The Pragmatic Idealist

"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future." - Fulton Oursler We Can't Trust Uber   Climate Fiction and Fantasy   Apple and IBM Introduce First in Line of Mobile Apps for Business   Will Lyft's new Destination Give it the Airbnb Advantage?   What is the Best James Bond Movie of all Time?

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things." - Niccolo Machiavelli Congress Saves Social Security from the Nazis   Labor Intensive Energy Savings   Are Gadget-Free Bedrooms the Secret to a Happy Relationship?   Sapiosexual Seeks Same

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein The Slippery Slope of Silicon Valley   Modern Civility, Retail Division   What is a True Facebook Threat?   Hitting Rewind on Apple's Past   To Gain the Upper Hand, Amazon Disrupts Itself

"Truth that's told with bad intent / Beats all the lies you can invent." - William Blake First Ever Footage of a Deep Sea Angler Fish   Virtual Worlds Invite Visitors into the Story   To Delete or Not to Delete   Assassin's Creed Meets the French Revolution and the Left Rebels Again

"The church is close, but the road is icy.  The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully." -  Russian Proverb   Google Signs $1.16 Billion Lease for Moffett Field   Uber Backpedals on Investigating Journalists   A Time for Revisiting Real Fears   "Interstellar" - the Cinema of Physics   Cool Concept: Jevon's Paradox

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out."   - Chinese Proverb Politicians, Teens and Birth Control   Excellent New Bond Villain   Obama Calls ISIS Beheading "Act of Pure Evil"   A Plumbing Problem for the Internet

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Samuel Butler  Death by Typo   China Turns up the Rhetoric Against the West   Amazon and Hatchette Bury the Hatchet   How Alibaba is Using Bra Sizes to Predict Online Spending Habits   And a picture of Kim Kardashian's ass, cause why not:

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” -  William O. Douglas   The Wrong Question to Ask About Same Sex Marriage   The Triumph of the Wrong   Soviet Era Engine is Blamed for Antares Rocket Explosion   Recreating Adam, After the Fall   Republicans are Only Sometimes the Party of Uber   Wearing your Failures on your Sleeve

"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." - Plato   The Tornado Election   The 2016 Race is On   Verizon Wireless Under Fire for its Ad Targeting Program   Facebook has its own Get Out the Vote Message

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." - Dr. Joyce Brothers In Reversal, Maine Judge Lifts Ebola Quarantine on Nurse   The Beautiful Agony of the Kansas City Royals' World Series Run   Putin's Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks   Virgin Galactic Space Ship Two Crashes

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of their folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer With Cash and Pressure, China Builds its Chip Industry   CDC Ebola Guidelines Not Good Enough for Some States   Solar Power to Rival Fossil Fuel in Cost by 2016   The World's Largest Hot Air Balloon Festival is Breathtakingly Epic

"The only thing safe is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows what you are hoping when you embark." - Mike Nichols Perpetual Peace - Are Democracies Less Warlike?   Seeking Unity, U.S. Revises Ebola Monitoring Rules   The Dangers of Quarantines   Directing Planes by Remote Control

"Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder" - Nikita Khruschev Advanced 7 Minute Workout   Officials Tracing New York Ebola Patient's Movements   Royals/Giants Preview (A Bit Late)   Chocolate Shown to Aid Memory   Dyson's Amazing Catch

"In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead." - Benjamin Franklin The Cost of Campaigns   Paralyzed Man Walks Again After Cell Transplant   25 Years Ago, NASA Envisioned its own Orient Express   Center to Develop Second Generation of Surgical Robots

ALDS Game 3: Cain Back to Back Catches ALCS Game 1: Gordon's Go Ahead Home Run ALCS Game 2: Cain's Great Catch ALCS Game 3: Moustakas Catch Falling into Dugout ALCS Game 4: Royals' Great Defense Clinch, Celebration

