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December 2011
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November 2011
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“Dr Love says 8 hugs a day”
Paul Zak: Trust, morality - and oxytocin, from TEDGlobal 2011
Seriously interesting talk! Definitely worth watching.
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October 2011
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How can you “ignore” jazz? It’s like someone else’s...
– Ian Martin (writer for The Thick Of It), ‘Hotel jazz muzak and kippers – my minibreak ordeal reminded me why I never go away’, The Guardian
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Wild Wolf Woman is a style we do particularly well in the UK, though of course...
– - Laura Barton, ‘Wild things: Florence and the Machine and the wild she-wolves’, The Guardian
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IT’S A BABY. I’m not sure it tells us much about the nature of user interfaces...
– - Tom Phillips, ‘A Baby Is An Analogy That Does Not Work’, Flashboy dot org
Responding to this video of a baby playing with an iPad, entitled ‘A Magazine Is An iPad That Does Not Work’
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17th October 1814: At the Horse Shoe Brewery on Tottenham Court Road, a colossal...
– ‘This Week In London’s History’ — Londonist
READ more over on Londonist
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Two-and-a half years on, that exciting new wave of non-acoustic electronic pop...
– Peter Robinson, ‘Sorry, Adele, but Someone Like You has ushered in The New Boring’, The Guardian
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September 2011
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“Earlier experiments have shown how difficult the task is. Wikipedia...
– - ‘Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare’, BBC News
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Ask yourself who is paying for Facebook. Usually the people who are paying are...
– Douglas Rushkoff at Hello Etsy Conference, Berlin
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
– Richard Feynman
(via scienceisbeauty)
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Grace Potter & The Nocturnals covering Beyoncé’s ‘Why Don’t You Love Me’
Grace Potter = amazing.
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August 2011
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Results revealed that while people explicitly claimed to desire creative ideas,...
– - PhysOrg, ‘People are biased against creative ideas, studies find’
Brilliant. Excuse me while I…
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You can’t download a personality. There’s no way to translate the data. But the...
– - Zoe Graystone, Caprica
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When I made this video I realized that a good 50 or 60 percent of the music...
– - Moby speaking to Wired UK about his new video
WATCH the video for ‘Lie Down in Darkeness’ over on Wired
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Mr Christensen and his colleagues list five habits of mind that characterise...
– Schumpeter - ‘Think Different’, The Economist: Blogs
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Speaking of unexpectedly awesome covers, here’s Type O Negative’s unexpectedly awesome cover version of ‘Summer Breeze’
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