December 2011
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The Heat of the Dance Floor, The Chill and Damp of...
The DJ saved my life last night. At the close of every year my mind has a tendency to wander over the craggy territory of memory. It lands in odd places on the timeline. Lingers over the strangest things. Things that happened ages ago, a fortnight ago, yesterday, when I was a child. In the days leading up to New Year’s Eve, as I lay my head to sleep I am visited.  This year, it’s...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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Emeli Sandé - Daddy (Pedestrian Remix)
youllsoonknow: Download: Emeli Sandé - Daddy (Pedestrian Remix) Brand new music from the mighty Pedestrian for you today, which is in the form of a beautiful remix of Emeli Sandé. Don’t forget he did a great podcast for us - well worth checking if you have not yet done so. Read More This lady’s work is tough to track down, but what I’ve found is vocalist-tastic.
Dec 28th
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Alpine - Hands If American Apparel were hired to do a music video, this is what it would look like. That said, I find myself strangely aroused, missing warm weather and watermelon, wishing all my underclothes weren’t so… black…
Dec 28th
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An MRI machine could teach you Kung-Fu, everything... →
openscience: “Just a few months ago, we wrote about how UC Berkeley researchers have been able to use functional MRI (fMRI) machines to extract your dreams from inside your brain. A joint American and Japanese team has since discovered that this technique works both ways: it’s possible to use an fMRI machine to generate specific patterns inside your brain that can be used to teach you new...
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
The Weeknd (28) Frank Ocean (12) Juzhin (11) The Beatles (9) Sir Simon Rattle/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/CBSO Chorus/Felicity Palmer/Ameral Gunson/John…
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“People just get things wrong. They read them wrong, or remember them wrong or...”
– What Is Good Fact-Checking? | Mother Jones (via rubenfeld) Do you suppose the result of Politifact’s blundering in the “Lie of the Year 2011” scuffle will be that people examine their sources more closely before they pass along information? Nah, that would just be too much to...
Dec 21st
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“The problem with this assumption, however, is that causes are a strange kind of...”
–  Wired, Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_causation/all/1) Ergo, gravity is a myth?
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Clams Casino (22) Phaeleh (20) BNJMN (20) Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi (16) Kendrick Lamar (16) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 19th
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Flux Session, Dec 2011 “The Baltic jazz house whizz kid Mario Basanov with an ever so dazzling session.” ~R.fm
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Neuroskeptic: "Mad Honey" Sex Is A Bad Idea →
“Mad honey” is honey made by bees from the nectar of toxic Rhododendron flowers. In places where wild Rhododendrons grow, including Turkey, it’s a health hazard. The dangers of mad honey were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and it’s reported that leaving tainted honeycombs in the path of invading armies was a popular military tactic. 2000 years later, some people...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
William Christie (22) Shlohmo (20) Arthur Rubinstein (19) Little Dragon (12) Cults (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 15th
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via decrepito)
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of...”
– Kahlil Gibran, opening of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Dec 14th
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“When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn’t do...”
– Chris Dodd, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut and current head of the MPAA lobby. To be clear he is invoking the Great Chinese Firewall as a reason SOPA is a feasible and good idea. (via ataxiwardance) F-ing brilliant, Dodd. Three cheers for idiocracy.
Dec 14th
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apoplecticskeptic: dachesterfrench: Lawrence Lessig on The Daily Show. Lessig’s critique is spot-on. I’ve been a fan for a long time. Co-signed. And he’s here on tumblr, you know… :) I didn’t know he was on tumblr, thanks for that.  Also, oh, god another book I need to read. And the pile grows….
Dec 14th
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Wikipedia threatens strike over US piracy bill →
stayingunderground: Wikipedia may temporarily blank out its pages in self-sacrifice to draw attention to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act. While the bill aims to protect copyrighted material, critics fear corporate manipulation could lead to greater censorship.
Dec 13th
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