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Arizona’s Joe Arpaio is back in the news—this time, he’s sending armed ‘posses’ to protect Phoenix school kids. Terry Greene Sterling on why the sheriff’s plan is truly terrifying.
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Declaring himself to be “a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel,” Glenn Beck announced on Tuesday that he’ll re-launch The Blaze as an international libertarian news network. The revamp includes opening three bureaus in foreign cities that are “important to America,” starting a new nightly news magazine show, and relocating his New York staff, currently based in Midtown, to a building that will “send a very clear message to everyone in New York … it will piss everyone off.” Let us guess, the New York Public Library’s Rose Main Reading Room?
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Entertainment content could get boost from loosened restrictions
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CES 2013: Ultraviolet & Cloud-based Content
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President Obama will host the cast and crew of NBC’s 1600 Penn for a private screening at the White House on Wednesday. Suddenly we’re no longer positive Barack read Matt Zoller-Seitz’s review, featuring the heavy-hearted proclaimation, “Ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t laugh once. And as anybody who’s ever read me knows, when it comes to dumb humor, I’m a cheap date.” The show stars Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, and Josh Gad, all of whose feelings will be hurt if the President doesn’t at least throw out some courtesy chuckles.
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An only male (and gay) grandchild denied heirlooms thinks the traditional distribution of family treasures is unfair.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/booming/should-gay-grandson-get-some-of-the-china.html
A self-driving car. A device that tells you you’re eating too fast. Space-age innovations from the Consumer Electronics Show.
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What outcome do the striking journalists want?
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The International Prototype of the Kilogram in three nested bell jars
(Photo: BIPM)
Did you gain a bit of weight after the holidays? Take heart, you’re not
the only one – even the kilogram itself has put on weight:
Using a state-of-the-art Theta-probe XPS machine — the only one of
its kind in the world — the team have shown the original kilogram is
likely to be tens of micrograms heavier than it was when the first standard
was set in 1875. […]The original kilogram — known as the International Prototype Kilogram
or the IPK — is the standard against which all other measurements of
mass are set. Stored in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures
in Paris, forty official replicas of the IPK were made in 1884 and distributed
around the world in order to standardise mass. The UK holds replica
18 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).But despite efforts to protect the IPK and its duplicates, industrialisation
and modern living have taken their toll on the platinum-based weights
and contaminants have built up on the surface.
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Gold, Golden, Gilded, Glittering – The Unexpected Double History Of Banking And The Art World
In fact, we have long entrusted the task of representing our ideas of value to members of two professions that might seem to have little in common: banking and art. And, in the last seven hundred years or so, it has happened more than once that visual and financial inventors have come up with strikingly similar representations. There is more than a shadow of resemblance between the purchase of the Hirst skull in 2007 and the mortgage-backed-securities debacle that made of Lehman Brothers in the following year one of the great public pictures of vanitas we’ve had. And, when you look further into these intersections, you often find that what is really at stake is a change in the way we feel and understand time.
Steven Cohen, owner of Damien Hirst’s (previously) famous The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living, is under investigation for insider trading.
How Larry Gagosian Is Like Goldman Sachs: short answer, by representing both buyer and seller.
Slate: Why The Art World Is So Loathsome
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