trying to make sense of it all...: Archive

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“A young man wrote to Mozart and said, “Herr Mozart, I am thinking of...”

– This reminds me of the best entrepreneurs I have met! Malkavian Quotes

Feb 7th

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Stickers for one and all

chartier: I just realized something: Tumblr’s new Highlighted Posts feature is like Twitter’s promoted tweets, except it’s not just for mega-corporations and publishers. Normal people like you and me can pay about the smallest fee possible to draw a little extra attention to our content. That’s awesome.

Feb 6th

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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of...”

– Barnes, Julian (2011-10-05). The Sense of an Ending (p. 65). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

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Stop SOAP! →

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““Marshall was a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true...”

– Barnes, Julian (2011-10-05). The Sense of an Ending (p. 5). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

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A New Model of Empathy: The Rat →

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes. The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the...

Dec 12th

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GSN Races to Improve Prenatal Tests for Genetic... →

I am thrilled to be involved in GSN, a company which is developing breakthrough technology to help people have healthy babies.

Dec 9th

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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration... →

I love creative ideas that harness what would otherwise have been waste…

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Evernote Clearly →

“Clearly” makes blog posts, articles and webpages clean and easy to read. Save them to Evernote to read them anywhere.

Nov 28th

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Crovitz: Horror Show—Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley... →

Hollywood once again attempts to stifle innovation in technology through legislative means. If this legislation were to pass, the Facebook or YouTube of tomorrow would suffer infanticide…

Nov 28th

A Cartography of the Anthropocene →

Mind boggling!

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GPOYW: TechCrunch Disrupt New York May 2011 →

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The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction -... →

In one classic study from the late 1960s, fondly known as the marshmallow experiment, scientists at Stanford University led by psychologist Walter Mischel (now at Columbia University) offered 4-year-olds a marshmallow, and left it invitingly in front of them. The hitch: if the kids waited to eat the marshmallow until the experimenter, who stepped out of the room, returned in a few minutes, they...

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Hands-free payments, thanks to Square's Card Case →

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Proof: True beauty: Euler's Identity →

quarkman: This expression is often referred to by mathematicians as the most beautiful expression in mathematics. It takes the most seemingly unrelated constants and unifies them into this one simple answer. Just try to imagine the complexity of these constants and their relation to one…

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