Category: Headlines

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  January 10, 2011

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  VANITY FAIR: Huffing and Puffing – The wannabe scandal behind the Huffington Post’s origins
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  January 10, 2011

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  The field of economics has taken a beating over the past couple of years. For all their brilliant models and complex analyses, most economists completely failed to predict the disastrous outcome of the housing bubble. Was the problem simply a feature of an imperfect discipline or the result of biases on the part of many…
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  January 9, 2011

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  msbojangles: Roadsidepictures
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  January 9, 2011

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  Nike Sportswear Women’s Premium Print Pack: Made from shredded glossy magazines (amongst other things). [via]

• Political Ideology Linked to Brain Anatomy

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  January 8, 2011

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  Political Ideology Linked to Brain Anatomy In particular, scientists in the UK observed that conservatives tended to have a larger amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for emotion and anxiety, and a smaller anterior cingulate, which supplies bravery and optimism. From the Telegraph: Prof Geraint Rees, who led the research, said: “We were very…
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  January 8, 2011

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  Via animalnewyork: Madrid’s art troupe Luzinterruptus hung 1000 lit envelopes filled with poems at La Casa de América for a poetry festival.
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  January 8, 2011

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  January 8, 2011

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  Via skysignal: “Bodies” Fill Underwater Sculpture Park Photograph courtesy Jason deCaires Taylor The people in “The Silent Evolution”  were created from live casts of a wide sample of people, most of them locals—including Lucky, a Mexican carpenter (center), according to Taylor. The characters range in age from a 3-year-old boy, Santiago, to an 85-year-old nun, Rosario (both…
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  January 8, 2011

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  Henry Klumb’s House in San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Jim Harbaugh Chases Pete Carroll to the NFC West

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  January 8, 2011

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  Headlines, Sport

  Stanford’s head coach gets the chance to renew his rivalry with Pete Carroll in the NFL’s lowliest conference.
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  January 8, 2011

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  For me, Lynch’s movies’ deconstruction of this weird irony of the banal has affected the way I see and organize the world. I’ve noted since 1986 (when Blue Velvet was released) that a good 65 percent of the people in metropolitan bus terminals between the hours of midnight and 6 A.M. tend to qualify as…
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  January 7, 2011

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  The perfect house (if you are a cat). [Thanks to Andy for the link.]