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jtotheizzoe: “Next week, while we’re all watching NBC, a nuclear-powered, MINI-Cooper-sized super rover will land on Mars. We accurately guided this monster from 200 million miles away (that’s 7.6 million marathons). It requires better accuracy than an Olympic golfer teeing off in London and hitting a hole-in-one in Auckland, New Zealand. It will use a…
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smarterplanet: Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise. – Slate Magazine Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. He cited roads, bridges, and schools. Then he singled out the…
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smarterplanet: Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise. – Slate Magazine Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. He cited roads, bridges, and schools. Then he singled out the…
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Olympic fencer Shin A Lam refuses to leave the floor after unfair ruling.
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Focus groups are designers and leadership abdicating responsibility. – Jonny Ive (h/t @thulme)
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jtotheizzoe: Jonah Lehrer Admits to Fabricating Quotes, Stonewalling, Resigns Jonah Lehrer has admitted to fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his newest book Imagine. This comes just weeks after the famed neuroscience writer was caught “self-plagiarizing” his own content on his New Yorker blog. It has just been announced that he is resigning from The New Yorker, and his publisher…
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jtotheizzoe: Jonah Lehrer Admits to Fabricating Quotes, Stonewalling, Resigns Jonah Lehrer has admitted to fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his newest book Imagine. This comes just weeks after the famed neuroscience writer was caught “self-plagiarizing” his own content on his New Yorker blog. It has just been announced that he is resigning from The New Yorker, and his publisher…
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We could argue about what’s worse, but as John R. Edlund of CSU Pomona, an English professor who writes about plagiarism, told the Atlantic Wire, “I think Mr. Lehrer’s current offenses are more about fraud than plagiarism, although he was accused of self-plagiarism in the past. He is now accused of fabricating quotations to fit…
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We could argue about what’s worse, but as John R. Edlund of CSU Pomona, an English professor who writes about plagiarism, told the Atlantic Wire, “I think Mr. Lehrer’s current offenses are more about fraud than plagiarism, although he was accused of self-plagiarism in the past. He is now accused of fabricating quotations to fit…
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emergentfutures: Nintendo reports operating loss of $132M as Wii sales drop off a cliff Rivals Microsoft and Sony have been gaining share for a while. The company is experiencing the Osborne effect, in which sales of its current generation console are dropping because it has announced its next-generation machine. Nintendo reported Wii sales of 710,000 in the…