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Shannon & Seema | Indian Lesbian Wedding | Los Angeles, CA. Two cultures. Two families. Brought together by two lovers.
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Free market capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to the rise of capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving one's fellow man. - Walter E. Williams (via donttreadonvirginia)
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Amar, Bose of sound, is dead at 83
Unlike the last name of Satyendra, Amar’s never prompted the frenzy of nationalist appropriation that gripped many when talking about their work. That’s perhaps because, even though Amar Bose’s connection to India was meagre at best, he made a global name for himself and his iconic brand,
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MIT I ask, where's my metadata?
MIT’s new app, Immersion, uses your Gmail metadata to draw a digital footprint of your email-centric life. It also shows how small apps are well poised to commercialize metadata, especially by its backers posing as research institutions instead of as commercial organizations. In the post-Snowden era, such apps comprise
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Most of the principles of the MIT Media Lab I think can be adopted by young professionals looking to make it big. It’s not safe, it’s not sure either, but it definitely re-establishes the connection with intuitive thought ("compasses") instead of the process-entombed one ("maps&
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W.B. Yeats, To a Child Dancing in the Wind Today feels like such a day...
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Star Wars posters
"Lucasfilm and Mondo commissioned me to create a new set of screen-printed posters for the original Star Wars trilogy." - Olly Moss
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Insects inspire simpler prosthetics
Evolution’s got everything going for it. Without a doubt, it’s the most powerful and efficient computing algorithm ever conceived - rather to have computed itself into existence. I don’t forget that it’s an axiomatic phenomenon, but humankind has struggled to recreate the same degree of complexity
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A 'Fight Club' graphic novel
It will, of course, be dark and messy. Due to contract obligations it can’t come to light for a while. Next year is “Beautiful You," followed by the story collection. But since the Fight Club sequel will appear serialized in graphic form, my book publisher might allow me
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Better batteries from rice husk
Research in lithium-ion batteries (LIB) is booming because the industries that use it widely are growing in number and expanding in scale. There’s been a steady march toward increasing the charge-capacity of LIBs, and apart from uniquely innovative solutions, the prevalent tendency has been toward replacing graphite anodes with
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Another window on ‘new physics’ closes
The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that has been pieced together over the last 40 years after careful experiments. It accurately predicts the behaviour of various subatomic particles across a range of situations. Even so, it’s not complete: it can explain neither gravity nor anything about