects we need, the organization to execute is the Dept of Defense." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
Friedman: "When we look at the projects we need, the organization to execute is the Dept of Defense." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
David Hoffman revisits d Cold War arms race and details d inner-workings of d Soviet nuclear program in "The Dead Hand" http://dld.bz/HXRf
The Dalai Lama concentrates inward on psychological benefits; the British writer’s focus is outward. [Karen Armstrong] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Eduardo Porter: Waste confronts us with the same value proposition as anything else. [#Price of Everything] @NPR Books http://dld.bz/K7ZA
Living at home is a way for young people to retain stability at a critical life-stage. [Not Quite Adults] http://dld.bz/HCAE parenting
The new device allows up to eight Wi-Fi-enabled devices to tether to the phone http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "I didn't know whether Disney Princesses would be the first.." Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Maryn McKenna: The hospital MRSA strain and community MRSA strain have merged to form a 3rd kind of MRSA. [#Superbug] http://dld.bz/JgwB
..to keep our Earth and its inhabitants physically and morally healthy. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Nonfiction http://dld.bz/K9QG
Russell Simmons: "Rappers are less gangster than their government." [Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All] Books http://dld.bz/NjvW
Nancy Marie Brown: .. for God had created the world according to number, measure, and weight.. [The Abacus and the Cross] http://dld.bz/Ktxg
@BarackObama: "Well, I suspect that I sound incurably naive, wedded to lost hopes." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "Bratz dolls were released in 2001, by a small, privately owned..." Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: @Google will not save you... Iran Egypt Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Gideon Rachman: .. win-win logic that allowed the major powers to .. replaced by a zero-sum logic.. [#Zero-Sum Future] http://dld.bz/KkVU
.. we could all stand to be reminded to respect food.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] @LAWeeklyFood http://dld.bz/K9QG
Greene thinks the key to understanding these multiverses comes from string theory. [The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb science books
It's all about the right hand blender to make a truly "modern old fashion." drinks http://dld.bz/H9GV @DrinkConelly @BookOfCocktails
Robert B. Reich: Eccles says that mass production and consumption necessitates a distribution of wealth. [Aftershock] http://dld.bz/JjaP
George Friedman: "With few countries working on breakthrough technologies, this innovation will not..." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsT
Geoff Nunberg is the author of the book, “The Way We Talk Now.” [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB Tucson Shootings @SarahPalinUSA
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [turning points of the century' s information landscape] @superwuster http://dld.bz/JJWm
"Lotion told the teenager where the hottest spots were, where to sit, and where to walk." [Somebody's Daughter] Books http://dld.bz/KfRt
Those key differences were never clearly or firmly resolved in the NSC. [Donald Rumsfeld] Nonfiction Military Books http://dld.bz/K9cd
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: @Facebook will not save you... Iran Egypt Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: ".. these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work." Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MVcG
Popeil's invention, Gladwell said, is "arguably the greatest rotisserie oven for the home ever made," and it has been... http://dld.bz/MVcG
"Inside, someone has written '#NIGGER BOOK' in purple crayon." [Kathryn Stockett: The Help] Fiction Books http://dld.bz/N9PV
Hoffman: Soviet workers shot at nuclear waste barrels that were dumped at sea but came to the surface. [The Dead Hand] http://dld.bz/HXRf
Joints like @Longjohnslvrs certainly don't help obesity issues here. [@MichaelPollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 HCFS food
Patti Smith gives advice to young people who decide to throw away their .. become artists. [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
Taxes for the rich were much higher under presidents from Roosevelt to Nixon and yet the economy grew far faster then. http://dld.bz/JjaP
Sherry Turkle: "There are benefits of @Facebook for depressed people." [Alone Together] @jeffpulver @RyanSeacrest @CNBC http://dld.bz/JJWm
Jennifer Ackerman: "#Immune-system boosting" products and supplements make for a $40B a year business." [Ah-Choo!] http://dld.bz/JgwB