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." - Louis D. Brandeis Swedish Navy Searches for Source of Underwater Signals   For South Korea, Host of League of Legends Championship, E-Sports are a National Pastime   To Give and to Receive - A Dominant Catchers' World Series   The Survivor's Guide to Beating the Kansas City Royals' Ultimate Outfield   When Uber and AirBnB meet the Real World

"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby   Denny Matthews Radio Call as Royals Clinch ALCS The World Series Bound Royals have Transformed KC's Sports Identity The Greatest Defensive Outfield in History Why the Kansas City Royals are Irresistible Experts Oppose Ebola Travel Ban

Rany - Halfway to Eden (From 10/12) Google Using Street View Camel Uber Flunks Better Business Bureau Test Royals Fan Paul Rudd Invites Everyone to his Mom's House With New Ebola Case Confirmed, New Failures Emerge

"Your strength as a rationalist it to be more confused by fiction than reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge." - Eliezer Yudkowski These Royals are Eager to Include Their Fans in the Celebration Must See Cain Catches Royals Advance to ALCS ALCS Spot The Great Wage Slowdown of the 21st Century

"The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts." - Roopleen   HP is Said to be Planning a Split of its Businesses Royals Sweep Their Way to ALCS Date with O's In Sweep, Royals Show they are more than Just Speed Technology Takes the Wheel Court Hands Gay Marriage a Tacit Victory

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams KC Masterpiece More Rany Warning Renews Zeal of Protesters in Hong Kong The Exceptions Rule in October, for the Most Part Tesla's "Something Else" is Reportedly Automated Driving

"There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens." - Tommy Lasorda Lamborghini Asterion - 910hp Hybrid 270 MPH Sikorsky Raider is the Batmobile of the Skies Brandon Finnegan may Change Royals' Fortunes Delay in Dallas Ebola Cleanup as Workers Balk at Task Hong Kong Leader Offers Talks

"My father [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] gave me these hints on speech making: be sincere . . . be brief . . . be seated." - James Roosevelt   God, Darwin and my College Biology Class Police Unleash Tear Gas in Hong Kong Protests FCC Chairman Ponders Net Neutrality The Great Firewall Gets Bigger

"The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo   Wall St. Bankrolls Ex-Executive as he Sues over AIG Bailout Europe's Antisemitism Comes out of the Shadows Anomalous Events that can Shake One's Skepticism to the Core Some iPhone 6 Plus Users find an Unwanted Feature: It Bends #Gamergate Controversy Fuels Debate on Women and Video Games

"Always be a little kinder than necessary" - Sir James Matthew Barrie U.S. Aims to Curb Peril of Antibiotic Resistance Why is Our Sci-Fi so Glum about A.I.? China Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Companies Like Google Best not to Sweat the Small Stuff -- Because it can Kill you From Pole to Pulpit, a Club and a Church do Battle

"You are not entitled to your opinion.  You are entitled to your informed opinion.  No one is entitled to be ignorant." - Harlan Ellison   Restaurant Flips off Yelp in the Funniest Way Possible Chinese Tourists Find a Moveable Feast Best left Behind Art Made from Single Celled Organisms Under a Microscope The Paleo Lifestyle: the Way, Way, Way Back The Berlin Wall Comes Down, Again

"One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything." - William of Occam   Lessons from the Past in the Future of Smart Cars Professor's Angry Tweets on Gaza Cost him his Job Smartphones: the Corporate Personality Test Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind Poor Color Choice for Cycling Outfits

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”  - Voltaire World's Thinnest Tablet, With Amazing Camera Success of Apple's Watch may Depend on Healthcare Partnerships In a Study, Text Messages Add up to a Sum of Everyday Morality Training Dogs to Sniff Out Cancer

"The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible." - George Bernard Shaw Two Cities With Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App   72 Year Old Pamplin Challenges Lewis and Clark Students   Watch Clarkson be a Perv then Race a Hurdler in a Nissan GT-R   Gorgeous Deep Sea Footage of an Unusually Large Dumbo Octopus

