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David Foster Wallace: This is water | Video on... →
What is adult life really about? In this legendary college commencement speech in 2005, David Foster Wallace attempts to explain. Animation by The Glossary.
In his novels and short stories, and in sharp essays, David Foster Wallace paid careful attention to life, to the truth of being human. Full bio »
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Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard! |... →
Why can’t two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn’t you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects.
Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum’s MaKey MaKey kit lets you turn everyday...
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Palestinian Arab and Jewish Refugees. By Gilead... →
On May 15, many Palestinians and their supporters mark what they call “Nakba Day,” a commemoration focusing on their view that the reconstitution of a Jewish state in Israel was a “catastrophe.”
The commemoration is often accompanied by a flurry of opinion pieces and news stories conveying the Palestinian narrative of Israel’s independence, which frequently contain false...
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History May Be Different Than You Thought →
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The Hunger Games Is Identical to a Japanese Movie.... →
The Hunger Games, adapted from the Suzanne Collins novel, is set in a dystopian future where children are forced to take part in a televised death match where only one can survive. The reason? To punish citizens for a past rebellion and to prevent them from rising up again.
But It’s Suspiciously Similar To …
Battle Royale is Japanese movie adapted from a Japanese novel. It’s...
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Myth: Diet Soda Helps You Lose Weight →
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The Myth:
Nobody truly likes artificial sweeteners, but they’re an accepted evil, because how else can you replace all the sinks in your home with soda fountains without feeling guilty? Of course, we all know that such freedom comes at a price — in this case, that price being that they taste horrid, at least for the first few months before your tongue...
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‘Bangladesh Syndrome’ Looms over Burma’s... →
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Save Bangkok’s last remaining green space →
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Thai raid on fishing operation frees dozens of... →
A migrant worker from Burma gets off a fishing boat at a seafood market in the town of Mahachai near Bangkok. (Reuters)
Thai authorities rescued more than 50 migrant workers, including eight Burmese nationals, who had been trafficked and were forced to work as slave labourers on fishing boats in Chonburi on Wednesday.
Officials from the Royal Thai Police’s Anti-Human Trafficking Division...
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Start a Petition →
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Georgia Tech and Udacity roll out massive new... →
Massive (But Not Open). By Ry Rivard
The Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a $7,000 online master’s degree to 10,000 new students over the next three years without hiring much more than a handful of new instructors.
Georgia Tech will work with AT&T and Udacity, the 15-month-old Silicon Valley-based company, to offer a new online master’s degree in computer science to...
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WatchSeems future lunar bases will have to be built much deeper
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Gates retakes top spot on Bloomberg’s rich list,... →
Bill Gates can’t give it away fast enough. Gates, who has vowed to give his entire fortune to charity, once again found himself the richest man in the world as Microsoft stock hit a five-year high, displacing Mexico’s Carlos Slim, who isn’t giving away anything.
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A Palestinian Arab State / A Palestinian Arab... →
Prime Minister Netanyahu is being pressured from all sides, and especially the Obama Administration, to restart peace talks and give up Judea and Samaria for a Palestinian state. The pleas come shrouded in willful ignorance that there is no true Arab Palestinian people, and the Arabs making the demands are less interested in land and peace than they are that Israel has no right to exist. Let’s...
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Tsfat, Israel →
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USA TV Shows Worth Watching (May 2013). By Ron Barak
Game of Thrones
The Daily Show
Grey’s Anatomy
The Big Bang Theory
The Simpsons
A Pleasant Waste of Time
2 Broke Girls
Scandal
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Vegas
Watson And Oliver
Two.and.a.Half.Men
Anger.Management
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Long - Live the Queen →
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“It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever...”
– Nathaniel Borenstein
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Joke: golfers →
A priest, an ophthalmologist, and an engineer were golfing one morning behind a particularly slow group of golfers.
The engineer fumed, “What’s with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!” The doctor chimed in, “I don’t know, but I’ve never seen such inept golf!” The priest said, “Here comes the greens keeper. Let’s have a...
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Oldie: the great bike →
Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said, “Where did you get such a great bike?” The second engineer replied, “Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, “Take what you want.” “The second engineer nodded...
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De Lijn - take the bus →
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Jobsintown.de's "Life's too short for the wrong... →
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BMW, Audi, Subaru, Bentley Epic Ad war →
1. BMW started it. 2. Audi answered. 3. Subaru needed to say something. 4. Bentley Chairman had the last word!
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What are your favorite methods for looking busy at... →
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Watchמבוא למתרגם המתחיל
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Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success.
At...
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O’Reilly competition
O’Reilly competition has chosen the answers for the Disposable Teleports mission and the Simplification mission. The community has spoken and narrowed our finalists down to three people for each mission. The winners of the Disposable Teleports challenge are:
First Place - PositronicLlama http://www.checkio.org/mission/implementation/python-3/16613/01687c3395441a47a81abebc7cd505f8/
Second Place -...
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Outsmarting Smartphone Thieves →
SAN FRANCISCO — In the month since two men violently shoved him to the ground and stole his iPhone 5, Dalton Huckaby has almost completely stopped calling his mother. It usually takes him a full day to text his friends back. Nothing personal, but Mr. Huckaby is just too frightened to take his replacement iPhone out in public.
Andrew Roberts
“I never thought this would happen to me,” said...
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French Court Ruling Affirms Legality of Israeli... →
Virtually all international media has ignored recent news from France, where a court issued a ruling related, among other things, to the legality of Israel’s occupation. As noted in a March 13, 2013 article published by the French media outlet Dreuz, the Versailles Court of Appeal ruled that the Israeli occupation of the territories claimed by the Palestinians is in fact legal.
The...
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CAMERA: BACKGROUNDER: History of Jerusalem →
Background of the history of and conflict over Jeusalem.
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Cyber bank robbers stole $45 million. AFP →
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Qaradawi in Gaza: "This land has never once been a... →
This deeply antisemitic revisionist history is no surprise. The most prominent and respected Muslim sheikh in the world, Qaradawi has said on al-Jazeera: “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he...
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