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If you know that CMS means The Chicago Manual of Style, you didn't need that exclamation point. If you don't, a hundred of 'em wouldn't make the news exciting.
Wes Phillips
25 Signs That, Sadly, You've Grown Up
Sad, but oh so true.
The Inner Life of the Cell
"Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D space. 'All of those things that you see in the animation are going on in every one of your cells in your body all the time,' says XVIVO lead animator John Liebler, who worked with company partners David Bolinsky, XVIVO’s medical director, and Mike Astrachan, the project’s production director, to blend the academic data and narrative from Harvard’s faculty into a fluid visual interpretation."
British Library on DRM and the Law
"DRM is a technical device, but it's being used in an all-embracing sense. It can't be circumvented for disabled access or preservation, and the technology doesn't expire (as traditional copyright does). In effect, it's overriding exceptions to copyright law,"said Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library.
Music Has a Future
Richard Dyer's valedictory column for The Boston Globe is surprisingly upbeat.
Mirror, Mirror
In the new study of brain activity, volunteers silently read phrases describing movements involving one of three body parts. All of the phrases activated movement-related regions in the left frontal cortex—presumably the ones responsible for moving the body part in question.
Einstein and the Old One
Mark Mortimer's review of Einstein and the Old One makes an interesting point—just because we "know" stuff our ancestors didn't doesn't actually make us smarter. We "know" without comprehending.
When Private Locks Shackle Public Works
Bill Thompson explains how DRM supersedes copyright law and chills creativity.
Ten Years After
Ten years ago, John Horgan wrote The End of Science, arguing that scientists had already solved most of the big mysteries of the universe, Has a decade of scientific progress tempered that belief?
Frisell, Harris, DeJohnette, Surman
This just in: Jerome Harris dropped me a line announcing a concert tour with Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, and Ben Surman. Unfortunately, it won't be playing anywhere I can go see them, but if you're lucky, you can catch one of these dates.