I just want to add to the chorus…. I find it rather upsetting that this great integration feature no longer works!
https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/73733-eye-fi-is-decommissioning-evernote-support
Power of 2 http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/06/the-power-of-two/372289 The #Lennon-#McCartney partnership demonstrates the brilliance, but not always harmony, of creative pairs
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Despite the mythology around the idea of the lone genius, the famous
partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney demonstrates the
brilliance of creative pairs.
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Joshua Wolf Shenk
JULY/AUGUST 2014
Maybe next is Venter-Lander
Harvard secretly photographed [2000] students to study… attendance [in 10 classes], raising #privacy concerns
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/05/harvard-secretly-photographed-students-study-class-attendance-raising-privacy-concerns/hC8TBdGdZmQehg0lAhnnJN/story.html
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Harvard University has revealed that it secretly photographed some 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study of classroom attendance, an admission that prompted criticism from faculty and students who said the research was an invasion of privacy. The clandestine experiment, disclosed publicly for the first time at a faculty meeting Tuesday night, came to light about a year-and-a-half after revelations that administrators had secretly searched thousands of Harvard e-mail accounts. That led the university to implement new privacy policies on electronic communication this spring, but another round of controversy followed the latest disclosure.
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Dear Alumni,
I am delighted to announce the release of the first-ever Harvard University Department of Physics newsletter.
Whether you are near or far, we hope that this publication virtually brings you back to campus….
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https://www.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/Newsletter_Fall_2014.pdf
Sliding #Oil & Gas Prices
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/business/economy/lower-oil-prices-give-a-lift-to-the-american-economy.html US spends $1B/day on gas, 1.4K gal/yr/person; $3.23/gal 11/13 price, falling to $2.89 now
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With Americans spending roughly $1 billion a day on gasoline, Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service, estimates that consumers will save roughly $8.4 billion in November and December, compared with the last two months of 2013, based on an average price for regular gasoline of about $2.89 a gallon as opposed to $3.23 last November and $3.26 last December.
The typical American household buys 1,200 gallons annually, so if prices fall to the level Mr. Kloza predicts and stay there, that adds up to a yearly savings per household of at least $400. A 15 percent drop in the cost of home heating oil since last winter should also be helpful, especially as cold weather arrives in the Northeast.
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