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Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen Says Boston Feels ‘a Mixture of Sadness and Defiance’
Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen Says Boston Feels ‘a Mixture of Sadness and Defiance’ Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen wrote about the resilience of the city of Boston and its people at the site of the bombings. For Cullen, what he saw compared to the scene of the bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1998,…
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I was reminded about Bogotá by yesterday’s news
Colombia Blast Kills 1, Injures 83 : Drug Barons Held Responsible for Attack on Paper September 03, 1989|KENNETH FREED | Times Staff Writer BOGOTA, Colombia — In a major escalation of the already bloody war between the Colombian government and narcotics traffickers, presumed drug barons attacked one of the nation’s most important newspapers, setting off…
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My younger son shared this comic from Penny Arcade with me. I think he’s worried about my online safety. (via Penny Arcade – Mindcraft)
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smarterplanet: Organic transistors for brain mapping | KurzweilAI To improve brain mapping, a group of French scientists have produced the world’s first biocompatible microscopic organic transistors that can amplify and record signals directly from the surface of the brain, building on prototypes developed at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF). This is the…
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Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar…
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@BruceS Happy Birthday!
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jaded-mandarin: The Alba Madonna – Raphael. Detail.
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commonplacecomic: How to sew a simple single-signature book.
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leslieseuffert: El Lissitzky