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POPSHow Chuck Darwin made it from reception to the corner office Thought this was a very colorful piece and worth the quick read at the source. It was written by a long time publishing exec who provides a personal view into the evolution of an industry caught smack in the middle of a technology and media revolution. Having read a number of insightful posts recently (here on Amplify) regarding magazine industry's struggle to bridge traditional and new media, this particular story resonated with me. I wonder if any old school mag publishing execs are still the decision makers. If so, do they realize Mr. Darwin is still sitting in their corner office...
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POPSMSNBC's Schuster Calls Critics Racists.
Now where will be the call for boycotts of advertisers? The calls of racism come fast and furious now, leveled at ANYONE who exposes this administration's radical, thuggish, sneaky agenda. It is the most disgusting trend and it seems to be clearing the bar as far as general acceptance goes. I don't think there can be mounted an intelligent, nuanced enough defense against this tactic. Nearly every argument the right tries to make misses the real mark - sometimes badly. To the point of ridiculously idiotic at times, leaving themselves wide open to counterattack by the left. Like the death panels. Good God! It isn't that they are going to LITERALLY, in this decade or generation, going to decide who lives and dies, by making that fundamental clear choice, one way or the other. If you are going to make that argument you have to describe the long-term subtlety, the slippery-slope, and use examples of what they put in place 50 yrs. ago has led to things today that would have sounded outlandis
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POPSTolstoy+Twitter Multimedia books on the way. Hope they're more fun than choose-your-own-adventure novels.
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POPSIndoctination? Yep. Buy books about Lincoln or Washington... or even FDR. Teach kids history first. Wait until history determines Obama's impact.
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POPSTIME Top 10 scientific discoveries 9. Can You Spell Science? only one in four adults can read and understand the stories in the weekly science section of The New York Times. 10. First Family Researchers in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, found the oldest nuclear family ever uncovered when they excavated 4,600-year-old graves of a group of Stone-Age people who appeared to have been killed together in a raid
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POPSWoolly mammoth DNA nearly deciphered Full-sized mammoths, about 8 to 14 feet tall like elephants, became extinct about 10,000 years ago. go to source full story To obtain the DNA, scientists relied on 20 balls of mammoth hair found frozen in the Siberian permafrost. That technique - along with major improvements in genome sequencing and the still-emerging field of synthetic biology - is helping biologists envision a science-fiction future.
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POPSSCIENTISTS SHOW HALLUCINOGEN CREATES UNIVERSAL “MYSTICAL” EXPERIENCE in the 1950s, showed signs of therapeutic potential or value in research into the nature of consciousness and sensory perception. “Human consciousness…is a function of the ebb and flow of neural impulses in various regions of the brain-the very substrate that drugs such as psilocybin act upon,” Schuster says. “Understanding what mediates these effects is clearly within the realm of neuroscience and deserves investigation.” “A vast gap exists between what we know of these drugs-mostly from descriptive anthropology-and what we believe we can understand using modern clinical pharmacology techniques,” says study leader Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor with Hopkins’ departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology. “That gap is large because, as a reaction to the excesses of the 1960s, human research with hallucinogens has been basically frozen in time these last forty years.”
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POPSCreative Capitalism Blog --The market is the only tool that can solve the world's major problems--. The veracity of that statement is what the blog is discussing.
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