If it turns out that the CERN experiment is correct, then our
scientific understanding is flawed. All sorts of strange things could
happen if the speed of light can be exceeded. Causality - the relation
between cause and effect - would be affected. Anyone traveling faster
than the speed of light would be able to see fragments of a broken
vase coming together. Faster-than-light travelers could go back in
time - say, leave New York for Paris one evening and return the
previous day.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=847884&single=1&f=28

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you are the sole example of whoever you say you are.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n18/jenny-diski/diary

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We tend to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with
which we can recall examples

http://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html?

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"My identity, once wrapped up in the righteousness of American
militarism and exceptionalism, was destroyed.  Iraq, of course, was a
shit show from the start, but Afghanistan, through a number of factors
not worth recounting here, became one several years in.  It became
obvious that the people entrusted to run our country were either
ignorant or liars."

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/09/the-illusion-of-american-exceptionalism-was-shattered.html

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If you have an idea for an app, do it now. Throw it up online. Find an
audience. Worry about quality later.

http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/silicon-valley-2011-9/

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At least at the Kentucky Derby you are supposed to get drunk.

http://www.observer.com/2011/09/celebrities-are-miserable-at-us-open-pics/

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These soldiers are the first of a new kind of creature - "autocidal"
maniacs genetically modified to wipe out their own kind without
harming other creatures.

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg21128291.700-swarm-troopers-mutant-armies-waging-war-in-the-wild.html

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For several decades, psychiatrists who work with the dying have been
trying to come up with new psychotherapies that can help people cope
with the reality of their death. One of these therapies asks the dying
to tell the story of their life.

http://m.npr.org/story/140336146?url=/2011/09/09/140336146/for-the-dying-a-chance-to-rewrite-life

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There are currently more than 40,000 troops in Iraq, who in August
enjoyed their first month without a man or woman killed in action
since 2003.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0907/Yes-the-Iraq-drawdown-is-really-happening

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Shock Doctrine suggests that in the aftermath of a calamity, there is
always corporate method in the smoldering madness - a method based in
Disaster Capitalism.

http://mobile.salon.com/politics/feature/2011/09/06/shockreform/index.html

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What percentage of people who have ever lived are alive today?

http://1000memories.com/blog/75-number-of-people-who-have-ever-lived

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How will you or I be remembered by our friends and family? For a
select number of famous people, they might be commemorated in a Time
article or a Wikipedia entry. But the majority of people will not have
that recognition.

http://greylockvc.com/2011/02/16/memorials-in-the-digital-age/

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There was a time long ago when women in particular had no choice but
to marry and have children. We're beyond that point now. The
overwhelming majority of people do want to have children because they
do want to nurture a young person and project themselves into the next
generation. I think an even larger number of people want to have a
partner. Maybe they don't when they're in college or just after
college, but as they get older, most people tend to want to have an
ongoing, intimate relationship with someone. In every civilization we
know of, there has been a relationship that was something like
marriage, so I get a bit impatient when people talk about marriage as
though this is a social construction that is oppressing people and we
should just cast it off -- because the issue is not formal marriage,
the issue is that people want a partner.

http://mobile.salon.com/mwt/feature/2011/09/04/marriage_and_race_interview/index.html

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So when a woman I'll call Gwen, a mom acquaintance at our preschool,
invited my children and me to go to the aquarium with her and her 3-
and 5-year-old, I politely declined. After all, a children's aquarium
sounded like a destination swarming with, well, children. Children who
operated outside our preschool's regime of enforced kindness and would
likely be modeling behaviors that would take years for me to
extinguish once my children were exposed to them, behaviors like
chewing tobacco and throwing Ninja stars.
http://mobile.salon.com/mwt/feature/2011/08/31/hell_is_other_peoples_children/index.html

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