Author: timbatchelder

  • Eataly: Olympus of Italian slow food

    Eataly is an Italian food lover’s paradise. Think IKEA crossed with Whole Foods — on three levels with nine eating areas — featuring Italian and Piemontese foods, beverages, and kitchen-related products. Open since 2007, Eataly is aligned with the Slow Food movement, a nonprofit organization founded in the 1980s that has more than 100,000 members in…

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  • Skyscape: Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry

    Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry | Skyscape. Related articles 500+ Android And iOS Apps Now Available on Appy Pie Inc (prweb.com) Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple’s iPhone and iOS (technologynewsworldwide.com) Opinion: An Apple iOS UI redesign? Nice, but not essential (electronista.com)

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  • John Kay: The world needs more foxes and fewer hedgehogs

    Why are the predictions of well known experts worse than those of people who linger in obscurity? Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between the hedgehog, who knows one big thing, and the fox, who knows many little things, provides a clue to the answer. John Kay – The world needs more foxes and fewer hedgehogs. Related articles…

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  • Conway Sportsman’s Club: Wild game food gatherings

      With the increasing evidence that wild game has a much improved nutritional and health profile than factor farmed foods, there are more events springing up that provide access to curious urbanites in the Pioneer Valley.   In Western Mass., hunters’ communal grill – Boston.com.     Related articles   Chef relishes wild hunt for…

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  • Columbia University: Information and Knowledge Strategy program

    Interesting new program focused on KM. A friend, Katrina Pugh, is on the faculty… Information and Knowledge Strategy | School of Continuing Education. Related articles 360training.com Appoints Ronald Trautman Chief Revenue Officer (prweb.com) Title Lending Company Opens Additional Store in Columbia, SC (prweb.com) Oncology Learning Network Continuing Education Course to Offer Certificate in Lung Cancer…

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  • Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends

    In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture – NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com)…

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  • Gleaning for the modern age: Applying social networks to distribute surplus food

     This man has revived the traditional practice of gleaning for the modern age: recycling produce that would otherwise be thrown out from large supermarket supply chains. Boston Area Gleaners | Harvesting Against Hunger. Oakes Plimpton Wicked Local Article Related articles Frontline Online: How can you help to reduce food waste? (theecologist.org) Surplus fruit picked across…

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  • Samovar Matcha Hekisui Japanese green tea

    Now this is how green tea should be made: not overheated and full of chlorophyll and nutrients. Samovar Matcha Hekisui – Japanese green tea – Samovar Tea Lounge – Drink Tea.. Related articles Tea for Two and Two for Matcha Cake (entertaining.answers.com) Matcha Green Tea Contains 137x Antioxidants of Standard Green Tea says Vitalife Teas…

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  • Scientists Turn Digital Code into Life

    via online.wsj.com Okay it has finally happened. Computer science has become biology and digital DNA has been used to make the first synthetic cell. The potential applications are diverse from biofuels to medicine. But what about the risks? Related articles Shakespeare’s sonnets encoded in DNA (guardian.co.uk) Huge Amounts Of Data Can Be Stored In DNA (news.sky.com)…

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