October 2011
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Check Your Emotional Baggage in Exchange for a... →
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Remember GeoCities? Explore a Map of the Vintage... →
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Can Yelp Help Independent Restaurants Drive Chains... →
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Medical Breakthroughs: Scientists figure out how... →
The peanut allergy is one of the eight most common types of food allergies, and the common use of peanuts in a wide range of foods makes it particularly dangerous.
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Multitasking // This is your brain on media......
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"Temporary Marriages" Would Let Couples Opt Out... →
Til death do us part just got a ‘get out of jail free’ card from the Mexican government, who seeks to create ‘temporary’ marriage of sorts just in case you want a bail out early into the union…. NICE.
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Nutrition: 10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won't... →
Every other week, new research claims one food is better than another, or that some ingredient yields incredible new health benefits. Couple that with a few old wives’ tales passed down from your parents, and each time you fire up your stove or sit down to eat a healthy meal, it can be difficult…
September 2011
3 posts
“Many problems, signs of hope in New Orleans” http://t.co/Zr8kM34 #neworleans #nola #business #bytopic #byregion
Video: TEDxUIUC - Sherry Turkle - Alone Together (by TEDxTalks) http://t.co/NESKOzM
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June 2011
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March 2011
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Women less interested than men in jobs where... →
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Entrepreneurship & US
% of Chinese who say they intend to start a business within the next 3 years= 23
% of Colombians and Americans, respectively, who say this= 57, 7
source: (4-2010 harpers index)
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"[Cornell] Study links warm offices to fewer... →
“Study links warm offices to fewer typing errors and higher productivity”… I don’t believe it! Arctic temperatures make me crazy productive! and by arctic I mean 65-69 degrees!
According to the daily stat’s synopsis of this Cornell study:
JULY 15, 2010
Chilly Offices Limit Productivity
Raising the temperature of an insurance company’s offices ...
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Gravity is trying to kill us with Fire... the...
You may think it’s child’s play, a second grade science lesson, or maybe you think its just plain dumb. But truth be told, fire is an astonishing phenomenon in the most basic ways and a review of just what fire would be like under certain conditions makes science that much more intriguing when you forget there’s a science behind it at all…
The picture shown is of two...
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Where in the world is...Val Verde? →
According to Wikipedia: “Val Verde is a fictional country used by Hollywood filmmakers (mostly 20th Century Fox) when they require a South/Central American country without getting into legal or diplomatic disputes. In general it is a Spanish-speaking country resembling Cuba or Nicaragua.
APPEARANCES IN FILM AND TELEVISION:
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Commando (1985)
Predator (1987), Arnold Schwarzenegger’s...
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Stickers replace tweets - "Low-Tech Project... →
Candy Chang’s “I wish this Was” project offers the public a voice in what the community (particularly NOLA) needs are by providing blank stickers for said needs to be written and then stuck in the area in which the needs apply. Additionally, on her personal site, Candy Chang adds that they are “also developing a digital version called Neighborland that will help residents...
January 2011
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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior - WSJ.com →
November 2010
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What Alcohol Actually Does to Your Brain and Body... →
Muy muy interesante!!
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Twins who Share Brains Thoughts & Senses | GizModo →
“Their brains and sensory systems are networked together, but they have separate personalities…” Read More.
October 2010
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McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for... →
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Gizmodo Explains: "Why You Look Different in... →
Well I’ll be damned, I was just wondering this very things today! Plunge away!
-daPlunga
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Frederico Diaz's New Sculpture Was Made Entirely... →
Hmmm Ray Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines begins to run its course… much like A PAINTING I one made while contemplating art by bots - “If you take all of the keys off of a keyboard is it a keyboard anymore?” -MB
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HBR.org: Tattoos: No Longer a Barrier to the Cubicle http://web.hbr.org/ds/100110
September 2010
13 posts
India will use monkey security force for... →
http://su.pr/8Jdb9d All-Salt: A Naturally Harvested Cure for Everything that Ails You (@GOOD Stuff)
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Addictive Internet Use Tied to Depression in Teens →
Children as young as four can understand irony http://t.co/eHF2ZGe via @io9
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Children and adults see the world in fundamentally... →
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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup | Both Sides... →
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Mississippi River Brimming with Dead Fish Near... →
omgfactsofficial:
Lightning strikes the earth approximately 8,640,00 times per day.
That makes for 100 lightning strikes PER SECOND!
(source)
omgfactsofficial:
Saturn could float in the water.
Saturn is the least dense planet in our solar system. It’s only 1/10 as dense as Earth and about 2/3 as dense as water. If you’re less dense than water, you can float.
However, Saturn is 95 times as massive as Earth. It’s the second most massive planet after Jupiter. Still, the force of gravity on Saturn is only a little more than on...
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WatchAlt-rock icon struggles to make a comeback after fire - CNN.com
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Whole Foods CEO attacked rival online - Business -... →
Antitrust violations… for 7 KNOWN years (god only knows what other fake identities MACKEY took online to influence buy-outs over that period) HACKEY would be a more appropriate username for your future fake financial analysis online. Violate the TOS/privacy policy of whatever site he was using = FTC/SEC penalties/federal pounding in the —- penalties. Nice try Whole Foods CEO, hope...
The #bangitoutshow Ep. 12 iVacuate iPhone App,... →
A snoball-induced episode of NewOrleanstech.net’s podcast, The #BangItOut show.
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Venture Capital Spirit Boosts New Orleans After... →
Another great article/feature story on an amazing entrepreneur & New Orleanian: Chris Schultz! Chris is a great example of ‘being the change’ we need in the world, we hope you think so to after reading this Portfolio article…
August 2010
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New evidence that it was once possible to sail... →
Elite Grads Report Lower Job Satisfaction
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"Why Hackers love 8 character passwords" from... →
How to create a ‘super password’ - CNN.com
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PolicyMound: Why do so many lawyers turn to... →
From NPR’s ALL THINGS CONSIDERED July 27th with Richard Patterson…
“Why do so many lawyers turn to fiction?
RICHARD PATTERSON (Author, “In the Name of Honor”): Well, they may be desperate to leave their current profession for one thing, but aside from that, if you think about what…
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Versatile Louisiana becomes 'L.A. South' for movie... →
July 2010
16 posts
Transparency: Which Governments Demand Google Remove Information (from GOOD) http://bit.ly/bf10Gm
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Apple's Real Achilles Heel - Umair Haque - Harvard... →
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The Story of Cosmetics - No More Dirty Looks -... →
A comic-strip representation of the ‘dirty’ cosmetics industry and the ingredients within…. it’s well, GOOD! Thanks Good Magazine (www.good.is) for yet another marvelous visual (we love Good’s infographics by the way) that surprisingly isnt an infographic!
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