I’ve been shopping for a used car and the chaotic cyber bazaar has revealed some sad realities about the state of our economy, at least in comparison to skyrocketing stock market. This virtual shopping adventure has also intensified my deep misgivings about America in general, and has further radicalized me to the point of wanting to pen my own manifesto.
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You leap through time to the year 2330 to discover humanity has mastered faster-than-light travel, artificial gravity, fusion, and has spread across the galaxy . . . yet everyone still needs to get a job—including you. This is the tedious universe that one of the world’s premiere video game studios, Bethesda, has created for their
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How do you market to a vampire? That’s the challenge interactive agency Digital Kitchen faced as they created a series of fang-in-cheek ads to promote HBO’s smash show True Blood. Using applications such as Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite, the all-Mac shop produced billboards and print ads for brands like MINI and Gillette,
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DNA stores more data per ounce than any man-made storage media yet devised. That makes detangling it and decoding gene sequences for statistical analysis a mathematically intense undertaking. “From a numerical point of view, if you’ve got 1,000 individuals in your study and you’re typing 100,000 to a million markers, you’ve got at least 200
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Dr. Nouchine Hadjikhani reads minds. As a radiologist at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the Harvard Medical School (HMS), she seeks through the use of MRI to unravel the mystery of migraines and to understand how people perceive and process body language.
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Apple – Pro – Profiles – T-Pain Whether he’s throwing out a staccato stream of rhymes or sounding out some smooth vocals, T- Pain’s style is unmistakable. The title of his debut album “Rappa Ternt Sanga” sums it up. T-Pain strives to bring hip-hop and R&B together without compromise. And it works — Five Grammy
To BT, it’s all ones and zeros. “Music is just applied mathematics,” he says. “And so is visual art — it’s all related. You’re just dealing with color instead of the audible spectrum.” For this musician‐composer‐ sound artist, the universe is, simply put, binary. And his latest project is a pure expression of that philosophy,
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On stage, Jamie Lidell possesses an almost nuclear energy. His fingers dart at the myriad buttons on his MIDI gear. His eyes bulge. He wails. He shouts. He looks — to all appearances — ready to explode. In person, however, he is shy, soft‐voiced and just a little awkward.
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Read on AutoGuide The 2022 Honda Civic Si follows the old formula of making a Civic fun: It has more power, a sport suspension, racey red interior bits, and a manual transmission. But is the car really fun or too tame? Grown Up Exterior The new Si wears the latest Civic’s more serious and arguably
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