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Neuroscientists Take One Step Closer to Reading Your Mind | 80beats | Discover Magazine A new Academy Award: Most Twisted Brainscape.  

Times Online – Eureka Zone – WBLG: Eureka’s Top 30 Science Blogs Bloggy blog blog.

Record Labels: Change or Die Nice, big-picture overview of how the Internet has affected the music industry: > Previous business structures made sense when production, marketing and distribution of music were prohibitively expensive and difficult, and when sales were in the millions of $15 units. > Want a recording studio? Invest a few thousand dollars … Read more

Scientists discover 600 million-year-old origins of vision Ion channels rock.    

Simon Singh: This is goodbye | Science | guardian.co.uk “The crippling and prohibitive financial cost of defending a libel case is often highlighted, but the equally terrible cost in terms of time and stress is rarely mentioned.” Just dealing with a case or the threat of one, nevermind the outcome of it, is a powerful … Read more

nsf.gov – National Science Foundation (NSF) News – Methane Releases From Arctic Shelf May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated – US National Science Foundation (NSF) “Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming.”

The challenges of teling a flailing octopus of a story with a slide show Challenges to this story undertaken by Bill Dedman of msnbc.com: > “It’s a pain to write in 50-word chunks.” / But this equals a tighter story. > “You lose attribution.” > “You lose complexity.” > “You also lose paragraph marks.”

Lost Remote | Digital installation sheds light on NYC homelessness Is there any compromise in the quality of the feeling of giving when it done with such little effort? Does giving’s significance lose the depth of its mark because of the characteristics of the ritual through which it is expressed?

U.N. Tribunal to Digitize Video Recordings of Rwanda Proceedings “… redacted versions of all recordings of the trial proceedings will be generated, which can then be made available to researchers, legal professionals, broadcasters and news agencies, the people of Rwanda, and the international community at large.” About Rwanda.