"One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it" - French Proverb Tech, Meet Fashion In E-Sports, Video Gamers Draw Real Crowds and Big Money Argentine Dinosaur was Estimated 130,000 Pounds and Still Growing US Confirms Al Shabab Leader Killed The Girl with Three Biological Parents

"Never mistake motion for action." -Ernest Hemingway Loyal to the Royals, Hoping for a Renaissance Google's Anti-Aging Company Opens a New Facility Star Still has Astronomers' Heads Exploding

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise." - John Henry Newman A call for a Low-Carb Diet  An unqualified win for low carb over low fat. If Two New Yorkers Shared a Cab . . . Drone Developers Consider Problems That Cannot be Flown Around Questions for IBM's Watson   Jennifer Lawrence Naked Photos Leaked After iCloud Hack At some point, this is going to have a real effect on cloud services.

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." - Gail Sheehy   What Wellesley Learned After it Stopped Giving out so Many A's Don't Want me to Recline? Pay me not to  This guy has an interesting point.  I disagree with several of his premises much of his reasoning, but it's a good conversation. Looking to the Future of Data Science Uber's Secret Agents: When Poaching Becomes Unethical

"Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories." - Polybius   A New Era When Cars Talk to Each Other France Acknowledges Economic Malaise, Blaming Austerity What a Difference a Day Makes

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov Mother Cat Adopting Baby Bunny is Basically an IRL Disney Movie In the Sharing Economy, Workers find both Opportunity and Insecurity Web Trolls May be Winning as Incivility Increases The Rise of 3D Printed Guns   New to the Archaeologist's tool kit: the Drone Kidneys for Sale

"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is." - Blaise Pascal   Advisor to Chinese Government on Qualcomm is Dismissed Michael J. Fox Foundation Turns to Tech   Intel Agrees to Buy Avago's Networking Business for $650 Million First Female Winner for Maths Medal

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own" - Benjamin Disraeli   When a Car Loan Means Bankruptcy Lyft Hopes to Coax Commuters Away from Their Cars Untangling the Mystery of Spider Silk Intel's Broadwell Chips Will Make Full Fledged PCs as Tiny as Tablets

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in government, is to live under a government of worse men." - Plato   Capitalizing on U.S. Airstrikes, Kurds Retake Iraqi Towns A Death Highlights Racing's History of Confrontations   What we Don't Know About Tony Stewart and Last Night's Crash China's Energetic Enforcement of Antitrust Rules Alarms Foreign Firms Awesome Windowless Jet

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously" - Hubert H. Humphrey   Are you, like, African-AMERICAN or AFRICAN-American? Sexism, only this time about men   Searchers Closer than Ever to WWII Sub off Oregon Stranger than fiction. Iraq Airstrikes May Continue for Months, Obama Says

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge US Jets and Drones Attack Militants in Iraq A Two Step Plan to Stop Hackers   Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon CrossFit Flirting - Talk Burpee to Me

"It takes less time to do the right thing than it does to explain why you did it wrong." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Bergdahl Details Disappearance to General Leading Inquiry Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take on Amazon Aiming to be the Netflix of Ebooks What Happens When Two Women Drive Around in a Ferrari Fascinating!

"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw Rosetta Spacecraft Set for Close Study of Comet This Stealth Gray and Orange Bespoke Mclaren P1 is a Symphony of Evil The Crossfit Case for Equal Pay Extracting Audio from Visual Information

"Character is much easier kept than recovered" -  Thomas Paine Never Speed in Virginia - Lessons from my Three Days in Jail  Holy crap! Man - words of wisdom here.  I had no idea. U.S. Starts Civil Inquiry on Subprime Car Lending Maybe we are learning a little something. Maybe. A little. You Won't Meet the Beatles in Space

"This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him" - William Lyon Phelps Sympathy for the Devil Summer Job? Time to Start a Roth IRA How to tell someone's age when all you know is her name You don't need dreams when you sleep in this bedroom