Kevin Kelly: the singularity is a biological and physiological context, inherently. [What Technology Wants] @Science http://dld.bz/JJWm
Teresa Wu, Serena Wu: ".. easy to clean and keeps us healthier. I just love my Morgan Freeman grill." [My Mom is a Fob] http://dld.bz/NjvW
@NASA @NSF @WiredScience The calculation also takes into account the relative proportion of dark energy in the Universe. http://dld.bz/HDrF
Paul Krugman is asking if Europe can be saved; talks with Terry Gross. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB Economics
Mark Zuckerberg, "When a person shares something like a message with a friend, two copies of that information are..." http://dld.bz/KyK3
Armstrong is the author of 22 books. [12 Steps To A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM Compassion Peace Religion
China and India may have growing pains - but debt is not one of them! [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP @WSJ @NPR @EconDebates
Friedman: "When we look at the projects we need, the organization to execute is the Dept of Defense." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
Cornel West wants the love to flow so that poor people will have the same dignity as investment bankers [#Colbert Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
@TysonFoods considers itself a “#service” sort of Business, wants to distance itself from “commodity corn peddler.” http://dld.bz/HfH5
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: "... Iran's seemed like a revolution that the whole world was not just ..." Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Come February 7th in New York, @Sprint is unveiling something http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
Ray Kurzweil: We would have to repeal capitalism and economic competition to stop this progression. [Singularity Is Near] http://dld.bz/JJWm
To understand all of food waste's moral implications.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/K9QG
Eduardo Porter: .. the World Bank "believed poor countries were dumps." [#Price of Everything] Nonfiction Books @NPR http://dld.bz/K7ZA
To act or speak violently is a denial of our common humanity. [Karen Armstrong: 12 Steps To A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Jonathan Weiner: They think the conquest of aging is a reasonable goal. [Long for This World] @aubreydegrey @ilparone http://dld.bz/KfRt
Siobhan Fallon: When @USArmy soldiers leave on a deployment, their spouses somehow manage. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB
To understand all of food waste's moral implications.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/K9QG
... the brain abhors discrepancies. It is seeking consistency. [VS Ramachandran: The Tell-Tale Brain] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Stephen Baker: "... named after its flesh-and-blood ancestor, @IBM's founder, Thomas J. Watson." [Final Jeopardy] http://dld.bz/NrxD
Nancy Marie Brown: Pope Sylvester II (999-1003) was known as "the Scientist Pope." [The Abacus and the Cross] Religion http://dld.bz/Ktxg
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "I didn't know whether Disney Princesses would be the first.." Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
Monday, February 21, 2011
"Students who spend more time in fraternities and sororities don't learn as much." [Academically Adrift] @NPR @NYT http://dld.bz/NBqm
Robert B. Reich: Eccles says that mass production and consumption necessitates a distribution of wealth. [Aftershock] http://dld.bz/JjaP
Stephen Baker: "For humans, knowledge is an entire universe, a welter of sensations and memories..." [Final Jeopardy] AI http://dld.bz/NrxD
Jane McGonigal says 10 years of scientific research show that playing video games is act.. [Stephen Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: [... it was a @Facebook group called No Más FARC that got credited for this.. ] Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
The whole Siobhan Fallon piece and the @USArmy stories in her book are so sad. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB Life Love Family
Liaquat Ahamed wrote about a moment not unlike the one we’re living through now. [Pulitzer Prize History Books] http://dld.bz/HXRm @FT @BW
"Students who spend more time in fraternities and sororities don't learn as much." [Academically Adrift] University http://dld.bz/NBqm
@STurkle: In some ways we've lost the time for the conversations that count. [Alone Together] @junecohen @TED_TALKS @CNET http://dld.bz/JJWm
It's hard to love your enemies! [Karen Armstrong: 12 Steps To A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM compassion books @NPR @BBC @NYT
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1955: 2 traders cornered the futures market, drove down prices in order to profit from a short positions that they held. http://dld.bz/Jxnk
