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news aggregatorEU ministers discuss standby plans for GreeceBRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU finance ministers on Tuesday discussed standby plans drawn up by countries using the euro to provide Greece with financial help if it becomes the first state in 11 years of monetary union to seek such aid.
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Madoff family seek dismissal of cases against it(Reuters) - Andrew and Mark Madoff, sons of fraudster Bernard Madoff, have submitted a request with a U.S. court to dismiss all the complaints against them, with prejudice, court documents showed.
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Madoff family seek dismissal of cases against it(Reuters) - Andrew and Mark Madoff, sons of fraudster Bernard Madoff, have submitted a request with a U.S. court to dismiss all the complaints against them, with prejudice, court documents showed.
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Hollies, Genesis, Iggy Pop Enter Rock HallEnglish progressive rockers turned 1980s pop stars Genesis have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a New York City ceremony. They're being joined by two other acts that thrived in second lives - ABBA and The Hollies. Categories: News
Michael Jackson Estate Signs Record DealEven in death, Michael Jackson is breaking new records. The King of Pop's estate has signed the biggest recording deal in history: a $200 million guaranteed contract with Sony Music Entertainment for 10 projects over seven years, according to a person familiar with the deal. Categories: News
Visual Asimov pun in a kids' room mural
Red Red Robots make murals for kids' room walls. In this "Fantastic Forest" mural, a girl's name, "Eliza," is spelled out by fanciful characters speaking the appropriate letters... But the "I" is being said by a robot. Gettit? Asimov, an inveterate punster, would have loved this.
Red Red Robot Murals
(Thanks, Arian!)
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You're like the wind. In my NIMBY.The future of Cape Wind will be loudly contested for another few weeks. The latest wrinkle seems to be conflicting claims about the project's impact on sacred Wampanoag rituals and cultural heritage. There might even be a movie about it all. Previously.
If all this gives you a headache and you just miss the vineyard, MV times has webcams. Categories: Linkage
Karzai, Obama discuss prospects of Taliban talksKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed prospects of peace with the Taliban in a video phone conversation with President Barack Obama, Karzai's office said on Tuesday.
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Karzai, Obama discuss prospects of Taliban talksKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed prospects of peace with the Taliban in a video phone conversation with President Barack Obama, Karzai's office said on Tuesday.
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Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our handsSwimming with Great White sharks Mike Rutzen is an expert on the great white shark and an outspoken champion of shark conservation. His fame spread due to the images of his free diving exploits swimming with the animals without a cage. Mike has spent more time swimming cage-less with great whites than anyone else. He has since travelled the world lecturing on sharks and filming documentaries on them... [More video]
[Original Discover Channel program] Michael Rutzen plunges freely with a great white shark. Rutzen eats, sleeps, breathes and dreams of sharks and is on a one-man crusade to prove that rather than being the crazed man-eater from Jaws they are in fact sociable and approachable creatures to anyone who understands their body language. Categories: Linkage
Your Erdos-Bacon Number?Everyone knows about the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, right? Pursuant to this authoritative source I learned of Erdos numbers, which are fascinating in their own right, but not nearly as much as Erdos-Bacon numbers. Sir Alec Guiness does surprisingly well with a 3. Bacon does not.
My apologies if everyone else is aware of this wonderful system and I'm the last to catch on. Categories: Linkage
Record number of Chinese unhappy over inflationBEIJING (Reuters) - More than one in two Chinese savers regard the current inflation rate as unacceptable, according to a central bank survey on Tuesday that is likely to fan official concern about deteriorating inflation expectations.
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Record number of Chinese unhappy over inflationBEIJING (Reuters) - More than one in two Chinese savers regard the current inflation rate as unacceptable, according to a central bank survey on Tuesday that is likely to fan official concern about deteriorating inflation expectations.
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aka 3 pages750words.com is a simple, free site which challenges you to write 750 words (~3 pages) every day and tracks your results. The notes from happy patrons are inspiring.