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway    American Doctor with Ebola Arrives in US for Treatment Where Tech is Taking us: a Conversation with Intel's Genevieve Bell Reanimating Bertha, a Mechanical Behemoth Slumbering Under Seattle NASA Validates 'Impossible' Space Drive The Ten Most Unbelievable Airplane Junkyards in the World

"There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want, and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." - Logan Pearsall Smith   Vintage Blockbusters Reshuffle Race The C.I.A.'s Reckless Breach of Trust St. Johns Concours Celebrates Virgil Exner Great Airshow Pics Setting a Fedora Hat on Fire is Apparently One of the Steps to Make it

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire Audi's Semiautonomous A7 Broke Down with Florida's Governor on Board Out of Wreckage, Lives Emerge   "Quantum Chesire Cat" Observed Rustle, Tingle, Relax: The Compelling World of A.S.M.R.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle US, Europe to Sharply Increase Russia Sanctions Those will leave a mark. I agree, though. Can't let them just invade outright without objection. $50 Billion Awarded in Breakup of Yukos Fascinating story. I wonder how you collect a judgment against a sovereign? Looking for Love on the Web, as it Experiments with you Not surprising. When you think about it, the whole damn internet is really an experiment . . . With Microsoft in Sights, China Starts to Squeeze US Tech Companies Yikes.

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." -  Jawaharlal Nehru   Hold the Phone: A Big Data Conundrum Fascinating. Conspiracy? Or just convenient coincidence for Apple? In Ferry Deaths, a South Korean Tycoon's Downfall Wow. Bizarre. The South Korean system is really screwed up. Surprisingly, iPad's Loss is not Samsung's Gain In Search for Killer, DNA Sweep Exposes Intimate Family Secrets in Italy Mobile App Sheds New Light on Risk Taking Behaviour

"One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is supply light and not heat."   - Woodrow Wilson Is NPR Biased in its Gaza Coverage? Is Moore's Law Still Relevant to the Tech Industry This is really interesting.  The main point is that Moore's Law created a periodicity and business cycle that is now not so present.  What the article misses is that Moore's law and that cycle still apply at the cloud service provider level - that is, all that compute power in the cloud still comes from the same place. Nine Things we Learned from the GOT Comic-Con Panel 21 Books that Changed SF and Fantasy Forever Close Encounters of the Radio Kind

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin  Mapping the Spread of the Drought E.C.B. Says it was Hacked in Apparent Blackmail Attempt Crash Victims to Undergo Routine Tests, Experts Say First Drive Review: Porsche Cayman GTS

"A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." - The Talmud   Jet Wreckage Shows Signs of Impact by Supersonic Missile In case there was any doubt. What the Internet can see from your Cat Pictures Good explanation of the methodologies behind figuring this stuff out. Three Person IVF Plans "Progress" in UK Not really sure what to think here. On the one hand, it seems like a good idea. On the other hand, it has a pretty high unintended consequences coefficient.

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe  Sometimes, Early Birds are too Early Important points here.  I have seen this kind of thing happen. I've also seen a related issue, where people think "faster is better" and kill themselves trying to get something done, thereby making everyone around them uncomfortable and even resentful. Early Risers are Less Moral at Night Another good reason to be a night person! Watch this guy haul off one of MH17's black boxes This story just keeps going farther down the rabbit hole. And just to feel good:

"There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose." - Garth Stein Technology's Rainbow Connection Avoiding Roommate Shock, Online Faith Based Fanatics The German Officer Who Tried to Kill Hitler

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon  Obama Points to Rebels in Downing of Jet It doesn't seem at all likely that it was anyone other than the rebels. It will be interesting to see how much this changes the international dynamic on the conflict. A Lesson in How Not to Run a Company Um. Wow.  You should also read the embedded reference piece .  Holy moly. Can't believe he got away with that for 10 years . . . Tech World's Challenge: Staying New This is very insightful and clear.  Worth coming back to from time to time, I think. Picture Everyone Naked I heard an interview with Lockwood a couple of weeks ago.  Really cool and likable person.