Edward Glaeser: "One deterrent against middle-class high-rise living is federal policy." [Triumph of the City] Books http://dld.bz/NqHC
What do shoppers at @WholeFoods have in common with the homeless at People’s Park in Berkeley? @MichaelPollan food life http://dld.bz/HfH5
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [a commerce secretary who had been protecting radio from what he called “advertising chatter”] http://dld.bz/JJWm
How General Mills transforms 4 cents worth of corn into $5 of processed food. [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5
Siobhan Fallon: When @USArmy soldiers leave on a deployment, their spouses somehow manage. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB
.. there's something to associating unfinished food with hunger, morally.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] http://dld.bz/K9QG
Food Marketers get us to change how we eat, which undermines d social structures that steady our eating. @MichaelPollan http://dld.bz/HfH5
I wish Pollan would stick his neck out, be more prescriptive about how we might address our national eating disorder. http://dld.bz/HfH5
Food Marketers get us to change how we eat, which undermines d social structures that steady our eating. @MichaelPollan http://dld.bz/HfH5
Dairy products out of @WholeFoods come from cattle that are confined to dry lots their entire lives. [Michael Pollan] http://dld.bz/HfH5
Russell Simmons: "We want to be able to step back..." [Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All] Books http://dld.bz/NjvW
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: "... correlation between date of birth and athletic success." Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MVcG
We need to ensure that youth are given accurate and respectful information about other traditions! [Karen Armstrong] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Nancy Marie Brown: Mathematics ranked among the highest forms of worship. [The Abacus and the Cross] Science Religion http://dld.bz/Ktxg
Russell Simmons: "Rappers are less gangster than their government." [Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All] Books http://dld.bz/NjvW
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [the American affection for information monopolists and the consequences of that fondness] http://dld.bz/JJWm
.. food tossed in fear of being past inscrutable "best by" dates.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Books http://dld.bz/K9QG
Steven Solomon: ".. the hydraulic arts of controlling water from large rivers for mass-scale irrigation.." [Water] Books http://dld.bz/Nu4U
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "Old Dora versus New Dora?" Feminism Girls Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
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Voters in Davao and GenSan tend to share their political views on the web. @ANCAlerts @Manila_Bulletin @Magic899 http://dld.bz/JpRu
Russell Simmons: "... operating from a calm space does not mean you're not operating..." [Super Rich] Consciousness http://dld.bz/NjvW
We can’t “see” the strings that are talked about in string theory. [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb universe cosmos
Morozov: Net Delusion: [Western policymakers who seek to support @Facebook-based activism are placing a wild bet.] Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Stephen asks Stephen Sondheim if there ... finishes "Send in the Clowns" with his own lyrics. [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
.. vignettes about all manner of transactions.. [Eduardo Porter: Price of Everything] Nonfiction Books @NYT @NPR http://dld.bz/K7ZA
@JennyMcCarthy wins the Pigasus award for her contribution to the country's ill-health http://dld.bz/FjCQ panicvirus autism mnookin
"... if he come home and find a colored woman up in his kitchen?" [Kathryn Stockett: The Help] Fiction Race Blacks http://dld.bz/N9PV
Ray Kurzweil: the law of accelerating returns is fundamentally an economic theory. [#Singularity.. Near] @singularityu http://dld.bz/JJWm
“The meal’s journey from the soil to the plate…” [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 food diet nonfiction books
Liaquat Ahamed: By 1930, industrial production had fallen 30% in the U.S. [#Pulitzer Prize History Books] http://dld.bz/HXRm @WSJ @CNN
Morozov: The Net Delusion: "a dangerous illusion by suggesting the world can @YouTube its way to Freedom" Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
Oliver Sacks has spent his career examining patients struggling to survive with Alzheimer's disease. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB
"#Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau scooped himself on the first openly gay character in... [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
