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  • Learning a second language

    What’s the secret to learning a second language? By Bonnie Tsui, Pacific Standard, salon.com Studies reveal it’s more than just a matter of memory. A look at what the science of recall can teach us A FEW YEARS AGO, Cap­tain Emmanuel Joseph decid­ed to learn Ara­bic before his deploy­ment to Iraq. “At first it was…

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  • Why seeing death helps you to value life

    America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality When we think of mor­ti­cians, we cer­tain­ly don’t imag­ine a bub­bly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But……

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  • Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking

    Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bern­stein, at the Cen­ter for Neigh­bor­hood Tech­nol­o­gy in inner-city Chica­go, pro­duced a set of maps that are still chang­… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles…

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • Albert Epinosa learned how to live through cancer

    ‘Fighting cancer taught me how to live’ Homa Khaleeli, guardian.co.uk Albert Espinosa insists that his gruelling, 10-year battle against cancer was a happy time. Now he has written a book to explain why At 14 Albert Espinosa was a typical football obsessed teenager. He lived with his engineer father, housewife… http://flpbd.it/8PO8g Related articles Quotes to…

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  • Ikea concrete base lamp hack

    IKEA Hack: How to Make an Industrial Concrete Base Lamp curbly.com When I came across this light­ing project, I did a dou­ble take because I could hard­ly believe it was a DIY. It is so well done, the fin­ished project looked more like some­thing I could buy than some­thing I could make on my own.…

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  • Open structures parts kit lets you make anything from scratch

    An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At the Istanbul Bienal, designers used the OpenStructures system to build toasters, sleds, and vacuum cleaners from scratch. The move towards DIY dig­i­tal fabrication—from Maker­Bot to Fab@Home—is an undoubt­ed­ly great devel­op­ment for… http://flpbd.it/fOuI4 Related articles Dyson dc24 animal compact upright…

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  • 156 years of election data at your finger tips info graphic

    Infographic: 156 Years Of Election Data At Your Fingertips By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com An interactive chart visualizes party affiliations, congressional and presidential elections, and more, sorted state-by-state, year-by-year, since 1856. Prepare to lose an afternoon. Pol­i­tics are a game of strat­e­gy. And while we often think … http://flpbd.it/d0MWd

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  • Italians now buy more bikes than cars

    The Decline of the Car? Part 1: Italians Now Buying More Bicycles Than Automobiles core77.com Sur­pris­ing news: Italy, home of the mighty Fer­rari and the sprawl­ing Fiat empire, is now a coun­try where peo­ple are buy­ing more bicy­cles than cars. The num­bers are a lit­tle too round (and close) not to take with a grain…

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