jlam
147 Karma Points
muckraker, photographer, inline skater, software developer …a complex character in a world demanding simplicity
Rochester NY
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Can Stretching Before Exercise Really be Bad for You? | New York Times view story
14 votes- Submitted by all_things_pop_culture
- 15 days ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02...)
Forget everything you know about warming up. This is how it should be done.
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Sprint Nextel Swings to a Loss as Subscribers Defect view story
4 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 10 days ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08...)
The company lost another 1.3 million wireless subscribers during the third quarter, leading to a loss that sent its stock skidding.
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Obama, Assembling Team, Turns to the Economy view story
3 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 10 days ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07...)
Markets, leaders and the Bush administration are looking for signs of how Barack Obama will manage the crisis.
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Sticky Tape Generates X-Rays view story
5 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 25 days ago
- (http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0...)
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that simply peeling ordinary sticky tape in a vacuum can generate enough X-rays to take an image — of one of the scientists' own fingers
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The Women of Burning Man -- scantily clad, ready to party and usually wearing dust masks view photo
2 votes- Submitted by tunedog
- 2 months ago
- (http://www.wesay.com/Top_Photos/F...)
You can see more pictures of women and the art from my trip to Burning Man at www.wesay.com
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Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 1 month ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23...)
Sweden was so far in the hole in 1992 that its banking system was insolvent. It took a different course than the one now being proposed by the US Treasury. Swedish officials say there are lessons from their own nightmare that Washington may be missing.
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Somali Pirates Tell All: They're in It for the Money view story
4 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 1 month ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01...)
The pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter had no idea that the ship was carrying arms, they said.
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Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master? view story
9 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 2 months ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26...)
Vernor Vinge has been urging his fellow humans to get smarter by collaborating with computers.
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Tapping Into What a Deer Sees, and Doesn't view story
9 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 1 month ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23...)
A new computer-generated camouflage is being promoted as the first camouflage scientifically designed to make hunters invisible to deer.
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New Process Eliminates a Fertilizer's Blast Threat view story
7 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 1 month ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23...)
A major chemical company has found a way to render nitrogen fertilizer useless as an explosive, and improve its value to some crops.

