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Dec 31st

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Transcending the Human, DIY Style →

Lepht Anonym wants everyone to know the door to transcending normal human capabilities is no farther away than your own kitchen. It’s just going to hurt like a sonofabitch. Anonym is a biohacker, a woman who has spent the last several years learning how to extend her own senses by putting tiny magnets and other electronic devices under her own skin, allowing her to feel electromagnetic...

Dec 31st

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Dec 27th

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Dec 26th

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Dec 25th

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Dec 25th

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BEST ALBUMS OF 2010 - part 4

★ While I am working on my best-of-2010 mix, I figured I’d post the last installment of my best of charts for 2010 [part1, part2+part3]. Here it is: Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have [Hyperdub] Digital Mystikz - Return II Space [DMZ] Skream - Outside The Box [Tempa] Elektro Guzzi - Elektro Guzzi [Macro] John Roberts - Glass Eights [Dial] Brandt Brauer Frick - You Make Me Real...

Dec 25th

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When The New Yorker Probes the "Decline Effect,"... →

At the New Yorker last week, science journalist Jonah Lehrer penned a conversation-starting feature on the so-called “decline effect,” the tendency across scientific fields for a new and exciting finding to eventually lose its dramatic qualities and excitement. Why? Because subsequent replications and studies poke holes in the certainty of the original observations and conclusions.

Dec 24th

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Why Social Closeness Matters →

There is considerable evidence that social species develop mechanisms to aid in identifying and evaluating kin, in-group members, and individuals otherwise relevant to one’s survival. Considering social cognition from this perspective, neural mechanisms may have evolved for distinguishing personally significant social information

Dec 24th

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Cultural goldmine lurks in digitized books →

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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ballad of the black gold

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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The future of English →

The days of English as the world’s second language may (slowly) be ending

Dec 21st

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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Charles Munka’s one week Work in Progress at Naço gallery

Dec 19th

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The Misconception: You are one person, and your... →

The Truth: You are multiple selves, and happiness is based on satisfying all of them. Kahneman’s research suggests that you have to be happy in the flow of time while simultaneously creating memories you can look back on later.

Dec 18th

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Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid →

Dec 18th

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Dec 17th

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Ukrainian Firm Hires Out Drinking Buddies →

It’s cheap at the price — for 14 euros, a Ukrainian firm hires out drinking buddies to help while away the evenings in the industrial town of Dniprodzerzhynsk. The service is proving very popular.

Dec 17th

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Dec 17th

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ninja unboxing →

Dec 17th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 14th

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Dec 14th

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Wikileaks' Assange Wins TIME Person of Year Reader... →

Dec 14th

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fear of ones own glance →

On the basis of the Japanese diagnostic system, phobia of one’s own glance is characterized by a fear of one’s own glance, which they believe assumes an offensive nature and is uncontrollably directed at persons near them.

Dec 14th

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Brooklyn's Williamsburg becomes new front line of... →

New York’s long cycle of gentrification has a new frontier – but the tattooed bloggers of Brooklyn know their chances of halting the march of commerce are slim at best

Dec 13th

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Dec 12th

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Dec 12th

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Financial incentives and the brain's reward system →

Behavioural economics and the psychology of decision-making have rich histories, but with emerging brain imaging technology, we’re now able to peer into some of the intricacies of neural processes as they occur while someone is making an important financial decision. The hope is that studies of brain activity will help guide economic theory and practice.

Dec 12th

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