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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature

AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature | Vorager | Scoop.it
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The Particle Zoo: Subatomic Particle Softies

The Particle Zoo: Subatomic Particle Softies | Vorager | Scoop.it
subatomic particle softies from the standard model of physics http://t.co/Cipzd0Mm...
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Narcissistic, broke, and 7 other ways to describe the Millennial generation [Updated]

Narcissistic, broke, and 7 other ways to describe the Millennial generation [Updated] | Vorager | Scoop.it
This new generation of adults — portrayed most recently in HBO's Girls — has proved quite difficult to define, but not for lack of trying

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Campaigners warn on Google Glass use

Campaigners warn on Google Glass use | Vorager | Scoop.it
Google Glass and other augmented reality gadgets risk creating a world in which privacy is impossible, warn campaigners.
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But of course, augreality contacts will the consumer market in just a few years. How do you respond to that? Random iris checkpoints?

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Ayn Rand in Silicon Valley: a tragic love story?

Ayn Rand in Silicon Valley: a tragic love story? | Vorager | Scoop.it
The Baffler
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A nightmarish vision of Tim O'Reilly's America 2.0: America turned into a nation of developers and a developing nation.

 

Evgeny Morozov at the Baffler deconstructs Silicon Valley's politcal vision in "The Meme Hustler"

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Are women-led startups simply better?

Are women-led startups simply better? | Vorager | Scoop.it

 Great live discussion on women who are making the world a better place.

 

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Is Social Media Making Us Antisocial? [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter

Is Social Media Making Us Antisocial? [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter | Vorager | Scoop.it
Is Social Media Making Us Antisocial? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Not rhetorical. The answer is yes.

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History vs. history as China plans to rebuild past

History vs. history as China plans to rebuild past | Vorager | Scoop.it
BEIJING (AP) — In a corner of old Beijing, the government may soon be both destroying history and remaking it.
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History is just another story.

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How reading flip-flops from digital to physical - The Guardian

How reading flip-flops from digital to physical - The Guardian | Vorager | Scoop.it
The Guardian
How reading flip-flops from digital to physical
The Guardian
Added by michelebel; 3 January 2013 04:41AM; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius , A. S. L. Farquharson and R.B.
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#HackJersey: Transform Storytelling with Data and #News - NY Convergence

#HackJersey: Transform Storytelling with Data and #News - NY Convergence | Vorager | Scoop.it
#HackJersey: Transform Storytelling with Data and #News NY Convergence Hack Jersey is New Jersey's first 24-hour hackathon to invite both journalists and coders to work together and build innovative products that transform the way people use data...
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The Delian League: A Prelude to Empire and War

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The Delian League: A Prelude to Empire and War
By Ken Oziah
Published Online (2013)
Introduction: During the classical period of Greece, the rise of the Delian League was a major factor that lead to the Peloponnesian War.
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Don't know if Frank Miller would go this far, but it could happen

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MAC Hires Bodybuilder Model: Inside the World of Muscle Makeup

MAC Hires Bodybuilder Model: Inside the World of Muscle Makeup | Vorager | Scoop.it
View the MAC Hires Bodybuilder Model: Inside the World of Muscle Makeup photo gallery on Yahoo! Shine. Find more news related pictures in our photo galleries.
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Changing the dominant cultural narrative isn't that hard...

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The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?

The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia? | Vorager | Scoop.it
The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
By Elliott A. Green
Jewish Bible Quarterly, Vol. 29, No.
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The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon

The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon | Vorager | Scoop.it
The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon De Armond, Thea Bachelor of Arts, Departmental Honors in Archaeology, Wesleyan University, April (2009) Abstract In his New History, the second century CE grammarian Ptolemy Chennos...
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Hipsters vs. Google Glass

Hipsters vs. Google Glass | Vorager | Scoop.it
Somehow, the group of those who feel Google Glass is a touch pointless is growing. Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen and Seth Myers are the latest. Read this article by Chris Matyszczyk on CNET News.
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Godard said, "When you laugh at something, you have already begun to forgive it."

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All you need to know – about yourself - FT.com

All you need to know – about yourself - FT.com | Vorager | Scoop.it
Acxiom is preparing to step out of the shadows.
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Can big data tell us who we are?

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Electronic Arts named the worst company in America – again

Electronic Arts named the worst company in America – again | Vorager | Scoop.it
For the second year in a row, readers of the consumer-watchdog website The Consumerist have named Electronic Arts "the worst company in America," vilifying the video game publisher more than Bank of America, Comcast and Ticketmaster (which took second,...
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What you do doesn't matter as much as how you treat people. Why is this a surprise?

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We, the people: the beautiful non-violent Italian revolution

We, the people: the beautiful non-violent Italian revolution | Vorager | Scoop.it
We're on the eve of General Elections in Italy. On Sunday 24 and Monday 25 February, the Italian people will vote on ending the clutches of an almost twenty-year-long period of conflict-of-interest...

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It's hard to believe and harder not to.

Erica Bilder's curator insight, February 23, 4:11 PM

Change is possible

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Telepathic rats solve problems together - FT.com

Telepathic rats solve problems together - FT.com | Vorager | Scoop.it
Rats have collaborated telepathically to solve problems across continents in the first use of neurotechnology to transmit thoughts directly between animals’ brains.
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That's funny. I was just thinking that....

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Reverse Engineering the #Storytelling Techniques in a Fast Company Feature

Reverse Engineering the #Storytelling Techniques in a Fast Company Feature | Vorager | Scoop.it
The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations
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Finally, proof that all movie trailers use the same color palette

Finally, proof that all movie trailers use the same color palette | Vorager | Scoop.it
The contrasting colors orange and blue appear together so often in movie posters and videogame box art as to inspire countless blog posts, tumblrs, and even their own entry on TV Tropes.
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The unoriginality of popular culture.

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The “Art” of Storytelling - BlogWorld (blog)

The “Art” of Storytelling - BlogWorld (blog) | Vorager | Scoop.it
The “Art” of Storytelling
BlogWorld (blog)
Most don't have it; a fortunate few do. Only a handful of very talented “naturals” have the ability to engage an audience through their brilliantly-crafted stories.
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Shape of the Beast: The Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Deities and Demons of Ancient Italy

Shape of the Beast: The Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Deities and Demons of Ancient Italy | Vorager | Scoop.it
Shape of the Beast: The Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Deities and Demons of Ancient Italy
Wayne Leonard Rupp Jr.(Florida State University)
Doctor of Philosophy, Florida State University, Treatises and Dissertations.
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The Mandrake and the Ancient World

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The Mandrake and the Ancient World
By R.K. Harrison
The Evangelical Quarterly, Vol.
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Worth a nibble.

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Brands, Narratives and Story Worlds – Part 1

Brands, Narratives and Story Worlds – Part 1 | Vorager | Scoop.it
In Part 1 of this series I talk about the application of cutting edge entertainment IP franchise production techniques to address some of the challenges we see today in corporate communications. En...
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Here's why storytelling for creative brands only works across One Continuous Media.

 

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Boudica’s Speeches in Tacitus and Dio

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Boudica’s Speeches in Tacitus and Dio By Eric Adler Classical World, Volume 101, Number 2 (2008) Abstract: Some recent scholarship has argued that ancient Roman historians inevitably cast foreigners as inferior and thereby justified Roman...
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People were making cheese over 7,000 years ago, researchers find

People were making cheese over 7,000 years ago, researchers find | Vorager | Scoop.it
The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Northern Europe made cheese more than 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, published in the latest issue  of...
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