December 2011
50 posts
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Dec 31st
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“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends...”
– Upton Sinclair
Dec 27th
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“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling...”
– Winston Churchill, November 1936
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“and in each of those decades (the 1950’s and 1960’s) more oil was...”
– President Jimmy Carter, 18 April 1977
Dec 25th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“…imagine my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from...”
– Sergey Brin (via azspot)
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
517 notes
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Dec 14th
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“The U.S. has an unemployment crisis and a debt problem, but many people in...”
– Peter Diamond, Institute Professor emeritus at MIT via RMS
Dec 14th
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Automated Matrix-style learning demonstrated →
A US-Japanese team of researchers have demonstrated a system that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) feedback to attune a person’s visual cortex to match the brain patterns needed to perform various high-performance tasks with little or no conscious effort. The researchers, from Boston University (BU) and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (Kyoto), acknowledge their...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
9 notes
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
7,824 notes
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“The best content that is being created today is content that lives beyond the...”
– Screenless (Finally started my own blog today.  A proper blog. Hope I write more than once a month!)
Dec 12th
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“Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
Dec 12th
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“The banks and the rating agencies have become the dictators of the West. Like...”
– Robert Fisk (via azspot)
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
239 notes
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“Most Americans won’t notice these lost opportunities. They don’t get out much or...”
– Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
6 notes
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Dec 10th
59 notes
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“But industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial....”
– Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
155 notes
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Dec 9th
3,689 notes
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
142 notes
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Dec 9th
2,457 notes
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“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on Earth, therefore If God did...”
– Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 4th
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“The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of...”
– John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
67 notes
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Dec 2nd
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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken...”
– ascribed to George Bernard Shaw
Dec 2nd
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