M66 Bus Gets Pokey Award http://www.wsj.com/articles/manhattans-m66-bus-gets-pokey-award-1450193429 Averages 3.1 mph, which is the most "preferred" human walking speed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_walking_speed
Discussion about listing babies & cats as co-authors on scientific
manuscriptshttp://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/57120/can-i-add-a-baby-as-a-co-author-of-a-scientific-paper via @bornalibran #authorship
The Man Who Broke the #Music Business http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business An original conduit for the #MP3 & Napster boom, the dawn of digital piracy
Annals of Technology APRIL 27, 2015 ISSUE
The Man Who Broke the Music Business
The dawn of online piracy.
BY STEPHEN WITT
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“I am a noisy introvert. My sister Randi made up that phrase and it describes lots of people I know. Lots of writers seem to be introverts who love to now and then be on stage. Lots of radio people too. I covet large amounts of time alone, and I’m most comfortable and very happy when I’m alone, but obviously there’s another side to me because true introverts don’t end up with their own national radio shows.” “}}
http://lifehacker.com/im-ira-glass-host-of-this-american-life-and-this-is-h-1609562031
Genetics & That Striped Dress
http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/genetics-and-that-striped-dress @23andme on-the-fly SNP associations w/ pop trends. Next: targeting ads w/ alleles
An Art Auction for Computer #Code
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/beautiful-code
Wonder if RSA in 4 lines of perl
(http://gerstein.info/fun/perl-rsa.big.gif) would fetch a good bid?
#Spock of Star Trek Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html Obit notes that split-fingered salute is based on shin, 1st letter of a Hebrew name for God
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“His religious upbringing also influenced the characterization of Spock. The character’s split-fingered salute, he often explained, had been his idea: He based it on the kohanic blessing, a manual approximation of the Hebrew letter shin, which is the first letter in Shaddai, one of the Hebrew names for God.
“To this day, I sense Vulcan speech patterns, Vulcan social attitudes and even Vulcan patterns of logic and emotional suppression in my behavior,” Mr. Nimoy wrote years after the original series ended.”
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Uptown top ranking http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/03/daily-chart Most #expensive #cities to live in: 1 Singapore, 2 Paris, 3 Oslo, 4 Zurich; London >10, NYC at 22
