August 2011
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“One of the most fascinating effects I’ve seen in quite awhile is that we can...”
– The Secret Language Code: Scientific American
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“Affirmation and confirmation is a metaphorical cognitive carbohydrate. We seek...”
– Clay Johnson, What Are the Most Dangerous Special Interest Groups in America
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“Once, when Ferran Adria was back in Barcelona for the winter, he bought a...”
– Michael Paterniti, He Might Be a Prophet or the Greatest Chef in the World
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WatchKevin Slavin, How Algorithms Shape Our World
I wanted to reblog this talk from my friend, Kevin, but apparently he didn’t post it on his own tumblelog. Anyway: this is important. Watch this.
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Intractable Problems in Two Parts
Europe:
“And so one of two things must happen. Either Germans must agree to a new system in which they would be fiscally integrated with other European countries as Indiana is integrated with Mississippi: the tax dollars of ordinary Germans would go into a common coffer and be used to pay for the lifestyle of ordinary Greeks. Or the Greeks (and probably, eventually, every non-German) must...
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