Entries from April 2012 ↓

• Neil Gaiman interviews Stephen King – http://t.co/q7FvUvLh
• Tough policy. | jwz
• Men Seek Their Place in a New World – NYTimes.com
• Really worth watching @monaeltahawy Debating her Foreign Policy essay on women in the Middle East with Prof Leila Ahmed http://t.co/6Rh9pbND
• ons-name-analysis/find_interesting.py at master · annapowellsmith/ons-name-analysis · GitHub

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• The 7 Best Pictures Of A Baby Elephant Playing At A Beach Of All Time – BuzzFeed Mobile
• BBC News – Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash
• Rookie » How to Be a Lady
• No one has any money – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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• The New Inquiry
• For fans of felines: Watch 16-min. film "CatCam" online – winner of best documentary short, Tribeca Online Film Fest. http://t.co/BF5zPRmB
• Daily Dose With Jillian Michaels – Tara Mohr Tackles Female Speech Habits – YouTube
• This Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures. It Describes Them. – NYTimes.com
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• How can I pass the string "Null" through wsdl (SOAP) from AS3 to ColdFusion web service without receiving a "missing parameter error"? – Stack Overflow
• Rick Reilly: Rockies pitcher’s Twitter friendship – ESPN
• Fancy – Solar Window Charger by XD Design
• I love this so much. http://t.co/5csHRMLK
• Or ever. RT @stevesilberman The most arresting photo of a bear you’ll see today. http://t.co/4tz7ghBL
• New Yorker: Discovery of treasure worth billions of dollars in southern India – http://t.co/sPYD3Zkn /via @jamesoreilly
• The Page by Mark Halperin | Clinton and Colbert at the TIME 100
• xkcd: Emotion
• Rare Protozoan from Sludge in Norwegian Lake Does Not Fit On Main Branches of Tree of Life – – – ScienceDaily – http://t.co/OYKVf4Ge
• Public Radio Name Generator– name yourself today! — www.publicradionamegenerator.com — Readability
• The Internet gets a hall of fame (yes including Al Gore) — www.cnn.com — Readability

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• Simply gorgeous Yosemite timelapse video – http://t.co/Ly17rmu4
• "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem | Mother Jones
• Video: Christopher Hitchens Remembered by Vanity Fair | Video | Vanity Fair

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• Turning 30: 30 Things Every Woman Should Have And Should Know – The Huffington Post
• Wow. @nytimesphoto: "I thought I’d seen every type of photo of marine life – until now" re @DavidDoubilet pics http://t.co/8FMDETJo
• Does Brain Scanning Show Just the Tip of the Iceberg? | The Crux | Discover Magazine

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• THIS. "I’m the President of the United States—[I] only finished paying off [my] student loans about eight years ago." http://t.co/U96qfVEm
• Bullying the Nuns by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
• How to Make Better Scrambled Eggs
• Ginger Scallion Sauce: An Explosive Recipe
• Sexy open source time series visualization: http://t.co/LovJJeID
• SMBC — Bookish shirt
• PagedQuery – he3-appengine-lib – PagedQuery homepage – Python libraries and utilities for Google App Engine – Google Project Hosting
  PagedQuery is a paging abstraction that is applied to appengine Query or GQLQuery objects.
• More hard evidence against widespread novel forms of RNA editing – this time from mice: http://t.co/TmoZRKSO
• Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? Disturbing, compelling take on digital impoverishment. http://t.co/d0yFKHwM via @ryanchittum
• CNET Mobile – News
• Wireless Home Music Systems and HiFi Music Players from Sonos
• A very brave piece by Mona Eltahawy in FP about Arab women and the Arab men who fear them. http://t.co/dj5JlwiT

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• Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies | poster
• All the interestingness you missed last week – Sir Ken Robinson on passion, 17 equations that changed the world & more http://t.co/BfaQPt2W
• Radiological investigation of a >2000-yr-old Egyptian mummy of a cat http://t.co/bo7mDfjS Animals were bred specifically for mummification
• Are you eating these brain-saving foods? | Fox News
• The top 25 technology books of all time | VentureBeat
• TO DO: Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy. (@paulg) http://t.co/lhbykaC4
• The online copyright war: the day the internet hit back at big media — www.guardian.co.uk

