February 2010
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Neuroscientist Says We Perceive “Smounds”—Half... →
Bacon frying.
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A look at our agricultural past may explain why... →
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Translating Ulysses into Finnish: A conversation... →
This may sound odd, but I have found Ulysses to be my easiest translation thus far! The most demanding and yet the easiest. The only way I can explain this is to say that, unlike all other translation works, every sentence of Ulysses has “something to translate”. The usual case is quite different: usually most of any given text seems to say: “convey only my meaning”. Only at times it asks to...
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The Cocktail Renaissance →
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The House of Dance and Feathers →
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“i am accused of tending to the past
i am accused of tending to the past
as...”
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HISTORY OF THE DANDY: FLAMBOYANT FLANEUR MALE... →
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For richer, for poorer →
Forget aid—people in the poorest countries like Haiti need new cities with different rules. And developed countries should be the ones that build them
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“The biggest part of the festival is the Parade, which completes one circuit...”
– Tater Day
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Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur →
Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library
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Museum of Unintended Use →
The Museum of Unintended Use collects pictures and stories about objects, and how people use them. Which is often not the way designers intended them to be used. Unintended Use is opening a bottle of beer with a cigarette lighter, using your mobile phone as a pocket light, or decorating your cherry tree with cd’s to chase away birds.
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The day I had my brain switched off →
Studying the Broca’s region of the brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation, temporarily “shutting off” the brain
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