January 2010
“The most significant thing is that this shows it would be possible for someone...”
– Device turns thoughts into speech - Innovation- msnbc.com
December 2009
“Instead of coffee for breakfast, many Colombians prefer hot chocolate, juices...”
– Colombian coffee | Juan Valdez
“When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.”
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20091211/1afedpay11_st.art.htm?loc=interstitialskip
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“In Saudi, it’s hard to be straight when you’re young. The women are...”
Karen managed to beg from her friends for a few weeks, “but it was so humiliating. I’ve never lived like this. I worked in the fashion industry. I had my own shops. I’ve never…” She peters out.
Daniel was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment at a trial he couldn’t understand. It was in Arabic, and there was no translation. “Now I’m here...
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall... →
“Students thinking of going to graduate school in English should understand that...”
– A Sign of Higher Education’s “Blowoff Rally”?
Brain Damage and the NFL
This is by no means a follow up or related post to my collection of NFL Music Videos. It’s but an excerpt from the recent coverage in GQ of research of brain injuries. The article is “Game Brain” and it will rattle the (American) football industry:
What the NFL couldn’t have known then, of course, is that by the time Omalu’s article was published, he had already gotten a second...
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM A Green World (an ode to the... →
Best Decades of the Decade — The Bygone Bureau →
US environmentalists split over whether Obama’s move was a triumphant save or an act of self-interest. Environmental Defense Fund head Fred Krupp and League of Conservation Voters president Gene Karpinski high-fived each other in a Bella Center hallway. “Obama has delivered the clear breakthrough we needed on climate change,” exclaimed Jeremy Symons, a senior vice president of...
WatchMajor Lazer - Keep it goin’ louder
