Which is not to say that musicians should reflexively adhere to the
static desires of their fan base, because that's bad, too; on a
personal level, I'm glad Metallica and Reed⁠2⁠ tried this, if only
because I'm always a fan of bad ideas.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7146312/lou-reed-metallica-album

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The Hunter from 1959 and 1960 was this long, lean, athletic, handsome man, who used to type The Great Gatsby over and over to see what it felt like to write a masterpiece. 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/23/johnny-depp-on-hunter-s-thompson.html

"You know, the Clovis-first model has been dying for some time," he
finished. "But there's nothing harder to change than a paradigm, than
long-standing thinking. When Clovis-First was first proposed, it was a
very elegant model but it's time to move on, and most of the
archaeological community is doing just that."

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15391388&wsi=68a4ecb312c046ce&ei=tVulTtj7NZPwwwXg7uS-BA&wsc=yq

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In biology, we got stuck with a particular coding system that
precluded anything else from moving in. It's the same in the world of
code: It is constrained by the original protocols but beyond that it
is very open. And the evolution of computer code is now moving much
faster than the evolution of biological code.

http://theeuropean-magazine.com/352-dyson-george/353-evolution-and-innovation

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Consumer spending (70 percent of the economy) is flat or dropping
because consumers are losing their jobs and wages, and don't have the
dough. And businesses aren't hiring because they don't have enough
customers.

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/19/austerity_isnt_the_answer/singleton/?mobile.html

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We'd just returned from China, where everything about Internet use in
general and Google services in particular is insecure and fraught.

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/8673/?single_page=true

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Years ago, when I was a graduate student in physics, I was introduced
to the concept of the "well-posed problem": a question that can be
stated with enough clarity and precision that it is guaranteed an
answer. Scientists are always working on well-posed problems.

http://life.salon.com/2011/10/02/how_science_and_faith_coexist/singleton/?mobile.html

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No matter who we are, how alternative or preppy we seem, we're all
drawing from something bigger than ourselves. No one, it seems, is
quite unique.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/06/exactitudes_a_photographic_argument_against_uniqueness.html

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They've created a debt machine that charges interest to lend Americans
the cash they haven't gotten in raises since wages stagnated in the
1970s, after the Democrats abandoned economic populism.

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/05/unions_democrats_occupy_wall_street/singleton/?mobile.html

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The Tea Party, too, started in incoherence and blind rage,
disconnected from other conservative activism, and featuring an
unappealing, self-indulgent cast of characters who, like the young
activists on Wall Street, represented only a tiny faction of the
people they claimed to speak for.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/95753/occupy-wall-street-left-tea-party-dionne

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I've always found it interesting how much the right and left sides of
people's faces can differ.

http://www.rightreading.com/leftface-rightface/leftface-rightface1.htm

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