pinboard July 21, 2012

• Bill Moyers Essay: Living Under the Gun | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
• The Aurora Movie Theatre Shooting and American Gun Culture : The New Yorker
• The Certainty of More Shootings – James Fallows – The Atlantic
• Mona Lisa’s Skeleton Found? : Discovery News
• Two Tough Guys Meet Tough Times, And Each Other : NPR
  ‘Back in 2008, "Boston" Bill Hansbury was learning to live with a prosthetic after losing his leg to an infection. That’s when he met Jake Bainter, who was about to have his right leg amputated…’
• The Jeremy Lin Debate No One Wants to Have: The Q: GQ
• Aurora Shooting – We’ve Seen This Before – NYTimes.com
  Immediately after a shooting last month in the food court of the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto, a young woman named Jessica Ghawi posted a blog entry. Three minutes before a gunman opened fire, she had been seated at the exact place he fired from.

  “I was shown how fragile life was,” she wrote. “I saw the terror on bystanders’ faces. I saw the victims of a senseless crime. I saw lives change. I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time on Earth will end. When or where we will breathe our last breath.”

  This same woman was one of the fatalities at the midnight screening in Aurora.

• 30 Awesome Behind The Scenes Photos From Old Movies
• Spike in Shootings, Murders Creates ‘Wild, Wild Midwest’ Effect in Chicago – The Daily Beast
• The Apollo 11 Journey in Photographs – Alexis Madrigal – The Atlantic
• Store a Password In Your Brain Without Remembering it | Australian Popular Science
• The ebbing of the body politic
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• Noisy Typer – a typewriter for your laptop. | F.A.T.
• In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism – NYTimes.com
• The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy (pdf with notes)

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