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Winston Churchill  Malaysia Airlines Jet Crashes in Ukraine This is horrible. It's likely to really change the game on the conflict in Ukraine. Presumably Russia provided the air to air missile that was used. Bad stuff. Some Universities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science Interesting.  I think the productivity and creative environment in tech will get a lot better as the diversity and gender mix gets more balanced. The Future Sure Looks Better from the Past Intel Reports a Strong Quarter :-)

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."  - George Eliot How Coffee Fueled the Civil War Fascinating.  I had no idea . . . Real-Life Illness in a Virtual World Per our discussion the other day re: Oculus Rift. I wonder to what degree this can be solved with better and better processing speed and fidelity. A Two-Page Form Spawns a Contraceptive Showdown Grrr. Demo Flights for Airliners Oh. Emm. Gee.  Really does put people's nervousness over turbulence into some perspective . . . The USAF's Deadliest Viper Pilot Pretty damn interesting.

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." - William G. McAdoo Rory McIlroy hits a 436 yard drive at the Scottish Open He drove the green on a 440yd hole. 30+ yards longer than any other drive on the tour this year. Hard to get one's mind around. Palestinian Death Toll Nears 100 as Hamas Vows More Attacks on Israel The mess here is just unimaginably bad. It feels like the whole region is just melting down. Science Journal Pulls 60 Papers in Peer-Review Fraud This kind of thing makes me really angry. Science struggles with credibility among the general population enough without stuff like this.  Boeing's Space Bins Designed to Fit Everyone's Annoying Carry Ons

"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, with a favorable impression of himself." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flop Life - What if we all acted like we were in the World Cup? This is pretty funny. I have to say all the flopping is one of my least favorite parts of soccer (and NBA basketball for that matter). Space Probe Might Lack Nitrogen to Bring it Home European Effort to Simulate Brain Draws Fire I had heard about this. I didn't know there was controversy around it.  "Like a moonshot before we know how to build a plane" makes it sound pretty unfeasible. Twin Turbo Porsche Cayman GT4 Yeah baby - 450HP. For Cyclists, Best Helmet may be no Helmet at all

"There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible and wrong" -H. L. Mencken The New Business Casual is Still Uptight   Every tribe has it's headdresses and nose rings . . . Three Reasons to Tout your Colleagues Good ideas here. I find these principles to be consistently true. Apple will Engrave "Penis" on your IPad, but not "Clit" or "Vagina" I'm sure this is clueless, not intentional. But man, it looks really bad. Cutting the High Cost of Digital Living

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein Fan Sues After Untimely Nap Brings Unwanted Attention Wow - now that is a stretch. "Something vaguely bad happened to me, so someone owes me $10,000,000." A Billionaire Mathematician's Life of Ferocious Curiosity Wow - quite an impressive dude. I find it really interesting the level of impact that these enormous fortunes can have when people apply them philanthropically. Smallpox Virus Found in Unsecured NIH Freezer Really scary. I am reading a book about a terrorist plot involving synthesized small box virus. Terrifying stuff. In the book, the author suggests that, vectored against an unvaccinated population, the virus could essentially wipe out a country in the space of a couple of months. Germany 7, Brazil 1 Absolutely brutal. The team in tears? Brazil fans cheering Germany's last two goals? 

"A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later." - George Smith Patton, Jr.  New TSA Rules for Electronics on Flights Bound for US That's gonna leave a mark.  Those lines will be slow. Principles are no Match for Europeans' Love of US Web Titans I can really understand that the people who are stridently against the collection and use of personal data aren't all necessarily using Facebook and buying at Amazon.  But the numbers indicate that some of them must be.  Hypocrisy, thy name is humanity. Remote Control Contraceptive Chip This seems like a really wonderful idea. So long as it's not hackable, it really solves many problems.

