Entries from November 2011 ↓

• Fascinating: Banishing consciousness — the mystery of anaesthesia – http://t.co/SNnlCT8L
• RT @danariely: Google Talks Presents: Daniel Kahneman http://t.co/p3hMDJf0
• Interesting, and good to see -ve results published: MT: “@vaughanbell: Astra Zeneca publish negative trial in NEJM http://t.co/QLoJbSmO
• Bwahahaha – @bengreenman invents the Twitdot: http://t.co/kc0S9DJB
• Holy shit. Via @GlennF, Carrier IQ tracks all user actions on most Android, BlackBerry, Nokia phones. http://t.co/qkbfNFPA
• Dressed for Distress. My sadness at young women’s clothing choices. With added Wonder Woman. Blog post from me. http://t.co/4n92Tss9
• RT @newsycombinator: I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make http://t.co/UpDQkgSd
• Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 131, Grace Paley
• "You must realize I’ve never had “ideas” about poetry," Philip Larkin told the @parisreview: http://t.co/d4oMCd0Z
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• The future of technology means making the computer disappear | Tech News and Analysis
• What the heck is Electronic Mail? http://t.co/okk3detQ
• Smart Piece Explaining Why BarneyFrank is Retiring: Blames #Gingrich 4 Destroying Collegiality in House http://t.co/gfEyjnah @abbygoodnough

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• You Won’t Get Fired for Using #Apache – http://t.co/4AHTMnSm long, thoughtful post #git #github #opensource
• Stress & Alzheimer’s: chronic stress exacerbates AD neuropathogenesis in mouse model via corticotropin-releasing factor http://t.co/8egTvmhL
• Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell http://t.co/OppYd5Aa http://t.co/7lWSKtr3
• Achewood’s hiatus ends — special link for Twitter followers: http://t.co/zBZ55oVR #achewood — pass it around.
• Photo of the Day: Storm Chasing, Saskatchewan http://t.co/Ve9nG4E2 #pod #photography
• #Marmite spread. On the M1. You love it or hate it http://t.co/qhHpSqbl
• Soft plastic "moldie" robots are starting up, like in WETWARE http://t.co/IYPgoGqx
• Rare footage of James Joyce in Paris: http://t.co/FAXpj47s Joyce reads from Finnegans Wake: http://t.co/gM2E2ccL
• Ken Kesey’s Magic Trip: Merry Pranksters redux http://t.co/TksHrl7Q
• Great pic RT @parand: For those who are curious, this is what Tehran looks like: http://t.co/5DKG9Htg
• DEAD ON. Jamie Zawinski (know this name) on the con that demolishes the youth of so many programmers. http://t.co/Q2EtHae2
• Super neat. RT @cstheory: Enumeration of non-orientable 3-manifolds using face pairing graphs and union-find http://t.co/tMqfQ0C7
• RT @DanielPink via @brainpicker: Gold. The essential John Locke in 3 animated minutes http://t.co/FAblM6L5
• Nifty infographic showing U.S. Thanksgiving travels via 4squ checkins – http://t.co/AaYcrK0G
• Interesting piece on McKinsey, where I once worked as library/office factotum in era of Waterman and Peters: http://t.co/TtSY5zHi
• Apple iPhone 4 Self-Combusts on Australian Flight http://t.co/tHELxdIA
• So glad someone took the time to document these animation/ui transition patterns! http://t.co/mI06QesE
• A digital photo tweak-edness score. Nifty. http://t.co/JvDMBMz5
• Gina Trapani – Google+ – Book recommendation: +Scott Berkun's Mindfire: Big Ideas…
• Deploying ThinkUp to the cloud with juju | Ubuntu Cloud Portal

