May 2013
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Goodbye Mr. Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr.
One of the most inspired rock piano solos, beautiful song.
May 21st
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Population growth and climate change explained by Hans Rosling 
May 18th
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Evgeny Morozov on technology: The folly of... →
May 9th
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April 2013
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Programming language for life
Researchers at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (aka, BIOFAB) have just announced that they have, in effect, established rules for the first language for engineering gene expression, the layer between the genome and all the dynamic processes of life… … allowing researchers to engineer the function of DNA more precisely, and to better predict the resultant...
Apr 21st
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Apr 19th
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Apr 12th
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“Drones are just the latest in a long line of military technologies augmenting...”
– Read more: Dronestagram: The Drone’s-Eye View
Apr 7th
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If you think criticising Islam is racist, you must think Islam is a race. And if you think Islam is a race you are a racist. — Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) 4 de abril de 2013
Apr 4th
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Selling Your Most Personal Item: You →
The era of genetic-based advertising is coming, and it could be just as profitable.
Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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“En un cajón hay un puñal. Fue forjado en Toledo, a fines del siglo pasado; Luis...”
– http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
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March 2013
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Unweaving the Rainbow
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because...
Mar 27th
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Everything the donating public has been taught about giving is dysfunctional, says AIDS Ride founder Dan Pallotta. via @TEDtalks
Mar 18th
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No man in history has ever listened to a woman Dr. John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, discusses some listening techniques to help men pay better attention to women. via foratv
Mar 14th
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February 2013
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Feb 26th
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 20th
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What's the meaning of life?
Finally an answer: WolframAlpha
Feb 19th
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Feb 15th
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Who controls the world? James B. Glattfelder begins to answer this question. Ideas relating to finance, economics, politics, society, are very often tainted by people’s personal ideologies. I really hope that this complexity perspective allows for some common ground to be found.
Feb 14th
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ListenUpdate: me equivoqué de fecha, fue el domingo...
Feb 13th
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“My training as a scientist allows me to stare at an unknown and not run away,...”
– Yale’s Ainissa Ramirez on the future of science education (via explore-blog)
Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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“Esta nueva era se caracteriza por la carestía de los alimentos y la propagación...”
– La nueva geopolítica de los alimentos - periodismohumano
Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
Interesante entrevista a Baltasar Garzón en Cadena SER. 8 de Febrero de 2013
Feb 8th
January 2013
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Evan Williams & Biz Stone discuss their new publishing platform Medium.com with Charlie Rose
Jan 31st
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ListenEverybody, come on!
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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ListenDiscovering Conlon Nancarrow
Jan 23rd
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Clever Vladimir Nabokov’s interviewon literature and life, 1969
Jan 20th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 6th
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Emily Whitehead: girl whose cancer was 'cured' by... →
A seven-year-old girl has become the first child leukaemia patient to be successfully treated by doctors using a disabled form of the virus that causes Aids to reprogramme the immune system.
Jan 4th
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About the term "Expert"
“Power is like being a lady; if you have to say you are, you aren’t.” (Margaret Thatcher) Show your expertise instead.
Jan 4th
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“We spend our lives trying to build ourselves into something that other people...”
– Erika Napoletano, from her talk, “Be unpopular,” at TEDxBoulder. (via tedx)
Jan 3rd
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December 2012
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Human Gene Patenting: Yes, Companies Can Own Your... →
The idea of patenting a gene seems strange, and it’s a practice that’s made weirder by virtue of the fact that the genes of living humans can also be patented. How is this possible? And what are the potential pitfalls? Here’s what you need to know about the current state of human gene patents — and why the current laws need to be reconsidered.
Dec 28th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 14th
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Things to think up front when you start a company.  by Jason Fried, from 37signals.
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Scientist of the world, stop working for evil companies. Embrace open source science. Ellen ‘t Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives. Very interesting talk.
Dec 11th
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November 2012
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Nov 27th
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artHERE - Connecting spaces and art ArtHERE is a project for crowd-sourced urban revitalization. via humanscalecities
Nov 23rd
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