Entries from January 2007

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

You Want Innovation? Offer a Prize

Via Marginal Revolution http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/business/31leonhardt.html?ex=1327899600&en=4aca8bec1f9a18d3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss January 31, 2007 Economix You Want Innovation? Offer a Prize By DAVID LEONHARDT Besides the fact that both are considered great movies, “The Wizard of Oz” and “Silence of the Lambs” don’t have much in common. One is the story of a girl from Kansas who’s transported to a magical land [...]

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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Topless Harry Potter

Daniel Radcliffe in Equus

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Monday, January 29th, 2007

Heart-failure Patients Show Brain Injury Linked To Depression

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050821232641.htm Heart-failure Patients Show Brain Injury Linked To Depression Science Daily — A UCLA imaging study revealed significant tissue loss in theregions of heart-failure patients' brains that regulate the autonomicnervous system, interfering with the cardiovascular system's ability to swiftly adapt to changes in blood pressure and heart rate. The damagelies in the same brain areas [...]

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Monday, January 29th, 2007

A Star Is Made:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07wwln_freak.html?ex=1170133200&en=d418b9c25a5a4c00&ei=5070 Freakonomics A Star Is Made By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT Published: May 7, 2006 The Birth-Month Soccer Anomaly Illustration by Paul Sahre If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in next month's World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players [...]

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Saturday, January 27th, 2007

elefante

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } elefante, originally uploaded by crasch. Created by Guido Daniele http://www.guidodaniele.com Via .

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Saturday, January 27th, 2007

The Grotto

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Grotto, originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs. This is an HDR photo of Hamilton Pool by Trey Ratcliff. According to Ratcliff: “Hamilton Pool, [is] one of the best kept secrets in Austin[, TX]. [...]

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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Minuscule

Minuscule. Via

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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Over Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V4Nz860gI0Via .

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Monday, January 22nd, 2007

My Brain

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } My Brain, originally uploaded by crasch. Via , courtesy of xkcd.

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Monday, January 22nd, 2007

When I become an evil dictator…

I will sponsor sporting events like this (NSFW): .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Fencing, originally uploaded by crasch.

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