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When are MIT Students Asleep?
Via Joost Bonsen, my former MIT Media Lab instructor, here’s an interesting tool that charts a histogram of MIT student sleep patterns. You can filter by course and degree level. Undergrad engineering...
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Lightroom 4 Preset: Vintage Rajasthan
Here’s my third free Lightroom 4 Preset, Vintage Rajasthan. My first two are here and here. I developed this one when editing a photo I took outside a temple in Udaipur, India. I was there working on...
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1933 Beer Brewing Diagram and Subway Maps
Completely unrelated, other than that they’re both interesting, and both from 1933.A 1933 beer brewing diagram from popular science:And a some maps of the London Underground. In 1932 the map still...
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Lightroom 4 Preset: Silhouette
Here’s my fourth free Lightroom 4 preset, Silhouette. It’s a fairly straightforward black and white preset that works especially well for partial or whole silhouettes. Depending on the starting...
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Bend When The Sun Moves – Out Today!
I’m excited to announce that an EP I worked on earlier this year with a group of great musicians is being released today. It’s called ‘Bend When The Sun Moves’ and our band is Vanessa Kafka & the...
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Fiscal Cliff Offers
Via Wongblog, this is the best description of the negotiations I’ve seen yet:
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Top Rock & Roll Riffs (with Tabs!)
I previously posted this pretty amazing video of 100 rock riffs played in sequence. Now, via Chartporn, someone’s matched the footage up with guitar tabs, making it easy for any guitar player to follow...
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Wonkblog’s Choose Your Own Fiscal Cliff Adverture
After I posted Wonkblog’s summary of fiscal cliff offers, Dylan Matthews posted an interactive fiscal cliff graph where you can add/remove various policies to see how they affect estimated GDP and...
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The Much Feared (but less talked about) “Milk Cliff”
Via Ezra Klein, “If Congress fails to renew the farm bill by Jan. 1, the country’s farm policy will revert back to laws dating from 1949. Government price supports for milk would rise significantly —...
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Lightroom 4 Preset: Joshua Tree
Here’s my fifth free Lightroom 4 preset, Joshua Tree. I’ve been very surprised by the positive responses I’ve gotten to my first four presets, which can be found in the ‘Lightroom 4 Presets’ section of...
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Shtetl-Optimized and Thoughts on Lincoln
I’ve been following the blog of Scott Aaronson, Shtetl-Optimized, for a while now — he’s a professor at MIT with research focusing on quantum computers and complexity theory. When he writes about his...
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Comment on the “Milk Cliff”
Adam Sigel, in response to an earlier post:Turns out that Tommy from Snatch was somewhat right when he told us to drink less milk. “Big Dairy” has conditioned us to equate milk with calcium, but it’s...
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Rules of Investing
Barry Ritholtz has a great list of investing rules, originally posted in two parts with descriptions in the Washington Post here and here. He recently reposted the consolidated list on his blog, The...
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Top Songs From 2012
Inspired by a friend’s post of his favorite 2012 songs, I thought I’d put my own list together. My favorites from this past year definitely span a wide range of genres – I can’t quite pin down whether...
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Woody Guthrie’s 1942 New Years Resolutions
What an interesting guy: My favorites: 3. Wash teeth if any 16. Learn people better 19. Keep hoping machine running 27. Help win war — beat fascism
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Sustainable Approaches to Reducing Food Waste in India
About a year ago I spent a month in India working on an MIT research project focused on food waste with a classmate and close friend, Paul Artiuch. Throughout that month, we blogged extensively about...
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Lightroom 4 Preset: Speakeasy
Here’s my sixth free Lightroom 4 preset, Speakeasy. This one adds some slight enhancement, mostly sharpening, contrast, and vibrance, without changing the overall look and feel of the photo. It’s quite...
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Avan Jogia and Inigo Montoya
My site traffic has surged 500% over the past few days after 20-year old Canadian sensation Avan Jogia tweeted about my post on Mandy Patinkin, Inigo Montoya, and Saul Berenson: Admittedly, I’d never...
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