"Diamonds are nothing more than lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs." - Malcolm Forbes Prepare Yourself: Game of Thrones Wines are Coming Heh.  Just don't drink the House Baelish red. Umm - that's a LOW landing All I can really say is holy sh%t. That would be  . . . exciting. Coming to US for Baby, and a Womb to Carry it This is one of the places where my US individual-freedom oriented view really diverges from the parentalist European states. To me, the notion of outlawing surrogacy because it inevitably means someone is being exploited is incredibly narrow minded and self defeating.  How many times does it have to be shown that if there is something people want, then there will be a market for it before people learn? Drugs? Prostitution? Abortion? Alcohol? Prohibition does not work, and only serves to expose the potentially exploited service providers to a greater risk of really, really nasty exploitation. College Students Joining V...

20's Beach Vernacular For Bellicose Brazil, Payback Carries Heavy Price: Loss of Neymar This is a really interesting one. While it's always nice to think of karmic justice coming in, what really stands out is the clear idiocy of the ref. They Have Seen the Future of the Internet, and it is Dark Things are definitely at the paranoid end of the pendulum right now. From Axes to Razors, the Stuff that Makes you Feel Manly

Younger Americans are Less Patriotic, At Least in Some Ways I actually think this headline is wrong - the article says: . . . the decline seems to have more to do with reactions to the symbols of American democracy than its values. Older Americans remain remarkably high in their devotion to symbols like the flag, while young citizens are cooler toward Old Glory but express higher support for classic American ideals like equality and opportunity.    Seems to me that real patriotism is about values, not symbols. Is Obesity OK? This is not really a tough one. Obesity is terrible for you. Being obese does not make you a terrible person. People need to get their minds around the distinction. Google Reinstates "Forgotten" Links After Pressure Seems to me that under any interpretation, it's dead wrong to remove news articles. I hate the right to be forgotten. Fireworks from a Drone - Awesome I really want a drone now . . .

Winner in the Amazon War   Why has Google Cast me into Oblivion?   World's Largest Plane was Just in Minneapolis   There's no Injury Epidemic, but be Careful with Fourth of July Fireworks

Tearing Down the Whorearchy   Anthrax? That's not the Real Worry   All of Tim Howard's Saves Against Belgium

Terrifying Navy Destroyer Runs on Jet Engines, Is Terrifying   Supreme Court Rejects Google's Street View Appeal   Technology as a Path to Product Transparency   Internet Billionaire: Revolution is Coming   How two Polish Gamers Created a Global Blockbuster

Facebook Says it's Sorry; We've Heard that Before   NSA Chief Says Damage from Snowden Leaks is Manageable   Watch Jaguar Turn Four Villains-in-Training into Performance Drivers

Historic Home Headaches   NASA Test of Mars Landing Technology   MIG 31 Foxhound Interceptor   The Single Largest Land Vehicle on Earth   Fly Like a Rock Star   Royals' First Walk Off Hit of the Year!

Top 10 Fighter Jet Flybys: In Sarajevo, Divisions that Drove an Assassin have only Begun to Heal   When a Health Plan Knows Where you Shop   The Brave New World of Three Parent IVF

For Fitness, Push Yourself   The Incompetence Dogma   The 18 Things you Learn Driving a Mclaren 650S in the Rain   The Tech Savvy Supreme Court

Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones   Money Splits a City Still Mourning its Firefighters   Google's Grand Plans   A Sunken Kingdom Reemerges   Harrier has a Stuck Nose Gear, Lands on Stool, Pilot is Awesome

Vanadium: The Metal that Soon May be Powering your Nieghbourhood   How Much Would it Cost to Actually Throw a Game of Thrones Wedding?   As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise   Royals Win Ninth Straight to Take Over First

Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame Batting Champion, Dies at 54   Having a Daughter May have an Effect on Judges   A Helicopter of One's Own   The Spoiler-Free Game of Thrones Twitter Translator

The Battle Over Dress Codes   Naked Confessions of the College Bound   The Oddest LeMans Race Cars     All our Patent are Belong to you

