May 2013
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Goodbye Mr. Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr.
One of the most inspired rock piano solos, beautiful song.
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Population growth and climate change explained by Hans Rosling
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Evgeny Morozov on technology: The folly of... →
April 2013
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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...
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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...
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Everything the donating public has been taught about giving is dysfunctional, says AIDS Ride founder Dan Pallotta.
via @TEDtalks
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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
February 2013
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What's the meaning of life?
Finally an answer: WolframAlpha
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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.
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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)
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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
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Interesante entrevista a Baltasar Garzón en Cadena SER.
8 de Febrero de 2013
January 2013
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Evan Williams & Biz Stone discuss their new publishing platform Medium.com with Charlie Rose
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Clever Vladimir Nabokov’s interviewon literature and life, 1969
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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.
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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.
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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)
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.
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Things to think up front when you start a company.
by Jason Fried, from 37signals.
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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.
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November 2012
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artHERE - Connecting spaces and art ArtHERE is a project for crowd-sourced urban revitalization.
via humanscalecities