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Fan gives advice on how to beat Djokovic at Wimbledon
A fan gives Viktor Troicki advice on his serve, which surprisingly he uses to win a point against Novak Djokovic. “Go to his backhand Viktor!” // Thx – Jason Chen
Communist party in China facing public anger as corruption gets exposed
Even more interesting considering that both this Economist article and the Bloomberg exposé are currently blocked in China. In recent years China’s leaders have become increasingly concerned that the public’s awareness of the growing wealth gap could lead to social instability. In Beijing, displays of gratuitous overcompensation are a daily reminder that some people, in …
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Art of the week – 1 in 5 teenagers will experiment with art
Marguax – surf film of professional French surfer, Margaux Arramon-Tucoo, making her own board
Shaper Studios presents a another treat by Michael Weybret. Filmed and edited: Michael Weybret Music: “Je Suis un Go-Go Girl” by The Lumiñanas
Learn more about the Affordable Care Act – the individual mandate: penalty and subsidies
If you can afford insurance but do not get it, you will be charged a fee. This is the “mandate” that people are talking about. Basically, it’s a trade-off for the “pre-existing conditions” bit, saying that since insurers now have to cover you regardless of what you have, you can’t just wait to buy insurance …
California has lost its Republicans – not one holds office in our most populous state
Fading into irrelevance The party of Nixon and Reagan holds not one statewide office in America’s most populous state California gave America two of its five most recent Republican presidents. But the state party has fallen on hard times since the days of Nixon and Reagan. After having fallen for decades, the number of registered …
How the astronauts on the International Space Station get back to our planet
This Sunday (July 1, 2012), three members of the International Space Station crew will return to Earth on board a Kazakhstan-bound Soyuz craft, after over six months in orbit. Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers, two of the returning astronauts, and Joe Acaba, who arrived at the station in May, discuss life on board ISS, the …
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Library has more than books, creates a Fab Lab with 3D printer, podcast studio, green screen
What exactly is a fab lab? “These spaces, known as Fabrication Labs (fab labs), Hackerspaces, and Tech Shops, share common goals: collaboration and ‘making.’ They exist to give their specific communities the ability to ‘make’ through sharing knowledge and skills. They provide the technology necessary to make almost anything. However, these spaces often provide services …
Real-time stats revolutionized journalism – what will they do to books?
It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour. Nearly 18,000 Kindle readers have highlighted the same line from the second book in the series: “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal …
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