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OMG I'm totally one of the 2-4% that fainted when saw blood.. Super cool two episodes from RadioLab:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-live-telltale-hearts-featuring-oliver-sacks/

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Another excellent episode from RadioLab

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Very interesting read

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Today's podcasts recommendations:

Three shocking radiolab episodes: Bringing gamma back https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2&i=1000378732771 presents: invisibilia https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2&i=1000333490347 Update: CRISPR https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2&i=1000381875098 And one electronics blog for real geeks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/macrofab-engineering-podcast/id1083726214?mt=2&i=1000383391741

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The importance of clear communications

Two men met at the site where the supervisor asked the employee a question. The supervisor remembered the question as "Is there a problem here?" The employee thought the question was "Have you solved the problem?" Both agreed that the answer was "no." One walked away believing that the problem was solved. The other believed that he had informed his bosses that there was a problem. The issue was never resolved.

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I didn’t know until that day, that this questionable comma before the ‘and’ in a list of items is called an oxford comma, and that there’s a debate about using it. Very interesting! 

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Interesting to read a more thorough review of the subject but that's a good start from the washington post

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Interesting read. New concept or new methodology?

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Very interesting opinion

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the only reason I have to be this loud is because you have to scream to be heard in my family

amy

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The difference between theory and practice is always greater in practice than it is in theory..

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Tim Howard heads to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey for the story of a WWII hero whose feats of navigation saved hundreds of lives. The hero? A pigeon named G.I. Joe. Museum Curator Mindy Rosewitz fills in the details. Professor Charles Walcott  helps Tim delve into the mysteries of how pigeons pull off these seemingly impossible journeys--flying home across hundreds of miles of unfamiliar terrain. Then, Dr. Lera Boroditsky tells us about a language in Australia in which a pigeon-like ability to orient yourself is so crucial...you can't even say hello without knowing exactly which direction you're facing. And finally, Jad ...

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Didn't make it onto the yearly roll call of the mega-wealthy? Why not find out where you'd actually sit in comparison to the rest of the world? You might be surprised.

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I stared in disbelief the first time a straw rose up from my can of soda and hung out over the table, barely arrested by burrs in the underside of the metal opening. I was holding a slice of pizza in one hand, folded in a three-finger grip so that it wouldn’t flop and pour cheese-grease on the paper plate, and a paperback in a similar grip in the other hand—what was I supposed to do? The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.

The Mezzanine, Nickolson Baker

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China is no longer a slam dunk for manufacturers looking for the lowest cost for operations. In fact, a new study by the consulting firm AlixPartners estimates by 2016 the cost of