George Friedman: "The United States is obviously that sort of power." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
Gideon Rachman: the rise of Asia is increasingly associated with a challenge to American power.. [Zero-Sum Future] @BW http://dld.bz/KkVU
Stephen Baker: "... named after its flesh-and-blood ancestor, @IBM's founder, Thomas J. Watson." [Final Jeopardy] http://dld.bz/NrxD
"Reforming the tax code" merely means that the @GOP will further their agenda of cutting taxes for the wealthiest 2%. http://dld.bz/JjaP
Jonathan Weiner: SENS scribblings of 500 years, 1000 years... were like essays on Aladdin's lamp. [Long for This World] http://dld.bz/KfRt
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Peter Gleick: "All this energy to bottle water, carbonate it... was such a waste." [Bottled and Sold] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/Nt5S
Obama: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me barely registered in my mind." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
Robert B. Reich: Eccles says that mass production and consumption necessitates a distribution of wealth. [Aftershock] http://dld.bz/JjaP
There are only so many ways matter can arrange itself within that infinite universe. [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb
I tested this latest version out on my Sprint HTC EVO 4G http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
Michael Lewis explains how Wall Street got so good at disguising bad loans that they bo... [Stephen Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
Geoffrey Nunberg: "At their conventions, the @GOP refer to themselves as the party of Lincoln." [The Way We Talk Now] http://dld.bz/JgwB
Chauvinism or self-interest is a denial of our common humanity. [Karen Armstrong: 12 Steps To A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Quinnipiac students will have the opportunity to learn from a Pulitzer Prize-winner Wednesday: Isabel Wilkerson. http://dld.bz/HXRf
Edward Glaeser: "... suburbanization is producing an ecological disaster." [Triumph of the City] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/NqHC
You can blame this country's obesity epidemic on big agribusiness!#HFCS [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 food
... touching the face would activate the sensations in the hand area of the brain... [VS Ramachandran: Tell-Tale Brain] http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Edward Glaeser: ".. cities should replace their lengthy permitting processes with a simple system." [Triumph of the City] http://dld.bz/NqHC
"1,000 years ago, Christian monks were busily collecting and investigating the scientific wisdom compiled.." @catholicEW http://dld.bz/Ktxg
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: There is an easy way to test this theory. When was @BillGates born? Nonfiction Books @NPR http://dld.bz/MVcG
.. the trajectory of America's food from gathering to garbage bin.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] @foodgps http://dld.bz/K9QG
"... they make you believe no one will believe you." [Scott Brown: Against All Odds] Abuse Nonfiction @NPR http://dld.bz/NAtT
"... once an arm was amputated, the area in the brain mapped to that arm was ..." {Ramachandran: The Tell-Tale Brain} http://dld.bz/Nh9v
@TysonFoods wants thr products to be better than mere commoditized corn-based prodcuts. @MichaelPollan Omnivore's Dilemma http://dld.bz/HfH5
George Friedman: "#Wars are times of intense technological transformation." [The Next Decade] Books Military Power http://dld.bz/NsTe
More than 55% of the voters in Quezon City went online to get involved in the last election. [Campaigns on the Internet] http://dld.bz/JpRu
Russell Simmons: "And we want to move towards the space where we can be good givers." [Super Rich] Books Nonfiction http://dld.bz/NjvW
“#Religion is at its best when it helps to ask questions that hold us in wonder.” [Karen Armstrong: Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
Ray Kurzweil: This results in a second level of exponential growth... [#Singularity Is Near] @techfuture34 @NJPhysics http://dld.bz/JJWm
Social networks, which are developed for a young person during college, are more valuable than ever before. http://dld.bz/HCAE @Facebook
Barack Obama: "I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes..." [Dreams from My Father] http://dld.bz/N3KY
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: "Even if moms didn't like the dolls... they bought them anyway..." Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
Gideon Rachman: .. the belief that in a world in which democracy and capitalism were on the rise.. [#Zero-Sum Future] http://dld.bz/KkVU
Peter Bergen: "Bin Laden even kept his spokesman in Afghanistan, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, in the dark." [The Longest War] http://dld.bz/N2zp
