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Mary J. Ray, oldest person in the US, dead at 114 - The Boston Globe "Ray was just a few days younger than the oldest person in the world, Kama Chinen of Japan, who is 114 years and 303 days.......

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Do scientists really need a PhD? : Article : Nature "Young scientists at a Chinese genomics institute are foregoing conventional postgraduate training for the chance to be part of major scientific initiatives. Is this the way of the future?" Maybe......

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BenchFly - Science Videos, Laboratory Techniques and Current Protocols Hm. One more thing that proves I'm a thinker and not a do-er. I was thinking how cool would it be to create a web site full of videos to teach......

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Navigating the maze of sugar and artificial sweeteners [via @skinny] (tags: biology molecularist science sugar nutrition chemistry) Pew: Portals Most Commonly Used News Sites ORLY? Portal = Info dashboard = Info filter. And Google, AOL, Topix are just "default" portals......

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Continuous publishing through Live Editions - Tools of Change for Publishing "The Live Edition is presently available as an Ebook (PDF, Mobi, and ePub) bundle, and the updated content will also be available through Safari Books Online and eventually print......

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Meyer and Evanovich Turn Stories Into Graphic Novels - NYTimes.com "Look! Up in the sky! It’s a prose author moving a ton of graphic novels!" (tags: books nytimes comics graphic publishing writing novels trend)...

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Best Hospital Facebook Pages – Children’s Hospitals "Children’s Hospital Boston has created a Facebook page by which all other hospital pages should be judged. It’s so impressive it inspired a future Alert Presence article, “The Anatomy of a Great Hospital......

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How many Kindles have really been sold? (And other interesting tidbits about ebooks) Good analysis [via @atmaspere] (tags: marketing data ebook kindle ebooks amazon sales trend industry business publishing ipad iphone molecularist) Alternate “life” styles: scientists predict the possibility of......

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Evolution F*cked Your Shit Up: The World’s 50 Freakiest Animals (tags: science biology funny humor photos evolution list bizarre weird strange awesome animals images nature lists gallery animal freaky)...

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A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine Just brilliant. "The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were born seems normal, anything that is developed......

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10 sages read the future of print Very good range of ideas (though a tad predictable). Two I liked in particular were from Paul LeClerc, President and CEO, New York Public Library, and Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg. Go and......

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Storybird - Collaborative storytelling [via @bryanrieger] (tags: writing storytelling collaboration books story publishing interactive digitalstorytelling) Panelfly | Revolutionizing Mobile Comics [via @bryanrieger] (tags: iphone comics design app mobile comic apps)...

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ImPACT Test "ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) is the first, most-widely used, and most scientifically validated computerized concussion evaluation system." (tags: concussion medicine sports safety athletes kids children injury brain health testing test) Concussion care for student-athletes -......

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Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks "By contrast, "a less connected person who is strategically placed in the core of the network will have a significant effect that leads to dissemination through a large......

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