December 2010
Culture Vulture: Porsche Spyder 1955 550 →
culture9vulture:
The Porsche 550 was a sports car produced by Porsche from 1953-1956. Inspired by the Porsche 356 which was created by Ferry Porsche, and some spyder prototypes built and raced by Walter Glöckler starting in 1951, the factory decided to build a car designed for use in auto racing. The model…
NPR Ten Best Albums 2010 →
Time Out 20 Best Albums 2010 →
Rolling Stone 30 Best Albums 2010 →
SPIN Top 40 Albums 2010 →
Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010 →
NME Top 75 Albums Of 2010 →
The Lavin Agency Blog | Speakers Bureau: Jonah... →
thelavinagency:
In this week’s New York Times Magazine, Jonah Lehrer has a big piece on why some cities fail and some succeed, and why—with striking consistency—cities of similar sizes are exactly the same in most meaningful ways. Jonah’s article is actually a profile of Geoffrey West, a physicist who claims…
Genome sequencing time can be reduced to minutes
Scientists from Imperial College London have patented technology which could unravel the human genome in minutes. Current tools which sequence DNA are incredibly complex, time-consuming and expensive but new research suggests that, within ten years, the entire human genome could be sequenced in minutes and at a fraction of the cost. The new technique could, according to the researchers, allow...
Science: The More Fox News You Watch, the Stupider... →
Facebook Will Thwart Google, Says Ex Googler →
What Are the Top-Selling Apple Apps of 2010? →
Goldman Sachs analyst Sarah Friar continues to...
Flash picked up a research note she issued suggesting the company’s revenue growth would slow from 12% in 2010 to 7% in 2011. Friar singled out Microsoft’s lack of tablet response as a reason for her pessimism. Microsoft still doesn’t have a dedicated tablet product group, although the Windows team is reportedly working on making the next version of Windows better suited for...
Seize The iPad Now, Gardner Advises CEOs →
Google Zeitgest →
What Are the Top-Selling Apple Apps of 2010? →
Google Will Rat You Out to the Feds for $25 →
Fitch sees 10% drop in home prices in 2011,... →
The Death of the Suburban Office Park →
Times Will Rank E-Book Best Sellers →
Aspirin Helps in Reducing Cancer Deaths, a Study...
As part of the new study, published online Monday in the journal Lancet, researchers examined the cancer death rates of 25,570 patients who had participated in eight different randomized controlled trials of aspirin that ended up to 20 years earlier. Participants who had been assigned to the aspirin arms of the studies were 20 percent less likely after 20 years to have died of solid tumor cancers...
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