it lets you surf and stream at whopping 4G speeds http://dld.bz/FFvv htcevo
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: That's on par with Bill gates getting unlimited access to a time-share... Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/MVcG
The Net Delusion: "... election protesters in Iran were able to tweet, blog and record the violence they saw..." Books http://dld.bz/NdXf
One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and d History of What We Owe [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP Books @planetmoney
I'm an oenophile, for sure. I have a wine fridge at the office. http://dld.bz/FCNB wine fridge
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [AT&T and the radio manufacturers wanted radio to transform from hobby to big business] http://dld.bz/JJWm
Edward Glaeser: "... urban planners and preservationists seem to have a misplaced fear of heights." [Triumph of the City] http://dld.bz/NqHC
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire. [The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5
G. Friedman: ".. the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have required few game-changing innovations." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
Global government is unlikely in the twenty-first century... [The Future of American Power] @WhiteHouse @FP_Magazine http://dld.bz/KkVU
Fen Montaigne explains how global warming affects Antarctic penguins and rising sea levels. [Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion] http://dld.bz/JJWm
Nancy Marie Brown: .. for God had created the world according to number, measure, and weight.. [The Abacus and the Cross] http://dld.bz/Ktxg
I used the phrase in a Pentagon press conference one day, and that's when.. [Donald Rumsfeld] @Newsweek @us_navyseals http://dld.bz/K9cd
"#Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau scooped himself on the first openly gay character in... [#Colbert Report Books] http://dld.bz/NJXt
Peter H. Gleick: "Water fountains used to be everywhere." [Bottled and Sold] Books Water Business http://dld.bz/Nt5S
"Students who spend more time in fraternities and sororities don't learn as much." [Academically Adrift] University http://dld.bz/NBqm
George Friedman: "Each Machiavellian President fully understood the uses of power..." [The Next Decade] Books http://dld.bz/NsTe
From Confucius to @Oprah, people have preached compassion for centuries [Karen Armstrong: A Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
The Cascadian Farm is what Joel Salatin has in mind when he talks about an organic empire. [Michael Pollan] http://dld.bz/HfH5 food books
Peter H. Gleick: "Celebrities tout their current favorite brands of bottled water." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
Saturday, February 19, 2011
In the late 90s it was suggested that grey dust could have been ejected from galaxies at early times. [dark energy] http://dld.bz/HDrF @NSF
McGee, a food science expert, explains techniques for kicking recipes up a few notches. @NYTimesFood @LATimesFood http://dld.bz/JgwB
Stephen Baker: "@IBM was producing ever more sophisticated models." [Final Jeopardy] Watson AI Books Read more: http://dld.bz/NrxD
We believe d Galaxy Tab has been an unexpected success considering it runs a version of Android not optimized for tablets http://dld.bz/F8yq
Peter H. Gleick: "Celebrities tout their current favorite brands of bottled water." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
These cosmology issues have a profound impact on the very nature of your everyday life. [Brian Greene: Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb
Glaeser explains how Def Jam Records illustrates the way cities spur artistic innovation. [Triumph of the City] http://dld.bz/NqHC
Students who study by themselves for more hours each week gain more knowledge .. [Academically Adrift] http://dld.bz/NBqm
We know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the Universe's expansion. http://dld.bz/HDrF @SciFri @NYTimesScience
"Always keep it moving. Never sit for too long. Always move." It was a rule that Maria would soon ignore at her peril. http://dld.bz/KfRt
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [AT&T had the power to quash the answering machine, which, a Bell Labs engineer invented] http://dld.bz/JJWm
Sherry Turkle: "I worried whether losing oneself in worlds within the machine would distract us..." Singularity http://dld.bz/JJWm
Jonathan Weiner: They think the conquest of aging is a reasonable goal. [Long for This World] @aubreydegrey @ilparone http://dld.bz/KfRt
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: [having the government run the business presents its own problems] Singularity Technology http://dld.bz/JJWm
