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“All The Rest Is Waiting”
Retrieved this 1995 article from an old website by means of the Internet Archive. Still rings true so I thought I might give it a new lease on life – Art Sitting in a bar in Cincinnati the other night, I found myself chatting with a man whose home had been destroyed in the great [...]
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What We Feel and What We Know
The New York Times website has been running a fascinating series by Errol Morris entitled “The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is.” (Anosognosia is defined in Wikipedia as “a condition in which a person who suffers disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.”) Morris [...]
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Cesi N’est Pas Une Malamanteau
Ok, on a lighter note… the blogosphere is ablaze this afternoon with debate as to the existence and nature of the word “malamanteau.” For those who’ve missed it, the word was first introduced, so far as I can tell, about 36 hours ago in an xkcd comic. It’s a portmanteau word constructed from the terms [...]
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Just-In-Time Learning in Haiti
Wired Magazine expands on the story of Dan Wooley, an American filmmaker whose iPhone helped him survive 65 hours buried in a collapsed hotel in Haiti, even without a connection. Wooley referred to a first-aid app on the phone to confirm how he should treat his injuries. He used the alarm clock to keep him [...]
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Just-In-Time Learning
Slashdot highlights this story from the London Sun: Desperate dad Leroy Smith resorted to Google with the request “how to deliver a baby” when his wife went into labour… Mr Smith called a midwife for advice but before she arrived Emma, 25, began having powerful contractions. So the 29-year-old grabbed hold of his BlackBerry, accessed [...]
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