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• You should be surfing in Fiji: http://t.co/4ZRHTaiA (@coudal)
• Epic, thoughtful post from @om: Ten years of tech blogging – http://t.co/CTfG8vzz /tip @techmeme
• MT @misswired: It seems there’s a lot of interest in this – Kate Bolick: why marriage is a declining option for women http://t.co/pDiOKsf8
• Gillian Tett: Why doesn’t America like science? http://t.co/cyccMMSP
• Here is @brianstorms on the stages of Books of 2011 grief http://t.co/6wckVxsj
• Guardian: Books of the year 2011 http://t.co/slA8KvX7
• Amping Up Brain Function: Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning: Scientific American
  "Electrical stimulation of subjects’ brains is found to accelerate learning in military and civilian subjects, although researchers are yet wary of drawing larger conclusions about the mechanism"
• Late Show Video – Peter Gabriel – CBS.com
  "Peter Gabriel performing Live on Letterman in a CBS.com online concert exclusive. Recorded November 9, 2011 at The Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City."
• ‘Class warfare’ video of Elizabeth Warren goes viral http://t.co/cIThbgEW via @USATODAY
• The Psychology Of Pepper Spray http://t.co/CReRCzwz
• NYT: The NYPD was “more hostile to the press” covering #ows than at “any other event in recent memory” http://t.co/dawOZVST #JournArrest
• Police and the Press – NYTimes.com
• Scientists turn on fountain of youth in yeast

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• NYT: Lynn Margulis, Trailblazing Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 73: http://t.co/bd0YbGNm #eukaryotes #nuclei #gaia
• DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #90: 94 Ways Of Saying Thank You – The Rumpus.net
• A keyboard shortcut to put the output of your last shell command on the clipboard: http://t.co/12AucXGE. See also: http://t.co/st3lIeP1
• 10.7: Get iTunes pop-up notifications in the dock – Mac OS X Hints
• How Badoo built a billion-pound social network… on sex (Wired UK)
• Photo: alecshao: http://t.co/fKZk39wi
• Nifty: 68 minutes of Peter Gabriel live with full orchestra on Letterman – http://t.co/yatCJSh3
• Atheists are the most generous—even without heavenly reward! – Hank Pellissier – IEET – http://t.co/kAy20T1g
• Amping Up Brain Function: Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning http://t.co/9CXrPhIx
• "Vonnegut died in 2007, but one gets the sense … that he would have been happy to depart this vale of tears sooner." http://t.co/HOuTg3Yr
• Please read Herbert Gaans column. This is economically important. The Age of the Superfluous Worker: http://t.co/eEb7RNvi
• We’re watching: malls track shopper’s cell phone signals to gather marketing data http://t.co/rUGzNG1F
• WSJ: Holding Off on a Haircut to Buy a New Car – http://t.co/5ZXJsg82 /via @nouriel /cc @richardflorida
• I’m going to give this to all of my academic advisees to read (and you should probably read it too): http://t.co/4R6lC1jH
• Kahneman: ‘We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to’ – http://t.co/Uo1sGmEQ
• Woman pepper-sprayed shoppers at Wal-Mart to gain competitive shopping advantage in Thanksgiving sale http://t.co/z8EvIy7Z
• Walkie Talkie App Voxer Is Going Viral On iPhones And Androids, Trending On Twitter http://t.co/jsSNEtei
• Open Source (Almost) Everything
• http://t.co/YZNyGLHF "So, when antibiotics kill off your gut symbiota you get fat as a hog and die of stroke via @bruces
• So many powerful, insightful, inspiring women leaders lost this week. Lynn Margulis 1938-2011 "Gaia Is A Tough Bitch" http://t.co/lqXtrnrT
• irrationality research – Bad Science

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• Dantrolene protects neurons from Huntington’s disease http://t.co/nuecTZYZ
• So…woman loses use of legs, becomes 3X world handcycling champion, has accident, REGAINS use of legs, now pro cyclist http://t.co/Z3sDlwyb

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• The Marriage Plot vs. Twilight vs. the World | The Hairpin
• Best photos of the year 2011 | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
• Pepper-spraying cop gets Photoshop justice: Xeni’s Guardian op-ed on meme-ing of UC Davis police brutality http://t.co/XuUaDQ5p
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• We just published Einstein’s brain http://t.co/WcuXfEjB
• Google quits plans to make cheap renewable energy – http://t.co/3lcbKo2w
• Its that time … NYTimes: 100 Notable Books of 2011 http://t.co/WhSo9gK2
• HHDL talks about dealing with anger in a short clip from his visit to Doon School in Dehradun, India, on Oct. 28, 2011 http://t.co/tp4Vsmij
• The craziest thing you’ll ever see on the web
• BBC Nature – ‘Brinicle’ ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic

