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Flick Daily | Daily Movie News: Aleksei Balabanov obituary Film-maker known for his dark take on post-Soviet Russia Aleksei Balabanov, who has died aged 54 after suffering a seizure, saw himself as the "anti-establishment rock'n'roller of Russian film" with an aim to make "scandalous, harsh cinema". Man...
In Entertainment | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:37am -07:00T (815 words)
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Brain Fitness Blog: Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric brain stimulation plus cognitive training? Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. People who received brain stimulation d...
In Health & Fitness | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:03am -07:00T (280 words)
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Brain Fitness Blog: Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric brain stimulation plus cognitive training? Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. People who received brain stimulation d...
In Health & Fitness | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:33am -07:00T (280 words)
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Flick Daily | Daily Movie News: Cannes 2013: Tip Top - first look review Bill James's crime thriller is sexed-up and transplanted to France, with Isabelle Huppert in the lead. But the odd mix of bloody murder and comedy couplings means the flick belies its title Tip Top – based on a crime thriller by British novelist Bi...
In Entertainment | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:37am -07:00T (519 words)
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Wiki How: How to Roll a Sleeping Bag Rolling a sleeping bag is an essential skill for a camper. Whether you want to pack the sleeping bag down for its smaller carry bag or you just want to keep it clean and make it easier to transport, rolling the sleeping bag is straightforward.
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In General | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:48am -07:00T (523 words)
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Crooks and Liars: Anonymous launches Operation Guantanamo
On Friday, May 17, the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous, joined by Code Pink and other political action groups from the U.S. and the U.K., launched Operation Guantanamo to mark the 100th day of a hunger strike within the ...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:46am -07:00T (393 words)
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Slashdot: Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year First time accepted submitter russotto points out the claim of industry group TechAmerican Foundation (reported by Computerworld) that "wages for the software industry are falling, not rising. Wages fell 2% to $99,000 in 2012." Averages are one thing; the...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:46am -07:00T (186 words)
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Power Line: A durable libel (Scott Johnson) Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. Based on film footage ...
In Israel, Politics | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:15am -07:00T (590 words)
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Brain Fitness Blog: Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric brain stimulation plus cognitive training? Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. People who received brain stimulation d...
In Health & Fitness | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:18am -07:00T (280 words)
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MobileCrunch: Android's Design Principles And The Calculus Of The Human Pleasure Response Android UX and interaction design leads Helena Roeber and Rachel Garb gave a talk at Google I/O this year about the Android Design Principles (ADP) they helped create and introduced back in 2012 with the launch of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The ADP f...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-19 12:01pm -07:00T (846 words)
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Brain Fitness Blog: Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric brain stimulation plus cognitive training? Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. People who received brain stimulation d...
In Health & Fitness | Dateline: 2013-05-19 12:04pm -07:00T (280 words)
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TechCrunch: Iterations: How Tech Hedge Funds And Investment Banks Make Sense Of Apple's Share Buybacks Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Apple has a good deal of cash. And, in the Valley, the startup ecosystem — for many reasons — wants to see Apple spend that cash. As their...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:46am -07:00T (1580 words)
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Web Urbanist: Scooped: 12 Chilled Out Abandoned Ice Cream Stands [ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] Cone in 60 seconds? Though these 12 cool abandoned ice cream stands thought they could take a licking and keep on ticking, they ended up just being licked. Twistee Treat Retreat (image via: Telestar Logi...
In Entertainment | Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:49am -07:00T (510 words)
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Brain Fitness Blog: Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric brain stimulation plus cognitive training? Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up symbols. People who received brain stimulation d...
In Health & Fitness | Dateline: 2013-05-19 11:03am -07:00T (280 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Those Online Dictionaries
Since English is an acquired language for me, I am a very frequent user of English dictionaries — and foreign language dictionaries, too, but more on that later. Thus it is no surprise that an article, “The Role of a Dictionary,” by David Skinn...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-05-19 12:03pm -07:00T (918 words)
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