July 2011
60 posts
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“The problem has been that this ability is compromised when the printed stem...”
– BioPrinting Stem Cells - Fabbaloo Blog - Fabbaloo
“It doesn’t matter if someone is young, old, real experienced, inexperienced, you...”
– The Ellison Kids: Billionaire Producers Making Their Mark on Hollywood | The Wrap Movies
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“…what should not be forgotten is that the deal with Elevation that set...”
– The Forbes family’s big deal causes big trouble - The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet
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“…had S&P done its job, the federal budget deficit would likely be far...”
– Downgrading the credit agencies | Marketplace From American Public Media
Good advice from Robert Reich to S&P
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“As the August 2 deadline approaches, several nightmare scenarios loom, including...”
– Debt Ceiling Crisis: Like Y2K With Assholes Instead of Computers « Borowitz Report
“The demographic theory behind such pronouncements is completely wrong. In fact,...”
– Norway Massacre: Anders Breivik’s Deadly Attack Fueled by Hatred of Women - The Daily Beast
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“balanced-budget multiplier theorem” states that national income is raised,...”
– Economic Stimulus, Without More Debt - NYTimes.com
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“As a matter of simple math, balanced tax and expenditure increases would lower...”
– Tax and Spend, but Keep Your Balance - Economic View - NYTimes.com
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“the Bush tax cuts have had a huge damaging effect. If all of them expired as...”
– How the Deficit Got This Big - NYTimes.com
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“Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non-
defense discretionary...”
– How the Deficit Got This Big - NYTimes.com
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“In 2001, President George W. Bush inherited a surplus, with projections by the...”
– How the Deficit Got This Big - NYTimes.com
“Not only are we developing “the overeducated American,” he says, but the cost is...”
– The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s - NYTimes.com
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“I hope a couple will say, ‘I want to live life like that at this age,’ ” Ms....”
– Swimming From Cuba to Key West, Without Leaving the Water - NYTimes.com
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“In the end, Feynman’s greatest contribution to science was not any particular...”
– The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books
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“The great achievement of Feynman was to show that this sum-over-histories view...”
– The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books
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“Feynman visualized the world with pictures rather than with equations. Other...”
– The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books
“It is easier to see terrorists as the Other, as someone who holds bizarre views,...”
– Norway Terrorist Attack: Christian Perpetrator Defied Stereotypes - The Daily Beast
“What changed tabloid journalism was not just Rupert Murdoch, but television and...”
– Murdoch and Celebrity Culture Destroyed British Tabloids by Howard Jacobson - The Daily Beast
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“That Coulson and Brooks are close friends of the prime minister vexes the...”
– Murdoch and Celebrity Culture Destroyed British Tabloids by Howard Jacobson - The Daily Beast
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3D Print Your Next House - SlashGear →
3D Printing has been around for a while. Until recently it’s been a technology that’s relegated to the design process, where designers are able to make plastic prototypes much more quickly. Neri Oxman at MIT’s Media Lab has a vision for 3D printing much bigger than the current reality. She sees the advancements in 3D printing being used to construct buildings. I’ve seen concept designs for all...
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“Vicarious participation, the scientists concluded, mirrors what happens to the...”
– The New Science of Triumph - Newsweek
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“Without four or five years of exclusive streaming rights to TV shows and movies,...”
– Inside Yahoo’s Bid For Hulu
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How much of Hulu is owned by the three networks? →
I’m wondering why this Hulu sale process has been so out in the open…reads like a distressed sale, albeit a very rich one…
How much of the venture is owned by the three broadcast networks?
Or, more to the point, how much more do they stand to make if they in fact agree to continue their relationship with the new owner for 5 years?
Are they taking most of the revenues by way of...
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“Just two weeks ago, Murdoch was the most powerful media magnate in the world....”
– Time is Running Out for Murdoch to Salvage His Legacy - The Daily Beast
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“It’s clear that that inventors are leaving states that enforce...”
– Non-competes Push Talent Away — HBS Working Knowledge
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“News has to be subsidized because society’s truth-tellers can’t be supported by...”
– Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic « Clay Shirky
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“If Google is seen as an enhancement of Google’s Place Search, then this could...”
– What Will Google Plus Google Places Equal? — Andrew Shotland on SearchinEngineLand
“To Arianna Huffington, I have this to say: The extent to which you’re...”
– What It’s Like to Get Used and Abused by The Huffington Post | Commentary and analysis from Simon Dumenco - Advertising Age
The British Press and the Deathly Hallows: Murdoch... →
“Imagine if that vision were allied to journalistic ethics. Murdoch would be a god. But the maggot-infested underside of News of the World is a metaphor for what his whole tabloid operation has wrought. He could have been Dumbledore crossed with Harry Potter. But he’s Voldemort, and he’s not vanquished yet.”
— Tina Brown
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“The great cliffhanger of the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking/bribery affair is...”
– Tina Brown: Rupert Murdoch’s Dark Arts Hacking Scandal Hasn’t Vanquished Him Yet - The Daily Beast
“News Corp.’s behavior has become an egregious collection of nepotism and...”
– News Corp Shareholders Sue Over Phone Hacking Scandal | The Wrap Media
fred-wilson:
The Seeker - The Raconteurs ft Pete...
“Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly,...”
– An article in the New York Times from 1982, titled: “Study Says Technology Could Transform Society” about this time when every home might have a two-way videotex (computer terminal with internet connection), predicting mass customization.
Pretty cool.
(via masscustomization)
“We have always looked to political ideology to bring about change in our...”
– Peter Gabriel
And Through The Wire - Peter Gabriel
(via fred-wilson)
“We can still be happy that we’re alive. Nobody can be blamed for this. It’s a...”
– Euro Media car ejected for clipping Flecha, Hoogerland - Cycling- NBC Sports
Now, this is magnanimous…
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