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As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading Games by David Zirin in Sports Illustrated (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010) When I arrived in Vancouver, the first thing I noticed was the frowns. The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in town to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces. It's clear that the 2010 Winter Games has

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Written by enigmax on January 12, 2010 Hadopi, the French agency charged with handling file-sharers’ copyright digressions, has just made a huge infringement faux pas of its own. Last week the group unveiled the logo which is set to represent this bastion of copyright righteousness, but embarrassingly it was designed with unlicensed fonts. Starting in the spring, French file-sharers are set to

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A project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. It's hugely ambitious, and could turn into something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century. Wolfram Alpha

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Please, I beg of you, limit your use of the following words: Agency (unless you're speaking of the CIA) Anomalous  Acquisition (don’t use business-speak, it makes me want to elbow you in the neck) Authentic (only if you refer to yourself as a connoisseur of something and you are talking about that subject) Breakthrough (to be used only in exceptional circumstances, as in: you've just married the

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Mr Steven Jobs, on behalf of the Apple corporation, submitted a patent on April 18, 2008 for technology that enables advertisement on almost any device: computers, phones, televisions, media players, game devices, and just about anything with a button on it. The patent application describes that Apple has been researching what it calls an “enforcement routine.” While that may sound reasonably

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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1 By Amy Wallace  Wired Nov 2009 To hear his enemies talk, you might think Paul Offit is the most hated man in America. A pediatrician in Philadelphia, he is the coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine that could save tens of thousands of lives every year. Yet environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slams Offit as a “biostitute” who

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Montipora (long version) from Delrious on Vimeo.

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Science Is in the DetailsBy SAM HARRISPublished: New York Times - July 26, 2009PRESIDENT OBAMA has nominated Francis Collins to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health. It would seem a brilliant choice. Dr. Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist and the former head of the Human Genome Project. He is also, by his own account, living

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http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090713_17391.mp3An amazing lecture, by John Ralston Saul, showing that aboriginal values have fundamentally shaped the character of Canadian society; a society built on a four hundred year conversation between First Nations and immigrants.

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What happens when designers and engineers listen to biologists?Interactive 360 video - CLICK and DRAG the Video(shoots at 1.2 GB per second)

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This month Critical Mass was particularly friendly, on the part of the riders, and particularly aggressive, on the part of the car traffic.I witnessed more aggressive, and even violent, motorists this month than at any other Mass I've been to. Drivers on the bridges regularly honked their horns, revved their engines, and pushed their vehicles into standing cyclists. At numerous intersections men

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"More than 300 elite Scotland Yard detectives are suspected of defrauding the taxpayer of millions of pounds by abusing their corporate credit cards, the Observer can disclose. A senior officer appears to have spent £40,000 on his Amex card in one year, without authorization. Items bought by others without permission include suits, women's clothing and fishing rods.The scale of the suspected

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...about Albert "Ginger" Goodwin. He didn't look like much: his red hair his only distinguishing feature, he was just over 5'6'', and he was frail with tuberculosis. However, he had a towering moral presence. His short life was spent fighting for people who work hard for little reward - and it ended with a bullet and immortality as a labour martyr.Goodwin was born in Treeton, England on May 10,

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So, British Columbians did what I thought was impossible: we voted to kill a more fair and democratic electoral system AND offered a third term to a government whose sole interest appears to be short-term profit. Voting in the Liberals and Gordon Campbell again was tantamount to electing George Bush and his Republicans for a third run. The trouble is that there will be no turning back, no

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...not a "Financial Crisis." The business culture behind the financial meltdown, and the kind of business education that shapes that culture, is at the root of our current financial troubles. Management is not a profession. You cannot be taught to be a manager in a classroom. Business Administration is not a science. Management is a craft, honed over decades and through the mastery of all aspects

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In our upcoming provincial election the only real issue for me is the environment. Actually, to be honest, the environment is the only thing I am ever concerned about when voting: healthcare, education, tourism, business, agriculture, forestry, fishing - and everything else you can name - all require clean air, water, soil, and a robust ecosystem. Is that ridiculous? What do you think? What are

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So, I have joined the 21st Century: I am now a cell phone user. I know, I know, apparently these things have been in popular use for several decades, but I'm only now finding such a tool to be a useful addition to my life. However, I was unable to find a phone that would do what I want. I had the, apparently unreasonable, expectation that I would be able to purchase an inexpensive phone that did

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...continuing from my previous voting raps (see Who's Counting? and Representation, Forced Votes, and Spoiled Ballots)A helpful step toward the democratization of our electoral system, aside from adopting the STV system, would be levelling the financial playing field. The amount of money a party or given candidate has to spend on their campaign has a significant impact on their ability to play

