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Nov 01, 2010 11:18 PM
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We get it: you're a student, you're looking out at the "real world," and you're "trying to get your life together." But you're overwhelmed with options, and you end up changing career plans every three weeks. According to some psychologists, your cosmic uncertainty may be a simple matter of brain development.
May 26, 2010 10:43 PM
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Congratulations, mankind. We have officially created the first-ever cell with a self-replicating synthetic genome.
May 24, 2010 07:01 PM
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Two of the world's largest companies--Nokia and Yahoo!-- recently teamed up to bolster their numbers in the U.S. But... who cares?
May 18, 2010 12:35 PM
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For over three years, a Puerto Rican rhesus monkey nicknamed "The King" ruled his troop with an iron fist, intimidating potential challengers into upholding his unusually stable social order. Then, one day, The King was gone. Alex Kell tells the story of lust, betrayal, and love in an animal civilization all too similar to our own.
May 17, 2010 03:19 PM
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To say that college students "frequently use the internet" is to state the obvious. But what kind of impact does this have on our attention span and reading ability? What does the internet's quest to become a comprehensive Guide To Everything really mean? Calvin Woodring goes in-depth.
May 16, 2010 11:28 PM
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Problems of homelessness and extreme poverty strike far closer to home than we may imagine.
May 16, 2010 11:18 PM
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According to Consumer Reports, over half of all social network users post risky information online. Do you?
May 16, 2010 11:17 PM
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Ever wondered what it’s like to struggle with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, HIV/AIDS, Bipolar Disorder, or Epilepsy? The New York Times has interviewed individuals struggling with the above illnesses (and more) and the result is actually pretty interesting.
May 16, 2010 11:07 PM
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As the founder of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield has had an immeasurable impact on digital media. He sat down with TDI to talk copyright, grassroots photography, and bear market entrepreneurialism.
May 16, 2010 11:06 PM
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And you thought your iPhones were cool.
May 16, 2010 02:23 PM
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Cleaning up the oil spill is presenting BP with quite a challenge. Florida resident Otis Goodson might have happened upon a relatively simple solution. Adding hay to a water-oil mix captures the oil and leaves the water clean. This idea is starting to gain traction, and criticism that this method could not be applied to the gulf oil leak is largely unfounded. It's almost too simple not to work. Let's hope that BP arrives at a workable solution soon.
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us... Every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
As our best scientists constantly remind us, we live in an age of unprecedented possibility. But as the Stephen Hawkings of the world push forward, on the brink of unimaginable enlightenment, a countless sum of nameless others find themselves in the pits of meaninglessness, spending their days bagging groceries, manufacturing ceiling tiles, or begging for spare change on the sidewalk.
Here, we investigate each extreme of human accomplishment, asking what the latest developments in science, health, and technology mean for humans and our relationship with the Earth - "the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
NYT: "Federal Agency Chief Admits Lapses in Gulf Oil Spill"
Slate: "Users hate Facebook's approach to personal information. They'll get over it."
Editor:
Becky Waite
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Writers:
Daniel Butterly
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Alexander Kell
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Andrew Lohse
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Wyatt McKean
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Will Sampson
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Calvin Woodring
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TDI sits down with New Media professor Aden Evens
Have the Baby Boomers robbed us of our utopian future?
Taking "quantum mechanics" back from the humanities majors
The joys of being low-tech
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