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  • The myth of the nice guy

    Alt Text: Taking Another Look at the Myth of the ‘Nice Guy’ Lore Sjöberg, wired.com Lore Sjoberg examines the linguistic and cultural implications of the myth of the “nice guy.” Lore Sjöberg Alt Text: Taking Another Look at the Myth of the ‘Nice Guy’ http://flip.it/ocVTh http://flip.it/M6idu Related articles Explore – This myth that early risers…

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  • The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live

    The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com NPR’s Robert Krulwich has a whimsical piece on the one formula that rules it all, from unicellular organisms to whales and sequoias and humans. A math formula that governs our life and tells us when to die.Even more interesting: the same…

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  • New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker

    Codecademy’s New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker With NPR, Twilio, SoundCloud, And More By Sarah Kessler, fastcompany.com Learning to code is more fun when you’re building something you can use. Codecademy’s new lesson plans use APIs to help students build more complex projects earlier. After com­plet­ing the first HTML project at online pro­gram­ming school……

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  • Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs

    Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs from YouTube, NPR and more By Ben Popper, theverge.com Giving novice coders the ability to build on top of other software Since it launched last year, New York start­up Codecad­e­my has helped to fill the huge demand for com­put­er sci­ence edu­ca­tion with free online cours­es in pro­gram­ming… RT…

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  • Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs

      Adam Cole, npr.org What do Jesuit priests, gin and ton­ics, and ancient Chi­nese scrolls have in com­mon? They all show up in our ani­mat­ed his­to­ry of malar­ia. It’s a story of geopo­lit­i­cal strug­gles, tra­di­tion­al med­i­cine, and above all, a war of… ANIMATION: The History Of Malaria Drugs : Shots – Health News : NPR http://flip.it/IQzck http://flip.it/5sxxY…

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  • Discovering the next cures from indigenous medicine

    Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures All Things Considered, npr.org Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures NPR All Things Considered From chick­en noo­dle soup to alcohol-spiked drinks, every­one has a pre­ferred rem­e­dy for cold symp­toms. Since she was feel­ing a lit­tle under the weath­er, Melis­sa Bloc… http://flip.it/e61h1 Related articles Patent Medicines Get A…

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  • The anthropology of why constant contact makes you alone

    In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY As soon as Sher­ry Turkle arrived at the stu­dio for her Fresh Air inter­view, she real­ized she’d for­got­ten her phone. “I real­ized I’d left it behind, and I fel… http://flpbd.it/lzBmU…

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  • NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR

    NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR. News coverage doesn’t get much better than NPR, which runs the gamut in terms of coverage, from serious to downright silly. Need an international fix? Listen to Talk of the Nation. Want a good laugh? Tune into Ira Glass‘s…

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