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  • Steve Jobs' 10 Commandments

    The Daily Beast | October 06, 2011

    Steve Jobs' 10 Commandments...

  • Steve Jobs, Apple's Visionary, Dies at 56

    John Markoff, The New York Times | October 06, 2011

    Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56...

  • The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts

    Natalie Angier, The New York Times | October 05, 2011

    Some years ago, Dr. Robert A. Burton was the neurologist on call at a San Francisco hospital when a high-profile colleague from the oncology department asked him to perform a spinal tap on an elderly patient with advanced metastatic cancer. The patient had seemed a little fuzzy-headed that morning, and the oncologist wanted to check for meningitis or another infection that might be treatable with antibiotics...

  • Apocalypse on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers Who Love to Vote No

    David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post | October 05, 2011

    On Capitol Hill, they are the apocalypse caucus. Twenty lawmakers, from both parties, who calculate that the best way to fix government is to act as if you wouldn’t mind if it burned down...

  • Will a Fat Tax Make Denmark Healthier?

    Sarah Kliff, The Washington Post | October 05, 2011

    Over the weekend, Denmark became the first country to tax saturated fats...

  • Can Answers to Evolution Be Found in Slime?

    Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | October 04, 2011

    Most of the aliens that come out of Hollywood don’t really look alien at all. They may have pizza-size eyes or roachlike antennae, but their oddities are draped on a familiar humanoid frame. If you want to find life forms that truly seem otherworldly, your local forest is a much better place than your local cineplex. It is home to creatures that are immensely old, fundamentally bizarre and capable of startlingly sophisticated behavior. They are the slime molds...

  • 'Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?' : The Provocateur Toure Has a Few Ideas.

    J. Freedom du Lac, The Washington Post | October 04, 2011

    Ablack man is guided to a table at a pub in Harvard Square. He is surrounded by white people. He sees fried chicken on the lunch menu. Does he dare order it?

    Touré shrugs. “I’ll have the fried chicken,” he tells the waiter. Hold the stereotypes....

  • Occupy Wall Street: Flash in the Pan or Beginning of a Movement?

    Gloria Goodale, The Christian Science Monitor | October 04, 2011

    A growth spurt sent the Occupy Wall Street movement sprawling across the U.S. and into other countries. It's showing greater organization and widening appeal. Will it hold together?...

  • The Documentary Palin Will Hate

    Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast | October 03, 2011

    In-your-face focumentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield turns his uncompromising lens on former Alaska governor in 'Sarah Palin: You Betcha!'...

  • Our Unprepared Graduates

    Kathleen Parker, Washington Post Opinion | October 03, 2011

    Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom? Certainly not for the many young Americans being graduated from colleges that have prepared them inadequately for the competitive marketplace. The failure of colleges and universities to teach basic skills, while coddling them with plush dorms and self-directed “study,” is a dot-connecting exercise for Uncle Shoulda, who someday will say — in Chinese — “How could we have let this happen?”...