1. Goodbye to Oprah’s Golden Ticket 8 hours ago permalinkThat sound you hear is a thousand book publicists wailing. Oprah Winfrey will announce today that her eponymous talk show will end in September 2011. That means that in less than two years, the ultimate book publicity coup will be off the table.
2. Free books used as tools to fight evolution 1 hour ago permalinkHundreds of college students were surprised on Wednesday when they were handed free copies of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" as they walked across campus. But they were perhaps even more surprised when they opened the book and discovered that it contained a 50-page foreword by a Christian ...
3. Interest rates: the phantom menace 3 hours ago permalinkFrom various bat squeaks I’ve put together a view of what I think lies behind the surprising — and damaging — deficit squeamishness of the Obama administration. So here’s what I think they’re thinking — and why it’s wrong-headed. (Fairly wonkish stuff after the jump).
4. RealTime CrunchUp: Win A Signed Copy Of Benioff’s ‘Behind The Cloud’ 47 minutes ago permalinkToday at the RealTime CrunchUp Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the social enterprise with Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gillmor (he also introduced us to a new real-time Salesforce Chatter platform). Benioff has also signed a pair of copies of his book Behind The Cloud , which we're going to be giving away to attendees of ...
5. The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't 1 hour ago permalinkMuch is being made by those who really, really believe that there's a global conspiracy among climatologists of the emails and other documents stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit . According to such bloggers, thousands of "embarrassing" pieces of correspondence between some of the leading climate researchers in the ...
6. Facebook Agrees To Set Friend Lists Free. Mashups With Twitter Lists Should Follow. 1 hour ago permalinkToday, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp , Seesmic's Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn't giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that's a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you'd expect a canned response along ...
7. New Google News for mobile 1 hour ago permalinkAt Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you've given us about Google News for mobile. Today we're excited to announce a completely new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. (We already offer a mobile-optimized version of Google ...
8. Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What’s Really Happening Now 43 minutes ago permalinkYesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from "What Are You Doing?" to "What's Happening?" But the new call to action might be better suited to Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. Hot Potato is releasing an iPhone app which lets you create a stream of conversations around events based both on your ... 9. Almod�var�s Happy Agony, Swirling Amid Jealousy and Revenge 48 minutes ago permalinkCan there be such a thing as exuberant melancholy? I can’t think of another way to describe the spirit of “Broken Embraces,” Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, the title of which carries a telling hint of paradox. It is grave and effervescent, tender and cruel.
10. One that got away, for today 53 minutes ago permalinkChagrin and admission: I got so engrossed in old crocodiles and maize and other things that I ran out of time to gather up another news gusher that I had on the list. Science magazine and an article on the demise of mammoths and mastadons garnered a good deal of press attention. I’ll try to [...] 11. The Lauras Win! 54 minutes ago permalinkWhen Laura Buxton of Staffordshire, England, wrote “Please return to Laura Buxton” on a helium balloon before setting it free in her yard, she never expected it to reach another human being, much less one also named Laura Buxton. In “A Very Lucky Wind,” the first segment of our Stochasticity episode, we marvel at the coincidence ...
12. Yahoo! Adds Tweets, Breaking News to News Shortcut 2 hours ago permalinkAfter announcements from Google and Bing about incorporating Twitter into their search results, Yahoo! is throwing hopping on the real-time results news bandwagon. Yahoo!'s Twitter integration is part of a new update when the News Shortcut is implemented in the search results. Yahoo! is also recognizing when there's breaking news and indicating ...
13. Sweet corn story begins in UW-Madison lab 1 hour ago permalinkMADISON This week, scientists are revealing the genetic instructions inside corn, one of the big three cereal crops. Corn, or maize, has one of the most complex sequences of DNA ever analyzed, says University of Wisconsin-Madison genomicist David Schwartz, who was one of more than 100 authors in the article in the journal Science.
14. Today's carnivals 1 hour ago permalinkThe 124th Meeting Of The Skeptics' Circle is up on Beyond the Short Coat Friday Ark #270 is up on Modulator Read the comments on this post... 15. The Dragon Doctors 1 hour ago permalinkIn a fantasy world, fantastic problems require fantastic solutions! Enter the Dragon Doctors, mystic doctors who can cure anyone of anything! As the times change, so do they, but the cases never stop. Updates 3-5 times a week. 16. FunMail Takes The Work Out Of Picture Messaging 1 hour ago permalinkEveryone loves picture messaging – or at least, they love the idea of it. The iPhone carrying masses clamored for it, then celebrated once they got it by sending everyone pictures of their immediate surroundings and beloved pets before forgetting the feature exists. After the novelty wears off, it’s generally reserved for the ... 17. Electricity Gone Wild 1 hour ago permalinkA high-voltage arc caused by a 500kV Switch opening up in the Nevada Desert. An enormous Jacob's Ladder Read the comments on this post... 18. The Republic 1 hour ago permalinkThe Republic by Plato is simply an outstanding book that give one a grand perspective. I'm very happy to have engaged this work because it stimulates the mind and furthers my thinking processes. 19. Guardians of Being 1 hour ago permalinkIf you are one of those organized people interested in completing your holiday shopping as quickly and unerringly as possible, I have a suggestion for you: Pick up a copy of Guardians of Being by Eckhart Tolle with illustrations by Patrick McDonnell. In fact, while you’re at it, you might ... 20. The Buzz: The Great Debate 1 hour ago permalinkThe pitched battle between evolutionary theory and Intelligent Design has become one of the signature conflicts of the decade. On Pharyngula, PZ Myers picks up the pieces after his debate with Jerry Bergman on whether ID should be taught in schools. Unambiguously he writes, "creationists are not the heralds of a coming paradigm shift; they are ... |
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