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• Brain Seeks THE Voice Among Many Speakers — www.scientificamerican.com — Readability
• Protein intermediate and its role in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. http://t.co/mlmfqu8V
• University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm. – Forbes
• Neuroscientists discover key protein responsible for controlling nerve cell protection
• Wonderful piece by @monaeltahawy: Why Do They Hate Us? http://t.co/OChog73C #Feminism #WarOnWomen
• Why Do They Hate Us? – By Mona Eltahawy | Foreign Policy
• People Who Don’t Know How to Spell “Cologne”
• Specific protein triggers changes in neurons in brain reward center linked to cocaine addiction
• MIT’s Gehry-designed Computer Science and AI center, from the roof of the Green building, the tallest in Cambridge. http://t.co/pNVrLTF9
• Has the ‘new man’ triumphed at last? | Life and style | The Guardian
• If You Have a Smart Phone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move | Disinformation
• Nobel laureate in physics Steven Weinberg on the big science crisis: http://t.co/kM3vEfQJ
• How does a startup out-recruit Google? Palantir cofounder Stephen Cohen explains. http://t.co/NmAkhu1i via @garrytan
• Philip Gould, whom I wish I had known better, contemplates his own death with astonishing honesty and love: http://t.co/FGqKgMap
• lakshmivyas/hyde
  Static website generator inspired by Jekyll , written in python
• Composer Makes Music From Positron Trails in Cloud Chambers via @wireduk http://t.co/IwVkJPL5
• Always a smile-inducer: Spike Jonze’s handmade stop-motion love story for book lovers http://t.co/AScwTjbn
• asymco » Apple Stores have seventeen times better performance than the average retailer
• Hover – domain name and email management made simple
• Girls In Tech hold their own in a guy’s world
• RT MeFi http://t.co/1yZWK9Zi IBNIZ: Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo. Because Brainf*ck was too comprehensible. #asplode
• Don’t Be Evil but Don’t Miss the Tech Train – NYTimes.com

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• How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death http://t.co/vqvenv9q
• What’s out your window? What’s on your screen? What’s on your mind? Postcards From The Now: http://t.co/yqBxGX8E
• Change of pace: everyone please read @supriyan’s great new piece about soccer invading Mumbai’s top cricket park. http://t.co/z5rYDvYT
• Kolbert: what else do we need to prove that pesticides are killing all the bees? http://t.co/6cbAHhNm
• Sex differences in intimate relationships : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group
• Robert Shiller’s Mission to Redeem Finance – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
• "The 50 Best Science Writers of All Time "? A list of interesting scientist/authors. http://t.co/cM4u3c05
• Stunning Images of Saturn’s Rings in Crisp Detail – Atlantic Mobile
• So wild that these rings and moons of Saturn’s are real, actual things existing out there in space. Incredible video: http://t.co/KwLj71i9
• Authentication on App Engine / Python / Django non-rel over JSON – Stack Overflow

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• Senate Blocks Buffett Rule With 51-45 Vote – The Consumerist
• Tsetse flies are weird. They give birth to live young, feed babies w milk, & depend on bacterium called Wigglesworthia http://t.co/gXJxGD6u
• Jonathan Haidt on "WEIRD" subculture: western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic http://t.co/dnfpA0cb
• Daniel Kahneman et al show that money really can buy happiness — up to a very specific point, ie $50,000 http://t.co/lEvqjDOV
• Exotic Travel? Take Your Precautions Seriously. (Or Die.) | Wired Science | Wired.com
• Research shows that what works for men to have power, and women is entirely different. http://t.co/H08zai7K
• The Guardian’s Open 20: fighters for internet freedom http://t.co/dggYvlak via @guardian = great list.
• This photograph is beautiful even before you know what it’s of: Enceladus, Titan and Saturn’s rings. http://t.co/aDTy96zx Via @Explorer
• New study in Nature: "What we currently call breast cancer should be thought of as 10 completely separate diseases": http://t.co/7nBLkSPg
• DNA study finds deeper antiquity of polar bear species http://t.co/2Ot0GdWv via @dotearth
• swissmiss | Should I Check my Email?
• Closing the gender pay gap requires closing the information gap. http://t.co/YLB6Xi2j
• iPhone 4 Case Retro Audio Cassette Tape by caseosaurus on Etsy
• Mashable – The Social Media Guide
• Jervis Bay Territory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Gazing onto the world’s whitest sands – New South Wales – Australia – Travel
• Jacaranda – Hyams Beach – South Coast, NSW
• Introducing the data journalism handbook | News | guardian.co.uk
• Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 – chicagotribune.com
• The Costa Concordia Sinking: Inside the Epic Fight for Survival | Culture | Vanity Fair
• Apple Defends 4G Label on Australian iPad
• Android, Java, and the tech behind Oracle v. Google (FAQ) | Business Tech – CNET News
• It Was The Eighth Subscription Card That Convinced Me | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
• The Leaked Pulitzer Fiction Memos : The New Yorker
  heh
• The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic
• Stephen Colbert Calls Out Rick Santorum’s Latest Lie in His War on College
• And the Winner of the Pulitzer Isn’t – NYTimes.com
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• Baseball in the Time of Cholera – The Huffington Post
• Yahoo! News
• Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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