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MIT team up with Google and Umberto Eco? How could this not be awesome!!! - j1m from Bookmarklet

I couldn't help but think of DeLillo's airborne toxic event. - Jeremy Hylton

Definitely worth a watch. Explains how we came to be human beings. Latest thinking on how we became big brained creatures. - Bindu Reddy from Likaholix

They both know how to give the white glove treatment. - Micah Wittman

What are these things called "empathy" and "emotional intelligence"? - Jim Norris

Thinking that worrries are stupid or ill-founded != not anticipating worries. - Ryan Moulton

Amazing process, historical footage - Nelson Minar

I wish I could like this more than once. - EricaJoy

This is pretty cool. - Bastian

Я предпологал!!!! :) Теперь я знаю!!!! - atner

"Ditto 3. The life science community and the non-life science folks I interact with are as active as ever." - Deepak Singh

Ah, but Scoble says it's going down the pipe, so it must be true! In a comment to me here yesterday, he said that the income stream from the life sciences community alone (or with a few other minority groups, and we are a minority compared to Facebook users) wouldn't be sufficient to make FB keep FF open. In that instance, what are the prospects for "the life sciences community" building and maintaining an open source "Son of FriendFeed"? - AJCann

'as he said to me in here yesterday' if Scoble thinks FF is dead, what is he doing hanging around the graveside ;-) ? - Jo Badge

First, they discovered an unusual compartmental structure to DNA within the nucleus: active genes tend to localize to one area and inactive ones to another. Moreover, genomic regions appear to flow in and out of these two nuclear compartments as the genes within them are turned on or off. "Cells cleverly separate the most active genes into their own special neighborhood, to make it easier for proteins and other regulators to reach them," said Dekker, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at UMass Medical School. The other remarkable result involves the finer-scale organization that the genome takes on inside nucleus. By folding into what is known as a "fractal globule," DNA condenses into an exceedingly dense structure, entirely devoid of knots, that can easily unfold and refold as needed. - Craig Overend

"Obama, fresh from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard, cheered on the effort, telling his aides he wanted to "call 'em out."" - j1m from Bookmarklet

So I wonder if this article is bending the truth? :) - Evan Parker

"two identical Microsoft marketing sites. One is a U.S. version, the other in Polish. The image is identical, except Microsoft has removed the head of the black man in the U.S. version and photoshopped in a white guy’s head instead." - Simon from Bookmarklet

Similarly, I was astonished by another Microsoft ad in Sydney, Australia, last year. It was at a very central location (Townhall station), and depicted 4 white people. Pretty astonish as looking around asians are in majority and many colours can be seen - http://ozblorg.blogspot.com/2008... - Jonas S Karlsson

Now THIS is geek pr0n - Deepak Singh from Bookmarklet

That is great :) - Bret Taylor

http://ff.im/5TaJQ :) - cyb

Congrats, Mike! - Bret Taylor

Congrats! - Benjamin Juang

For 72 years, in one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history, researchers have been following 268 men through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

That's a good article, worth reading to the end. - ta√i

“Be totally ruthless about using your time efficiently and if at any time you feel that you can’t, clock out for the day and go enjoy life” - Hacker News (via kareem) - Jason Toney

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Philipp Lenssen

In Part 2, you see a clip of him telling a (real) terrorist that Osama bin Laden looks like a dirty wizard or homeless Santa Claus, at which point he is kicked out of the terrorist's house. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. - Bret Taylor

Part 2 is also known as Part 1 plus the part that CBS couldn't get licensing rights to air (the part with the movie clip). Watching a movie clip aired on CBS uploaded to youtube and streamed through a friendfeed embed feels so incredibly meta. I'm tempted to upload a clip to vimeo of me doing this so that someone can have an even more meta experience than I. - Bill Strathearn

US Consumer Unit: Number of persons in unit: 2.5; Number of earners: 1.3; Number of vehicles owned: 1.9; Percent of expenditures spent on reading: 0.2% - ana

I have a prediction: Sooner than you might think, this will be a vegetarian world. Future generations will find the idea of eating meat both morally absurd and logistically impossible. Of course, one need only look at the booming meat industry, the climbing rates of meat consumption in the developing world, and the menu of just about any restaurant to call me crazy. But already, most people know that eating red meat is bad for their health and harmful for the planet. It's getting them to actually change their diet that's the hard part -- and that's exactly why it won't happen by choice. Going by the numbers, eating meat is pretty hard to justify for the even moderately health-conscious. A National Cancer Institute report released last March found that people who ate the most red meat were, as the New York Times put it, "most likely to die from cancer, heart disease and other causes." The biggest abstainers "were least likely to die." Those who eat five ounces of meat daily, (the... more... - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

Put perfectly, Jeff. - Christopher Harley

In the top two or three. Definitely. And sorry about the janky quality. It was taken on a mobile. And Tom is a little blurry in real life. - DeWitt Clinton

Why wouldn't he? He knows how awesome he is. He tells us all the time. : ) - DeWitt Clinton

An example of how designing for those with the least benefits the most. Also a reminder that the internet is global and needs to adapt to the user's context. - tiffany

I like it when you talk about the global impacts of the work we all do. Hot. - Jason Toney