April 2010
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Apple Surpasses Motorola in Phone Sales →
Apple is now the largest U.S. maker of phones. (Forbes)
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Cake Wrecks →
When cake meets disaster. (via N.Y. Times)
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Why Women Don’t Get Enough Sleep →
It’s time to sleep. (N.Y. Times)
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Oprah: Don't Text and Drive →
Oprah comes out against distracted driving—whether phone calling or texting—advocating that we campaign against it like we have against drunk driving.
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Who's to Blame for Colonial Slavery? →
Surprise answer from Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Africans, Americans, and Europeans. (N.Y. Times)
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Airline Gives Free Flight to Apple Engineer who... →
You know the story about the frantic Apple engineer who recently lost a super-secret iPhone prototype at a German beer garden in Silicon Valley? Now, Lufthansa is offering to fly him to Munich for his troubles where he can check out the Bavarian Beer Garden Business Lounge. Who knew such a thing existed! (Via Mac Daily News)
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WatchLaunch of Apollo 11 in Super Slow Motion (Mark Gray on Vimeo via Daring Fireball)
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“In general, exercise by itself is pretty useless for weight loss.”
– Eric Ravussin, a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., and an expert on weight loss in Weighing the Evidence on Exercise (N.Y. Times)
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Behind All the Polish Flags →
The long and treacherous history between Russia and Poland has been exacerbated by the death of the Polish President. (N.Y. Times)
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With Financial Reform, Whose Side Are the... →
Republicans pretend to protect the little guy while screwing us over to protect the banks. (N.Y. Times)
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Formerly Unsober →
Life as an alcoholic. (N.Y. Times)
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Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again →
Small studies of hallucinogens has found some success for certain medical applications. It’s good to see researchers putting aside prejudices to study these drugs. Hopefully, there will be more research in this area. (N.Y. Times)
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Allergy-Free Cities →
Cities could do a lot to reduce allergies to pollen—especially tree pollen. (N. Y. Times)
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