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underpaidgenius: A Permanent Slump? – Paul Krugman – NYTimes.com Paul Krugman (and Larry Summers) peer behind the backdrop and see the postnormal economy may be with us for decades. excerpt […] what if the world we’ve been living in for the past five years is the new normal? What if depression-like conditions are on track…
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Gamers Take 3 Weeks to Solve HIV Puzzle That Has Eluded Scientists for 10 Years Scientists from Washington University have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of a enzyme that exhibits AIDS-like behavior, and which might hold a critical role in building a cure for the disease. Gamers playing spatial…
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stackfm: Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet – Jenna Wortham, Vindu Goel, and Nicole Perlroth – NYTimes.com The authors of this NY Times piece ask an interesting question about the compatibility of Snapchat’s imagined world and Facebook’s: excerpt As for Snapchat, its compatibility with Facebook is unclear. Snapchat is centered on impermanence and offers…
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emergentfutures: Still on Facebook, but Finding Less to Like – Jenna Wortham – NYTimes.com stoweboyd: Jenna Wortham is part of a growing trend: people who find that the Facebook social experience is waning in interest, partly because others are spending less time there, but also because they are migrating to messaging-based instead of profile-based apps:…