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  • Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing

    By DAVID STREITFELD, nytimes.com Tim Fer­riss’ “4-Hour Chef” is the first big book to be pub­lished by Ama­zon. With the tra­di­tion­al book­selling out­lets unwill­ing to stock or pub­li­cize the title, pub­lish­er and author are pulling out all the stops to move copies and show… http://flpbd.it/bCv0s Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing Related articles…

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  • See what the world will look like without power

    New York City in post-storm darkness: photos by Randy Scott Slavin Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by pho­tog­ra­ph­er Randy Scott Slavin doc­u­ment­ing the dark­ness in New York City after Hur­ri­cane Sandy caused wide­spread power out­ages: New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, ligh… http://flpbd.it/4inHF Related articles A Study of Shadows…

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  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

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  • How Facebook Photos Go Viral

    Daily Infographic: How Facebook Photos Go Viral By Emily Elert, popsci.com George Takei—an actor some of you may rec­og­nize from the orig­i­nal Star Trek series, has a knack for post­ing viral pho­tos on Face­book. Recent­ly, the social media giant asked Sta­men, a San Fran­cis­co design firm, to cre­ate a… http://flpbd.it/gbz2V Related articles 8 Steps to…

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  • World’s Coolest Offices

    World’s Coolest Offices | 2012 inc.com http://flpbd.it/FJO5o Related articles Lights & Glamour: The Coolest Moving Trucks Ever! (auto-candy.com) Aston Martin no longer coolest make – Confused.com (confused.com) Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there? (news.ycombinator.com) The myth of the world’s coolest phone (bestbuymobile.com)

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  • PadPivot NST Review: The Best Available iPad Stand

    PadPivot NST Review: The Best Available iPad Stand Just Got Better Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com I’ve seen a lot of iPad stands in my day. Comes with the ter­ri­to­ry. But only one has ever earned a reg­u­lar place in my gad­get bag and on my desk: A scrap­py upstart from Kick­starter that made it to big…

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  • Ultraviolet photography – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Ultraviolet photography – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Related articles Butterfly Vision: Robert E. Silberglied’s Photographic Explorations Most of my Leica photography gear for sale Water Drop Photography JunoPrints.com Canvas Prints review Water Drop Photography II

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  • Prey: Affordable tools emerge to track and visualize the travels of your devices

    Over the past years, I’ve realized that my devices and the information they store is increasingly important to me. But unlike many commercial sectors from pharmaceuticals to shipping, there was no consumer level technology to easily, inexpensively and legally monitor them and their use. However recently new applications such as Prey and Apple’s Find my…

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  • Sugar as a toxin: YouTube video of biochemistry and evolutionary medicine

    Recently a YouTube video explaining the biochemistry of sugar has elevated public awareness of thousands of Americans enough to question heir intake. Much of the research, this speaker notes, points to sugar as a direct toxin, including more recent discoveries on its effect on insulin signaling and cancer. Of course anthropologists have long documented the…

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  • Tangled in an endless web of distractions

    Colleges are limiting access to social media during classes due to concerns about impacts on learning. Tangled in an endless web of distractions – Boston.com. Related articles Viral Marketing in 2013 Hinges on Content Creation, Social Media (prweb.com) Tangled FX for iOS – Unique New Photo Effect – Currently #35 in Photo (themactrack.com) Oh what…

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  • 3D Printing: A More Biological Approach to Manufacturing

    3D printing: The printed world | The Economist. Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: LED wine sellar, a ‘Breathing Bike’ and 3D-printed embryonic stem cells (engadget.com) personalfactory: “For 3D printing we are developing a… (seattle-gadgets.tumblr.com) 3D Gun-Printing Technology is Getting Worryingly Better (gizmodo.com.au) The end of the Oyster Buffet: eventually 3D printing might kill all…

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  • Using video to re-invent education (TEDTalks)

      An excellent overview of the potential of online video to re-invent education by hedge fund analyst and creator Salman Khan.   Salman Khan: Lets use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com.   Related articles   Let’s use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan on TED.com (ted.com) An Olympic phenom gives out gold, silver…

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