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Science | May 22, 2013 James Weatherall: If Math Can't Help Solve Economic Problems—What Can?
— "The Physics of Wall Street [by James Owen Weatherall] is a thoroughly researched history of modern physics and finance, with lucid explanations of fractals, derivatives and other esoteric topics,"
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Health | May 22, 2013 How Much Is Too Much? Michael Moss and Gina Kolata On Salt Intake
— Weeding out the "healthy choice" from the sea of savory, lip-smacking processed foods on your grocery store shelves can be tricky, health speaker Michael Moss says. Combine confusing nutritional labels with the myriad of conflicting research on what you should—and shouldn't be—eating and the simple question of "what's for dinner?" can turn into a real head-scratcher. As Gina...
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Social Change | May 22, 2013 The Rich Donate To The Elite—The Poor Help The Poor: Ken Stern On Charity
— Social change speaker Ken Stern says that reading press releases on major donations in American makes it easy to think that "the story of charity in this country is a story of epic generosity on the part of the American rich." Despite the reports publicizing massive donations from wealthy donors, or the numerous university buildings that have been named after affluent benefactors, Stern argues that those...
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Science | May 22, 2013 3D Printers Can't Revolutionize Industry All On Their Own: Neil Gershenfeld
— "3D printing is a strange meme that is being misrepresented in the press by people who don't actually use it," science speaker Neil Gershenfeld tells BBC News. In the article, Gershenfeld (Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms) argues that despite being a beneficial technology, 3D printing won't be spurring a manufacturing revolution all by itself....
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Big Data | May 21, 2013 Cascade: Big Data Speaker Jer Thorp on the Secrets to Viral Content
— Viral content: It's an internet buzz word that many claim to understand—but few actually do. Big data speaker Jer Thorp may be bringing us one step closer, however, to truly grasping the anatomy of viral content. And, through the use of his data visualization tool Cascades, the data artist is using Twitter to learn how content spreads across the web. Once we can pinpoint how a piece of content moves throughout cyber space,...
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Arts and Pop Culture | May 21, 2013 Think Pink: Adam Alter Talks Psychology of Design on CBS
— What would prompt someone to paint their walls an obnoxious and unpopular bubble-gum pink? As science speaker Adam Alter explains in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, a certain shade of vibrant pink (commonly referred to as Drunk Tank Pink) tends to have a calming effect on the people exposed to it....
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Michael Moss's #1 New York Times bestseller Salt Sugar Fat delves into the inner workings of America's food corporations, and unveils the way they use these three ingredients to hook consumers into becoming processed food addicts.
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