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Flickr Commons – Going Strong! | Library of Congress Blog “Most weeks, we post old news photographs that have incomplete and even erroneous titles. The steady addition of informative comments remains much appreciated, and we have folded almost 9,000 updated photo captions back into our own online catalog. The rapid deciphering of “Mystery Photos” that had no […]

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Falcons imprison live birds to keep them fresh for a later meal | New Scientist tags: falcons birds meal biology weekly Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus “designers of synthesized voice systems have begun experimenting with the insertion of naturalistic disfluencies into artificial speech.” tags: future human […]

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How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development | Psychology Today “Intellectual skills, in contrast, have to do with a person’s ways of reasoning, hypothesizing, exploring, understanding, and, in general, making sense of the world.  Every child is, by nature, an intellectual being–a curious, sense-making person, who is continuously seeking to understand his or her physical […]

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http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/LJ56-2_Mason_Article.pdf Legal analysis of 99 problems tags: law rap jay-z 99 legal weekly How well do you really know your country? Take our quiz | World news | The Guardian tags: sociology nation knowledge perception weekly country Zofia Rydet | Sociological Record ” when Rydet was 67—when she began to work on what would become […]

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Snowball | A powerful WordPress plugin for creating immersive longform articles for the web Need to give this a try. tags: wordpress plugin journalism longform weekly Dave Chappelle is creating ‘no-phone zone’ for Chicago shows – NY Daily News So many things . . . “Attendees at any of Chappelle’s 13 sold-out Thalia Hall performances […]

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Spurious Correlations tags: weekly rajive data openuptru tru research correlation causation ‘free to develop a hothouse plant that bore little resemblance to anything that grew in the natural soil’ “Protected from the harsh winds of the markets, legal educatorswere free to develop a hothouse plant that bore little resemblance toanything that grew in the natural […]

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