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• The Umbrella Man – Video Library – The New York Times
• My first music recommendation! papercranes are really really good and you can download their free EP here: http://t.co/OHlKvTYi
• Not to mention the head pain: Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows – http://t.co/KZXReHCf
• Thanksgiving as a kid VS Thanksgiving as an adult http://t.co/gRt1Wihb
• Stephen Fry & friends on the life, loves and hates of Christopher Hitchens – IQ2 talks – YouTube
• Best photos of the year 2011 | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
• MT @Newyorkist: "Police may set up a “pen” in which they will ask you to stand; you are not required to stay in a pen." http://t.co/Tf9LKcYI

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• Readable: http://t.co/TT0rSmlR
• As drought dries up Texas lakes, ghost towns and graves are exposed: http://t.co/PmIMoYtV
• "Draw Milan": Leonardo da Vinci’s to-do list, annotated and illustrated. http://t.co/wHBuEucj
• There should be no excuses. An all disabled ascent of El Cap. So inspiring. So close. #theseason2 http://t.co/qVcyTEe0 #climbing

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• I have a new essay out in Australia. It says that the key to understanding the Murdoch empire is its culture of denial. http://t.co/vVofTcto
• Must-read piece by @NaomiAKlein @thenation on giant problem behind climate change that Left & Right can’t abide. http://t.co/2Q4qMJEe
• Salon.com » How PTSD took over America Mobile
• Occupy the Agenda – NYTimes.com
• Is Marc Smith ever not interesting? http://t.co/6m8wdmnR: A revealing comparison of #OWS and Tea Party Twitter networks.
• Mrs GD, interpreting biblical passages http://t.co/pz1b292s
• How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? Hint: it doesn’t -@terriko (This is great!) http://t.co/2HyMd5BJ
• The turning point: The moral example of UC Davis students, and Occupy Wall Street | Psychology Today
• Good overview of all the ways the end of the world may be nigh. Nothing about bears tho. – http://t.co/FjbhmENT
• The End of Chinatown – Atlantic Mobile
• Lawmakers Trade Blame as Congressional Deficit Talks Crumble – NYTimes.com
• What Makes Us Happy? – Atlantic Mobile
• learned two new command-line tricks today: HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups and (via http://t.co/RQeJlq45) gnu parallel http://t.co/8llPzIF3
• A Preliminary Analysis of Privacy On Google+  – Technology Review
• The Moral Power of an Image: UC Davis Reactions – Atlantic Mobile

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• Martha Raddatz Tells War Stories With a Human Angle – NYTimes.com
• Militarization of Campus Police – The Huffington Post
• This is a courageous letter to the UC Davis Chancellor written by a NON-tenured Assistant Professor: http://t.co/uJsHJAZZ
• Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America looks great http://t.co/5JphtxGv @RollingStone sneak peek http://t.co/pW64z6xh
• The Muslim Brotherhood Takes Twitter – By Lauren E. Bohn http://t.co/zBsnRbSG
• The Muslim Brotherhood Takes Twitter – By Lauren E. Bohn | The Middle East Channel
• Drinking the Kool-Aid: A Survivor Remembers Jim Jones – Atlantic Mobile
• Be Very Afraid. For a While. | Yes & Know
• Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis – Atlantic Mobile
• summary of policy brutality at #ows – http://t.co/Co0VfvHp – is the @whitehouse really going to do nothing?
• “Amazing letter to UC Davis Chancellor written by non-tenured Assistant Professor about #occupy: http://t.co/lHRqewfM
• Racism And Meritocracy – TechCrunch
• UC Davis and "the banality of evil" http://t.co/ikvovpiI #ows
• Daily Kos: Confirmed: Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) coordinating Occupy raids
• Totally agree with @richardbranson: Capitalism has lost its way http://t.co/yKpdWMs0 Up to us to help it get back on the right track
• Lawrence Lessig @ Google : Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It ~ http://t.co/DMi583hU #OWS
• Heaven Is a Place Called Elizabeth Warren – NYTimes.com
• How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police – Atlantic Mobile
• I love Arrested Development and all, but this is the only news that matters this weekend: http://t.co/XqVU5qRT (Great writeup, @GoldyHA)
• From Gwaenysgor to the sea http://t.co/tylFcqi7
• If you have no life like me, and spend all your time watching documentaries, then check out @WatchDocsOnline – http://t.co/opw5bYky

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