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http://www.michaelshermer.com/2008/01/weird-thi...
Would you rather earn $50,000 a year while other people make $25,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 a year while other people get $250,000? Assume for the moment that prices of goods and services will stay the same.
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else. But you don’t lose inches and pounds overnight. It’s the result of rethinking conventions. Of multiple wireless innovations. And of breakthrough design. With MacBook Air, mobile computing suddenly has a new standard.
http://newhumanist.org.uk/newsletter/
So Charles Darwin has risen from the dead, and the first thing he does (perhaps after a nice warm shower) is sit down to dinner with four scientific experts to discuss how his theory has evolved while he's been having the big sleep. His guests are geneticist Steve Jones, historian John van Wyhe, biologist Jerry Coyne and Guardian science correspondent James Randerson. What would they ask him, what would they tell him, and what would they bring him?
