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March 31, 2016 Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life "I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper." - Buckminster Fuller in 1965, as told to Studs Terkel |
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March 30, 2016 Horrible Jargon We Got Used To Everybody hates management-speak and corporate jargon, but here are some terms that people used to think of as horrible jargon that we all got used to. Maybe one day we'll all be leveraging deliverables without a second thought. Produced for Mental Floss |
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| March 24, 2016 A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2 An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Link |
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| March 22, 2016 Buck the Cubicle #2 Bruce Gardner excels at the Japanese art of Hikaru Dorodango, or "Shiny Dumpling". He first learned about the practice from the sci-fi writer William Gibson, and the rest is history. Bruce is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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| March 18, 2016 The Ellipsis: Yadda Yadda Yadda The ellipsis indicates that something has been omitted. It could be something you’re trying to gloss over, like a mistake or an affair, or it could be something unutterably boring, like . . . I can’t think of anything boring enough. Note that the ellipsis can also be used to show that a conversation is trailing off, as above. A combination of a period and an ellipsis requires precise use of inner space. |
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| March 15, 2016 Skeleton Lake | 100 Wonders | Atlas Obscura Where Dylan of Atlas Obscura tells you about his favorite places on the planet! |
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| March 14, 2016 Why The War on Drugs Is a Huge Failure The war against drugs has been a terrible disaster for everybody involved. Why? And can we do something differently? Link |
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| March 11, 2016 The Hidden World of Chocolate Undergraduates at Johns Hopkins University are getting a close up look at chocolate. |
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| March 10, 2016 The Double Vocabulary of English Why does English have so many words that have twins? Here's how we got to have two vocabularies, one based in Germanic roots, and one based in Latin. |
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| March 3, 2016 Zebra vs Horse Why only some animals are domesticable |
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| March 1, 2016 You May Be A Photographer, But Are You An Artist? Think before you shoot... Here are 7 thoughts from world-renowned artist Roger Ballen. |
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