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  WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

  the remote northern areas of Scotland

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  Be it our care and delight
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  WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

  my baby grand piano

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  Be it our care and delight
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  The Best American Science Writing 2010: Free Essays Jerome Groopman, the New Yorker staff writer and Harvard med school prof, has edited The Best American Science Writing 2010 - a new collection that brings together “the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing” during the past 12 months. The 368 page book runs $10.19 online. But before you run out and buy it, [...]

  The Best American Science Writing 2010: Free Essays is a post from: Open Culture. Visit us at www.openculture.com

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  Arts & Letters Daily (27 Oct 2010)

  Fifty years ago a favorite language dispute showed up in print. A reader asked Ann Landers if it was "I couldn't care less," or "I could care less"... more

  Russian roulette is not a game volcanoes lose. Which does not keep those who live nearby from treating their local volcano as a mascot or lucky charm... more

  Homer's Odyssey, the most magnificent travel record of all time, is about one man's courage, cunning, and will to prevail, with or without help from the gods. It is also about wisdom... more

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  Malcolm Gladwell: Taxes Were High and Life Was Just Fine Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, has lost some friends lately among geeks (term used lovingly, if not self-referentially) and conservatives. First came the suggestion that Twitter hasn’t made human change agents obsolete. We still need MLKs and Gandhis to change the world. And then, speaking at The New [...]

  Malcolm Gladwell: Taxes Were High and Life Was Just Fine is a post from: Open Culture. Visit us at www.openculture.com

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  Art in “Augmented Reality” at The Getty Museum We’re getting closer to a world where you can ask: why go to a museum when it can come to you? This summer, the Getty Museum used Augmented Reality (AR) technology to showcase one of the most complex objects in its collection – The Augsburg Display Cabinet (or Kabinettschrank) built around 1630. As shown above, [...]

  Art in “Augmented Reality” at The Getty Museum is a post from: Open Culture. Visit us at www.openculture.com

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  Shakespeare in the Original Voice This fall, Paul Meier, a theatre professor at the University of Kansas, is working with students to stage the first-ever American rendition of a Shakespeare play – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – in its original pronunciation. As The History Blog writes, there have only been “three other productions of original pronunciation (OP) Shakespeare before this one, 2 at [...]

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  The Milky Way in 360 Degrees Stéphane Guisard traveled to the Paranal observatory, situated in Chile’s remote Atacama desert, in search of the “darkest sky.” The result? Some amazing zoomable, fisheye images that reveal the darkest of dark skies (including a glimpse of the Gegenschein). And then also this “byproduct”: a 360 degree panoramic view of the Milky Way that lies [...]

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  Malcolm Gladwell: Who really rescued General Motors? In February of 2009, Steven Rattner was selected by the Obama Administration to oversee the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. It was not a popular choice. Rattner was a Wall Street financier with no expertise in the automobile business. The head of the United Auto Workers, the chairman . . .

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  The New Yorker
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  Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks goatTitle-->RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART<!--/goatTitle--> Following a screening of the new film “Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames”—about the Jungian analyst—the writer and religious scholar Andrew Harvey talks with the playwright Eve Ensler about death. The event is part of the museum’ . . .

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  The New Yorker
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  Goings on About Town: Night Life PageBreak --> <!--goatcategory-->ROCK AND POP<!--/goatcategory--> Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements. <!--goatTitle-->ALICE TULLY HALL<!--/goatTitle--> Broadway at 65th St. (212-721-6500)—Oct. 30: Antony and the Johnsons, accompanied by the Orchestra of St. Luke’ . . .

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  The New Yorker