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Wonder, not repute, is the currency that should be held sacrosanct in science.

Wonder, not repute, is the currency that should be held sacrosanct in science.
globeandmail.com: Out out, damn blind spot by Jeffrey MacIntyre…

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What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a “gated community” where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety. Today that is already the case for many corporate and government Internet users.

What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a “gated community” where users would give …

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People point out that there’s a significant sleight-of-hand in every status update, because the real answer to “What are you doing right now?” is always just “Updating my status.

People point out that there’s a significant sleight-of-hand in every status update, because the real answer to “What are you doing right now?” is always …

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Even the Taliban Now Loves the iPhone [Surly Adopter]

Even the Taliban Now Loves the iPhone [Surly Adopter]
We doubt Apple will sign this guy up for an endorsement deal, but Mullah Zaif, …

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If you count swinging Saul Bellow as a Canadian, Montreal-born, and also class Vladimir Nabokov as a transnational, all-transcending anomaly, then Updike is, line for line, without peer, the finest American prose stylist of the postwar era: meticulous, crystalline, and luminously hyperrealist, his opulent language hanging on austere forms.

If you count swinging Saul Bellow as a Canadian, Montreal-born, and also class Vladimir Nabokov as a transnational, all-transcending anomaly, then Updike is, line for …

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Ten Years Left [Media]

Ten Years Left [Media]

US Newspapers laid off 9% of their workers last year.

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Should people have the right to cheat? More than 100,000 folks seem to think so. That is how many copies have been sold of a computer program called Glider, which essentially plays the game World of Warcraft for you.

Should people have the right to cheat? More than 100,000 folks seem to think so. That is how many copies have been sold of a …

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Banksy of Brooklyn [Intelligent Life]

Banksy of Brooklyn [Intelligent Life]…

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