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November 13
World Bank public data, now in search

When we first launched public data on Google.com, we wanted to make statistics easier to find and to encourage debate based on facts rather than intuition. The day after we launched, a friend who…
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November 9
The Girl Who Silenced The World For 6 Minutes

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This was more than 17 years ago, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Summit, Earth Summit (or, in Portuguese, Eco ‘92), a…
November 8
Obsessives: Soda Pop – CHOW.com

I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.chow.com To order soda: http://www.sodapopstop.com/ John Nese is the proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store,…
November 5
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) humbles Hudson Institute dilettante over health care bankruptcies

I favorited a YouTube video: Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) humbles Hudson Institute dilettante over health care bankruptcies This during a senate Judiciary sub-committee hearing on bankruptcies…
November 1

RT @tiago_custodio: “Faleceu o radialista António Sérgio, o «John Peel» português - TSF” ( http://bit.ly/1mW1eQ )

October 28
Dunbar's Number isn't just a number, it's the law

Dunbar’s number is 150.

And he’s not compromising, no matter how much you whine about it.

Dunbar postulated that the typical human being can only have 150 friends. One hundred fifty people in the…
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Google drops Android 2.0 SDK

One day after we called out Google for holding onto the Android 2.0 SDK, it magically appeared on their website. Developers can now grab the new SDK from the official Android site.

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