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TEDTalks : Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles - Scott Kim (2008) - 3 days ago
At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame...
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TEDTalks : Sunitha Krishnan's fight against sex slavery - Sunitha Krishnan (2009) - 22 hours ago
Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a...
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TEDTalks : Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting - Anupam Mishra (2009) - 4 days ago
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago...
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TEDTalks : Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole - Andrea Ghez (2009) - 5 days ago
With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are...
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TEDTalks : Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest - Gordon Brown (2009) - 6 days ago
Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity's greater good? Can a...
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TEDTalks : Cameron Carpenter's dizzying improv on the organ - Cameron Carpenter (2008) - 1 week ago
At the 2008 EG conference, revolutionary organist Cameron Carpenter performs a classic piece of...
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TEDTalks : Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture - Magnus Larsson (2009) - 1 week ago
Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using...
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FactCheck.org Has a New Look! - 4 months ago
You'll still find our content at the same place, but you'll need to change your RSS feed to...
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Did Michelle Obama and her daughters use taxpayer money to take a European vacation? - 4 months ago
The first lady, her mother and her children did stay in Europe for a private vacation after the...
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Obama's Health Care News Conference - 4 months ago
Facts vs. Obama
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Does the House energy bill subject owners of existing homes to an energy efficiency audit before they can sell? - 4 months ago
Rep. Boehner and Rush Limbaugh got this wrong. The Realtors and home builders associations say...
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Canadian Straw Man - 4 months ago
More ads claim that Congress is pushing a Canadian-style health care bill.
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My readers are actually users - 1 year ago
Continuing the pattern of readers adding value to books, not just consuming them, My Mind On Books...
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Great Suw Charman-Anderson piece on pigheadedness - 1 year ago
Suw has a great post on social software, failure, and success over at Strange Attractor. She was...
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Jay Rosen on Citizen Journalism and Obama's "bitter" comment - 1 year ago
Jay Rosen, a founder of OffTheBus, has written a great piece on how Obama's "bitter" comments got...
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Comments broken - 1 year ago
Comments are broken. Thanks to everyone who's mailed in, I'm looking for the problem, will add to...
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - 1 year ago
(This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008...
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