Brokers Fight Rule to Favor Clients' Best Interests   Your Personality Type, Defined by the Internet   Why Yes, I do Want to Buy this Car and Plane Eating Robot Dinosaur   Amazing Up Close Photos Capture Warplanes and Birds Majesty in Motion

Controlling your Home with one Home   The Great Digital Friendly Outdoors   Billionaires with Big Ideas are Privitizing American Science   Honeymoon

Student Borrowers and the Economy     Wild 3D Printed Dress   Here's NASA's new Design for a Warp Drive Ship

Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policies   Pen that Can Write in Any Color you See   A Possible Way to Save a Disappearing Leonardo   Martini Liveried Porsche

Stars of Vine Cash In   Digital Deadly Sins   Terrifying PSA Scares Moviegoers   Origami Razor Uses the Power of Paper Cuts to Shave

Inside the Absolutely Wild Ride of the USS Chopper   Three Awesome Games that Help Kids Make Games   With Tough Tone, Kerry Defends Swap for Bergdahl     A Computer has Passed the Turing Test for the First Time   The Mountain Deadlifts 1000 Pounds

Becoming Rocky Balboa   Performance Artists Swap Wine Labels   The German Soldier "Liberated" by D-Day   Wanting to Believe in California Chrome   As California Chrome Tackles Belmont, Strategy is Everything

How the Times Covered D-Day   An Old Warplane's Do-over Flight in France   US Student Disarms Seattle University Killer   Vodafone Reveals Direct Wiretaps

The Rush to Demonize Sgt. Bergdahl   President Obama Was Right     Days After Federal Seizure, Another Type of Ransomware Gains Ground   Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data

Google Glass Enters the Operating Room   For One Tiananmen-Era Student,a Different Path to Power   In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life   The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence Kansas

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Reporter   Hacked Homes   Columbia, Challenger and the Nature of Calamity   Recruiting Help: Gamers

EPA to Mandate 30% Emissions Cut   Apple Monitors for Health and Home     Human Suspended Animation Trials to Begin     Navy Special Forces - Deadly Unless You're a Fish

A Strip Club in Manhattan Proves that Vice is Hard to Kill   Unlocking Secrets, if not its own Value   U.S. Stepping Up on Carbon   Supersonic Aircraft for Transport: 1964   A Phone that Lies for You

Military Funds Brain Control Interface to Control Feelings   Right to be Forgotten? Not that easy   Silicon Valley May be in a Bubble, but it's not 2000   Samsung Stakes Claim on Wearable Tech that Monitors Health   'Conflict Minerals' Deadline Looms for Tech Firms

To Young Minds of Today, Harvard is the Stanford of the East   Capitalism Eating its Children   Richard III: Team Rebuilds 'Most Famous Spine'   After Decades of Silent Wandering, a NASA Probe Phones Home

A Marine Magician's Vanishing Act   DNR: What Young Doctors Would Choose     Doing Science in the Wild

What did the Framers Mean?     Delay Tests Video Game Company     Governments Await Obama's Move on Carbon   Apple Devices Highjacked for Ransom

Woman Describes Attack by Self-Described High Elf   Tech Firms Push to Tighten Privacy Law   My T-Shirt Told me to Take a Chill Pill   The Downside of Living Debt Free   New Debate over Income Inequality

'Star Trek' Prop to Help 'Reading Rainbow' Grow   Abandoned Mall is Spooky as Hell   Why Moon Landing Could Never Have Been Faked     DARPA Invention Gives Soldiers Terminator Vision

Fitness Crazed   Got Nerves of Steel? Meet the Thunderbolt!     Giants Behaving Badly   Chinese Soldier Drops Grenade - Instructor Saves his Ass   Flying the World's Fastest Plane

Google 3D Imaging Tablet   US Case Offers Glimpse Into Chinese Hacker Army     The Science of Jet Lag   The Best Way to Win an Argument

Biggest Drawbacks of Owning an Exotic Car   Chemtrails Don't Exist and Idiots are Really Easy to Fool     Great Miscalculations

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