All entries are private by default. Previously featured on Lifehacker. Categories: Linkage
Microbes on keyboards can be used to identify typistsA paper in Proceedings of the NAS showed that scientists were able to successfully predict who owned which keyboard and mouse based on the bacteria left behind on the keys. Each of us carries a wealth of micro-organisms (you've got 100 times more non-human cells in your body than human cells!) and that microbial nation is distinctive -- maybe as distinctive as a fingerprint. Wired talked to a microbiologist who wasn't impressed with the technique for criminal forensics (we don't know yet if microbial nations are static or if they change over time, nor how unique each one truly is), but they do note that microbes are useful in forensically distinguishing between identical twins.
"The results demonstrate that bacterial DNA can be recovered from relatively small surfaces, that the composition of the keyboard-associated communities are distinct across the three keyboards, and that individuals leave unique bacterial 'fingerprints' on their keyboards," wrote Knight and his colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
"If humans are thought of as a composite of microbial and human cells, the human genetic landscape as an aggregate of the genes in the human genome and the microbiome, and human metabolic features as a blend of human and microbial traits, then the picture that emerges is one of a human 'supra-organism'," argued a 2007 Nature paper lead-authored by Peter Turnbaugh, a Harvard microbiologist. You're Leaving a Bacterial Fingerprint on Your Keyboard Forensic identification using skin bacterial communities (Image: Toshiba M30 keyboard cleaning -IMGP7931, a Creative Commons Attribution image from footloosiety's photostream) Previously:
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The "Still-Face" ExperimentThe "Still Face" Paradigm (YT video) designed by Dr. Edward Tronick of Harvard and Childrens Hospital's Child Development Unit, is an experiment which shows us how a 1-year old child will react to a suddenly unresponsive parent. It allows us to understand how a caregiver's interactions and emotional state can influence many aspects of an infant's social and emotional development.
From Zero to Three's Helping Babies From the Bench: Using the Science of Early Childhood Development in Court. They have a Parenting Resources page. Categories: Linkage
Ray St. Ray, the Singing Cab DriverA cosmically selective process: you enter a white cab in Chicago. After the usual pleasantries, the driver asks you if you'd like to hear a song...
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London restaurant serves WWII rationing cuisineI'm intrigued by this Time Out review of Kitchen Front, a restaurant at London's Imperial War museum that serves accurate re-creations of the (mostly horrible) food eaten in Britain during WWII's rationing period. Time Out gave it two star for food quality and full marks for accuracy (in the print edition, at least -- they haven't recreated this online). It sounds like a uniquely wonderful and horrible dining experience, especially as the food is prepared by a well-loved firm of caterers who've really gotten into the spirit of things.
Salt was the dominant flavour of 'Mrs Harwood's lentil and cheese pie'. It tasted floury and bland - my grandmother used to make the same dish. I couldn't fault it for authenticity. It came with a dollop of sludgy green pease pudding, just as it might have been in the war years. The baked potato, though, was quite good, served with a fishy filling and a proper 1940s salad - English lettuce, rings of spring onion, no dressing. Sweets include scones filled with 'mock cream' made from margarine beaten with caster sugar, tasting exactly as you'd imagine it to, ie nothing like cream at all... [B]e warned that for a more fortunate generation brought up on meat, sweets, fats and deftly used spices, the drabness of austerity cooking can come as a bit of a shock I've subscribed to the print edition of Time Out for a few years now here in London -- it's the only print magazine I still subscribe to, in fact -- and I just love it to pieces. As aspirational reading about all the things I would do if I wasn't all the time running around like my ass was on fire, it can't be beat. And every now and again I get to actually follow some of its advice (I've been trying a lot of the coffee mentioned in its Best London Coffee feature last month -- yum!) and I'm never disappointed. Kitchen Front Previously:
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Seattle Mariners' Cliff Lee ejected for throwing at Arizona Diamondbacks' Chris SnyderSeattle Mariners ace Cliff Lee has been ejected from a spring training game against Arizona for throwing at Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder.
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Lakers run streak against Warriors to 9 gamesKobe Bryant scored 29 points and Pau Gasol added 26 to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to their ninth straight victory over the Golden State Warriors, 124-121 Monday night.
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