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Prolific and well-respected film critic Roger Ebert has died at 70.
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Boston taxi cab drivers, often cheated, work in a world where risk and reward are a mismatch.
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In 1957, famed studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco, along with percussionist Al Bello, recorded Miss Calypso, featuring a young singer named Maya Angelou.
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Will online education dampen the college experience? Yes. Will it be worth it? Well...
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Mining books to map emotions through a century. Emotion words aren't consistently used through time, it seems. Things got scary in the 80's.
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Following on MartinWisse's earlier post. The US National Science Foundation also maintains an extensive photo library with some amazing high resolution images which are free to use with very reasonable restrictions The photos are contributed by science and support personnel working in the US Antarctic Program. These public archives are amazing resources, but sadly sometimes an unsavory character will mine them and seek to profit from the work of others. Let's hope such actions don't lead to organizations taking their photos offline.
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Magnus Carlsen will be playing Viswanathan Anand for the 2013 World Chess Championship.
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"Princeton mother Susan Patton dropped an antiquated bomb on the Internet Friday." Her basic message in a letter to The Daily Princetonian: Women don’t need a career or independence to feel fulfilled; what they need is a husband.*
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Last month, Robbie Rogers came out and announced he'd left football. In an interview with the Guardian, he reflects on coming out in professional football.
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The social book site Goodreads has been acquired by Amazon. Many members are upset and uncertain what this means for site which has relied on members to do the work of building and maintaining their database. Amazon already owns Shelfari and has a 40% stake in LibraryThing, two competing sites.
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A Primer for Straights on the Politics of ‘Gay’ Marriage
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Income At Home, Herbalife, and the $8 billion pyramid. Exposing the iconic brand behind Scamworld’s most visible ‘biz opp’. [Previously 1, 2]
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How Ellen DeGeneres Helped Change The Conversation About Gays

"Ellen DeGeneres is ... almost a litmus test of where we have been as a society," [Dietram Scheufele, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin] says. "When she first came out and really put the issue of same-sex partnerships on people's agendas, and I mean people who really wouldn't have thought about it, I think the country was still in a very different state."

From her first stand-up performance on national TV in the US in 1986, the same year that the Supreme Court ruled that states have right to enforce code of sexual behavior, to 2008, when Ellen married Portia de Rossi, after California's Supreme Court ruled a previous ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional, Ellen's public life has mirrored the broader shift towards accepting homosexuality.
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BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders asks "Should Britain let go of London?"
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Good photos of cool rich midcentury Americans on yachts in New England.
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Earlier today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the California Prop 8 case, Hollingsworth v. Perry. SCOTUSblog has a round-up of their analysis of today's arguments here. NYT article. LA Times article.
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