Just another reminder to check out the Royal Society’s Tomorrow’s Giants forum. The discussions taking place here will help shape the debate for the conference itself, which takes place on 1 July this year
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Reminder: Tomorrow’s Giants From The Royal Society – Pre-conference discussion forum
This year at CES the big story was 3D. Every meeting, every speech, and every party was, at some point, interrupted by some executive or PR person telling us to put on our glasses. Sony famously brought out Taylor Swift, and then asked you to watch Taylor Swift perform live in 3D on video screens…
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Poll Technica: are you getting your wallet out for 3D?
I wanted to share with you a fun site that I found last night for those of you frugal moms. The site is called Frugal Map . This is a place where you can search for other frugal bloggers near you or by stores that they cover
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The Frugal Map
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Coldwell Banker . All opinions are 100% mine. When I bought my house in 2006, I don’t even think I even thought about any type of first time buyers savings that might have been available.
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Tax Credit Expanded For First Time Home Buyers
There’s a lot of discussion regarding Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission (link to SCOTUS decision ), discussion by people are alternately smart, ideologically-blinded by rage, bewitched, bothered, and bemildred. So, just two quick observations based on a quick read of the decision itself (all 183 pages), a good summary on the Wall Street Journal site, Court Rolls Back Campaign Spending Limits – WSJ.com , and some other sources.
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More on SCOTUS decision regarding campaign finance laws
There’s never been a better time to be a writer — there’s no ceiling on your income, and your opportunities are amazing. Many of those opportunities require a foundation of knowledge of how the web works. Therefore in next week’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, we discuss creating money-magnet websites
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Writing Ezine: How to Create a Money-Magnet Website
This week, we celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. The President and his Administration held an intergenerational conversation to mark the occasion, inviting to the White House both elders who participated in the Civil Rights Movement, and young Americans who benefited from their work
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President Holds Intergenerational Conversation on MLK Day
I am still trying to turn myself into a runner – there’s talk of a 10K in April, and today I managed to run for the longest ever outside, 40 minutes. I covered 3.5m which I know isn’t exactly a marathon, but I felt chuffed.
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Photo of the Day 22: best place to run
Everyone say a silent little “thank you” to Manfriend. For Christmas, he enrolled me in a weekend-long cooking course! While you can’t all come with me, you WILL reap the benefits of my soon-to-be genius culinary knowledge. I walk past this place nearly every day and stare longingly into the demonstrations and classes like a little kid stares at the toy store windows at Christmas. This weekend I get to run through the aisles of Toys-R-Us and touch EVERYTHING.
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i am a warrior.
Let me start this post by saying I’m a madeleine snob. A bona fide, unrepentant madeleine snob. Don’t talk to me about those nasty little packets of “madeleine” by the cash register at your Starbucks. They’re awful, with texture seemingly composed, somehow, of paraffin. Those buckets of shell-shaped stuff masquerading as madeleines at Costco are not much better. They taste as though they’re made of Twinkies – oddly spongy, overtly sweet and redolent of fake vanilla. I don’t know what those pretenders are exactly, but I assure you they are *not* madeleines.
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Bergamot Madeleines
Today I want to warn you about a serious blight on our industry. Many of you out there are serious writers and have been for a long time, and I respect that. I certainly have quite a few years of work under my belt, and I didn’t get to this point without my share of knocks.
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Breaking News: Criticism Destroys Writing
Here is a great video showing all of the different types of torches that are available for making jewelry. I teach my classes using a small torch that fills on butane similar to the one that is great for beginners. This type of torch is available at Bella Beads in Marquette, Michigan where I teach Silversmithing classes. You can see what classes are being offered on their website. www.shopbellabeads.com
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Jewelry Making: Choosing your torch.
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Everything Matches
William Shakespeare is the shorthand we use when we want to describe a great writer. He stands for the pinnacle of writing ability. One reason is that he mastered the art of writing for completely different audiences
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How to Blog like Shakespeare: Writing for Three Audiences at the Same Time
In my book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, I describe how this humble germ helped make modern biology possible–and, in the process, has been engineered to do all sorts of remarkable things. In 2008, I blogged a fresh example, courtesy of Jeff Hasty and his colleagues
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Is There Nothing E. coli Cannot Do? The Borg Edition | The Loom
When I was teaching cooking camp last summer, I explained to the kids that although they didn’t need to actually enjoy all of the food we made, they weren’t allowed to talk smack about it. You know how kids are – they are easily swayed by other people’s opinions. And I didn’t want one naysayer
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Don’t Yuck My Yum
When I started working last month on a news feature about gaps in climate science I was expecting a tough reporting job. Too fresh, so I thought, were the scars the field and many leading scientists had received from the hacking affair at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Norwich to readily discuss with a reporter the ‘dirty laundry’ (my phrase) of climate science
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The real holes in climate science
Does article marketing for MLM work? It sure does and is one of the best ways to generate leads for your business that will cost you our favorite 4 letter word, f-r-e-e!
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Article Marketing For MLM – Does It Work and What Is The Proper Way?
#63, I-290, Worcester, MA Weekly hours of bottleneck congestion : 20 Worst bottleneck : Westbound, Hwy 9/Exit 17 Length of worst bottleneck : .37 mi Weekly hours of congestion on worst bottleneck : 9 Speed of worst bottleneck when congested : 23 mph Commuter Buzz : “The MAJOR problem with these Highways is not the roads themselves but the JERKS who drive on it,” one driver posted under an article on the Worcester Telegram & Gazette website about the need for physical improvements on the I-290. “Weaving in and out, riding your butt even if you’re going 80, 85 mph.” America’s 75 Worst Commutes – The Daily Beast C’mon, folks. Our local commute is less worse than Providence’s
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We’re Number 63
CHA – Craft Supershow Friday – January 22nd Noon – 3:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take 4:00 – 4:45 Craft Star Station The Trend of Messaging Chalkboard Paint Altering Cork Boards Q&A 5:00 – 8:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take
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Friday’s Activities at CHA