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...continuing from my earlier rap.If none of the candidates running for election, or the parties they represent, reflect your views, is it better to:A) vote for the lesser-of-two-evilsB) spoil your ballotC) not vote at allWould your opinion be heard? Is that important? If so, who is listening and why? Which option best voices your opinion?What if the candidates or parties express views

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"We're having another election; however, with the turnout being so poor, I'm not entirely sure why we bother."It occurred to me that, while we often hear about the decline in voter turnout in recent Canadian elections, little historical data is ever offered. It was this thought that lead me to check out Statistics Canada this afternoon. After scouring several pages of stats, I came to some

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Are the pirates off Somalia's coast ruthless pirates taking advantage of lawless seas or are these people simply acting in self defense and on behalf of their own national interest, as any coastguard would?According to CBC, Somali pirates are defending against $300 million in lost revenues due to illegal fishing by foreign interests and the illegal dumping of nuclear and other toxic wastes on

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You are bacteria. The trickster. A powerful argument for play.

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Following an argument by Sam Harris... When we question our beliefs everyone wins. When we inoculate our beliefs against criticism we suffocate knowledge and understanding. A “belief” and a “hope” are two very different things and should not be confused. A “hope” is something that I'd like to happen: a desire, a wish. A hope is a possibility, but not likely a probability; that being so, we don

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Teens Photograph Space With Only a Latex Balloon and a $100 Camera.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022How Children Lost the Right to Roamhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/

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By Andrea Whitfill, AlterNet. My first introduction to natural, organic and eco-friendly products stems back to the early '90s, when I stumbled upon Burt’s Bees lip balm at an independently owned health food store in the heart of Westport, Kansas City, Mo. Before the eyesore invasion of ’98, when Starbucks frothed its way into the neighborhood, leading to its ultimate demise, Westport was the

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You would be right to notice there are scientists who go to church and churchgoers that believe in evolution. However, this doesn't mean that faith and science are compatible. It just means that some folks are able to wall off two different parts of their brain and hold incompatible ideas in each section. It's also true that some of the tension between these attitudes dissolve when the literal

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...is really out there and it’s not a matter of opinion. What do you think? We have evolved away from the search for universals, and toward the understanding of variability. This has been the great revolution in science over the last twenty years. However, I think Relativism - this idea that there are many truths, all equally deserving of our attention and respect even if they directly

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It was New Year’s Eve and against my keen hermit instincts and all logical reasoning I had agreed to go out and party, whatever that was. I wasn't normally inclined to go out and I was feeling even more like a recluse this season; my stepmother had just died, "Mom three" as I privately referred to her. ("Mom two," being my ex-wife's mother; and "Mom," naturally, being my birth mother - who

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How plastics are killing off males of all species and threatening life.How biomimicry can solve all of our technological and environmental problems simply, cheaply, and efficiently. The omnivore's next dilemma.

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The Curious Case of Forrest Gump

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Researchers from the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may make it possible to view dreams.Scientists were able to reconstruct various images viewed by a person by

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Do you participate in Remembrance Day? I haven’t since I was old enough to choose. So full of contradiction and selective amnesia – ignorance of the very past we’re meant to remember – Remembrance Day has always left a bad taste in my mouth. When it came to Remembrance Day, not unlike my experience with school or religion, I was taught early on not to ask too many questions; a reality that makes

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How schools kill creativity and fail to acknowledge intelligence.An amazing case of synesthesia.What we've lost.

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The shocking intelligence of crows. Poor urban design and the failure of suburbia. Creating novel forms of life."Don't you sit up at night worrying that you might be playing God.""Oh, we're not playing."

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http://www.youtube.com/v/PIl7zl_9fTA&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0http://revver.com/video/803033/toxic-garbage-island-part-1

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Flash Mobs are bunk. As active members of a modern democratic society, where mechanisms of exclusion and separation are ingrained and getting even more sophisticated, we should be honing the craft of spontaneous gathering. With any luck that is what this trend will become: the immature beginnings of twenty first century activism. Certainly we should all be getting more comfortable organizing

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As I understand, our language is the major difference between ourselves and other animals. (Which isn’t, at all, to suggest that it is a better or more advanced form of communication. Cephalopods, for instance, communicate through touch and visually through shifting and flashing different colours, patterns, and textures across their bodies - expressing mood and meaning. Termites use chemicals and

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The most amazing sex you're likely to see. The splendid psychosis that is love.Dr Tatiana illuminates the sex lives of animals and insects.

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...the old search for the absolute is heavy and has weighed us down for long enough. It implies that there is a stopping point, a final destination; it reeks, really, of Aristotelian belief in the meaningfulness of being at rest, of Newton's absolute space, of hierarchy, in knowledge as well as in society, of stasis. We have also had enough of the weight of utopianism, which comes of the idea

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