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Boing Boing Cal Newport, a post-doc at MIT who writes the blog Study Hacks, has an interesting method of getting important work done. He calls it "fixed-schedule productivity." The idea, in a nutshell, is this: "Fix your ideal schedule, then work backwards to make everything fit — ruthlessly culling obligations, turning people down, be (Read More)

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wired-top-stories Photo: Joe PuglieseShedding Your Identity in the Digital AgeStories From the HuntEvan’s Daily Costume ChangeMedia, From TV to Mags to Blogs, Followed the HuntSocial Networking Sites at Center of Coast-to-Coast Coordinated Search Wired Tests Writer With a Series of Bold Challenges1August 13, 6:40 PM: I’m driving East out of (Read More)

22 hours ago

wired-top-stories The Paris-Dakar Rally is a race so crazy competitors have been taken out by land mines. To say it's grueling is like saying Carrie Prejean likes shooting video. Just what sort of vehicle is required to take on a race where normal conditions include searing heat, towering dunes, ginormous rocks and weather conditions that wo (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

The Daily Dish An Southwestern High School English teacher has been suspended for having his students read an old article by Jonah Lehrer on the evolutionary roots of homosexuality. A bit from the offending article:Darwin imagined sex as a relatively straightforward transaction.Males compete for females. Evolutionary success is defined by (Read More)

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GigaOM In my first week back on the web beat at GigaOM, one of the topics I wanted to focus on was location. Let’s just say that hasn’t exactly been a difficult task. Coming at us from Boulder, San Francisco and London, here are today’s top three geo-tagging developments:SimpleGeo launched today, promising to build a contextual (Read More)

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Telegraph Science The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher's 9,300 sup (Read More)

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Crunch Gear Velcome, darling! Look what we have for you! Sergey Brin wearing VFF KSOs, CrunchGear’s favorite, as Greg calls them, “crazy monkey shoes.” I’m personally a VFF convert and I’m very impressed that Sergey is willing to walk around in these. For those not in the know, Vibram Five Fingers are ultralight running/sports shoes wi (Read More)

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Submitted by Dominik from Google Reader: Oh golly, that is just such a cute story. I never get tired of it. In fact, I think it might be the best thing Garrison Keillor ever wrote! . (Read More)

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Submitted by Dominik from Google Reader: he's the last of the original Ludicorp team to go [via] . (Read More)

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