Facebook now tracks what you buy at drugstore (using tech from Datalogix). Are you shocked that opt-out is difficult? http://t.co/MFMu7o9F

Nature | News Sharing Consortium brokers agreement with 12 journals. Richard Van Noorden Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions CERN Freeview: experimental results from high-energy physics, such as this fireball of quarks and gluons, should soon be published in open-access papers. The entire field…

leggete: “@doonie: Articolo pazzesco di Carlo Puca (Panorama), che è stato per tre mesi infiltrato a Scampia - http://t.co/3hldKxvY”

[bjp_ad_slot] Instagram is more than just a filter application for iPhone and Android phone users. Its goal, as defined by Systrom and Krieger, was to make mobile phone photography fast, simple and beautiful. “When we sat down to start designing our product, we looked at digital photos and realised…

Da leggere "Il baratro lunare che molti umanisti pongono fra Cultura Umanistica e cultura scientifica" http://t.co/LLxdsh2u

E ighteen months into my job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, a foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George Kennan, I found myself in New York, at the United Nations’ annual assemblage of every foreign minister and head of state in the…

Lower case ‘a’ from Adobe Caslon Pro, superposed onto some guides. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was lucky about 25 years ago — I got a job working with someone who was fascinated with typography and who knew it well. I’d dabbled a bit in it, as my college newspaper migrated from phototypesetting to…

Neil Armstrong smiles inside the Lunar Module on July 20, 1969 NASA/Newsmakers. I always hoped I would be alive to see the first man walk on the moon. I was, and I got to write about it. I never thought I also would be alive to see the last man land on the moon. I covered Neil Armstrong when he…

ROME (Reuters) - Times are now so tough that Valerio Novelli, a ticket inspector on Rome’s buses, is planning to sell his old gold teeth. “I can’t get to the end of the month without running up debts,” said Novelli, 56, who has to support an ex-wife and daughter. “I know I won’t get much, but I need…

How to get a Nature paper using some spare chemicals, an E-Bay purchase and a fight with your wife: http://t.co/ixnoJDs9

Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. When I was a teenager, newly fixated on becoming a writer, I came across a piece of advice from Kurt Vonnegut that affected me like an ice cube down the back of my shirt. “Do not use semicolons,” he said. “They are transvestite hermaphrodites…

Errol Morris on photography. This is the second installment in a two-part series. 4. THE BASKERVILLE CURSE If innocents are the favourites of Heaven, And God but little asks where little’s given, My great Creator has for me in store Eternal joys; what wise man can have more? — Gravestone inscription…

Errol Morris on photography. This is the first installment in a two-part series. 1. THE QUIZ [1] The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes… — Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” NOTE: This is a follow-up to my quiz that ran in The Times, “Are You an…

I had been a pretty decent photographer for a long time, churning out coverages for mags like SI, Nat Geo and LIFE, and just generally living a life through the lens in fairly typical, routine fashion. Phone rings, get on a plane, bring back some pictures. I mean, I got noticed every once in a…

Danica McKellar's 5 tips to conquer math phobia, for your kids' sake (via @danicamckellar ) http://t.co/g87YNN6Q

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Priceless, timeless: 10 rules for students, teachers, and life by John Cage and Sister Corita Kent http://t.co/zDIeVHDr

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10 essential books on typography http://t.co/4E3QuZln

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used…

Dopo la decrescita, ora qualche pensiero sui concetti di crescita e sviluppo, in ottica economica standard – la famosa/famigerata crescita infinita – sostenibile e decrescista. L’argomento è vasto e questo non vuol essere un post esaustivo sull’argomento, quanto un work-in-progress per fissare le…

23 febbraio 2012 E’ da un po’ che volevo scrivere qualcosa sulla decrescita, ma per mancanza di tempo non ci sono mai riuscito. Questo non vuol essere un post esaustivo sull’argomento, quanto un work-in-progress per districarsi in quel crogiuolo di opinioni e cialtronerie che è diventata la…

Springsteen wants his audience to leave the arena, as he commands them, with “your back hurting, your voice sore, and your sexual organs stimulated.” Photograph by Julian Broad Nearly half a century ago, when Elvis Presley was filming “Harum Scarum” and “Help!” was on the charts, a moody,…

In an age obsessed with practicality, productivity, and efficiency, I frequently worry that we are leaving little room for abstract knowledge and for the kind of curiosity that invites just enough serendipity to allow for the discovery of ideas we didn’t know we were interested in until we are,…

I have been asked recently to write an article, somewhat along the lines of this one but longer, and with a somewhat different angle, asking a little bit different questions: What makes a science blog? Who were the first science bloggers and how long ago? How many science blogs are there? How does…

Daniel Haskett The July 4 announcement that the “Higgs boson” had been discovered at the CERN laboratory in Geneva made news around the world. Why all the fuss? New discoveries of elementary particles have been made from time to time without attracting all this attention. It is often said that this…

paul call 1020 The hyperlink architecture of the internet allows for an only-in-the-21st-century kind of binge. It always starts innocuously enough. Like, one time I saw a video of someone explaining their Yu-Gi-Oh deck, and I didn't understand 90 percent of the words they were using. So I read the…

Ci sono infiniti modi di parlare delle cose davvero importanti. Che poi alla fine sono poche. L’amore, la vita e la morte, forse. E anche la vita e la morte, in fondo, non sono che il rovescio l’una dell’altra. Tutto il resto, paragonato a questa triade, ha la stessa funzione della ruota del…