Fresh Air is produced in Philadelphia, WHYY Radio. [@NPRFreshAir Books] http://dld.bz/JgwB @NPR @NYT Interesting Books
Food producers have pursued new niches with growing violence. [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 nonfiction book
"The quest to find Methuselah mutants has led to a whole bestiary of genes and..." [Jonathan Weiner, Long for this World] http://dld.bz/KfRt
Most frozen "organic" products are assembled in labs. [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 good nonfiction books
Peter H. Gleick: "Many have started to reduce their bottled water purchases." [Bottled and Sold] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/Nt5S
"I don't think you ought to be joking around about the colored situation." [Kathryn Stockett: The Help] Fiction Books http://dld.bz/N9PV
If only U knew wht places like @Outback had done 2 beef steer that they serve up, U'd never eat meat agn. @Michael Pollan http://dld.bz/HfH5
Milled, refined, recompounded corn can become any number of things: ethanol gas, high fructose corn syrup (“sugar”)... http://dld.bz/HfH5
"Students whose classes reflect high expectations learned more." [Academically Adrift] University @NPR @NYT http://dld.bz/NBqm
Peter H. Gleick: "#Public water is increasingly pushed out in favor of private control and profit." [Bottled and Sold] http://dld.bz/Nt5S
String theory posits that the entire universe can be explained in terms of strings [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] http://dld.bz/H4Pb
Friedman: "The U.S.'s indebtedness does not reduce its ability to affect the international system." [The Next Decade] http://dld.bz/NsTe
Edward Glaeser: "... urban planners and preservationists seem to have a misplaced fear of heights." [Triumph of the City] http://dld.bz/NqHC
"Students who spend more time in fraternities and sororities learn less." [Academically Adrift] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/NBqm
Peter Bergen: "He warned Osama bin Laden about the exact timing and scope of the attacks." [The Longest War] Books http://dld.bz/N2zp
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would be in the best.. http://dld.bz/MVcG
Maryn McKenna: MRSA can infect the inside of bones. [Superbug] @Google @NYT @NPR @BarackObama @FDA @ParisHilton http://dld.bz/JgwB
The U.S. economy depends on poor people's savings to keep it from falling apart. @Bloomberg [The New Empire of Debt] http://dld.bz/JjaP
@LPNational: "#Wages and prices should be allowed to fall, thereby clearing the system of waste." see: Aftershock @WSJ http://dld.bz/JjaP
Peggy Orenstein: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Bratz dolls were "aimed to catch girls just as they aged out..." Books http://dld.bz/MYhU
Corn has been turned into a dietary agent of evil. [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5 high fructose corn syrup
".. in the past decade, d Las Vegas police have rescued 1,518 juveniles forced into prostitution.." [Somebody's Daughter] http://dld.bz/KfRt
Edward Glaeser: "Problem: if you don’t build up, you build out." [Triumph of the City] Urban Planning Books http://dld.bz/NqHC
Peter H. Gleick: "Many have started to reduce their bottled water purchases." [Bottled and Sold] Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/Nt5S
Grimmway Farms owns Cal-Organic, the most ubiquitous organic brand out there. [Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma] http://dld.bz/HfH5
David Hoffman had access to secret Kremlin documents while researching his book, "The Dead Hand." @KremlinRussia_E @NPR http://dld.bz/HXRf
Blame this country's obesity problem on drinks that are high n HFCS like @Snapple. C Michael Pollan: Omnivore's Dilemma http://dld.bz/HfH5
@RBReich Blames Economy's Woes On Income Disparity. [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP @WSJ_Econ @EconUS Unemployment Jobs
@STurkle: We seek robots as an easy substitute for the difficulty of dealing with others. @singularityu [Alone Together] http://dld.bz/JJWm
To understand all of food waste's moral implications.. [Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland] Nonfiction @Eater http://dld.bz/K9QG
Only 4% of Americans consider the deficit to be the country's most pressing issue. [#Economics in America] http://dld.bz/JjaP Poor Money
The British writer’s focus is outward, on its social and political impact. [Karen Armstrong: 12 Steps Compassionate Life] http://dld.bz/HtCM
"... once an arm was amputated, the area in the brain mapped to that arm was ..." {Ramachandran: The Tell-Tale Brain} http://dld.bz/Nh9v
Sherry Turkle: we seem content with treating each other as things. [Alone Together] Technology Nonfiction Books http://dld.bz/JJWm
"#ICU staff sedated Tony and slid a tube down his throat turning the work of breathing over to a ventilator." [Superbug] http://dld.bz/JgwB
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