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RT @AbnormalReturns – The wealthiest 1 percent effect http://t.co/fdxP8YgM

Dilbert: Our competitor is suing us in an Elbonian court for some kind of design trademark violation – http://t.co/MMo8uzL9

Merle Hazard: The Ballad of Diamond Jim – http://t.co/ymedWbKW

Crikey – iPhone accelerometer detects keyboard keystrokes – http://t.co/rNqfoqxN

MT @ramblinollie: Powerful video from #OccupyWallStreet http://t.co/wpzgBy1k

"the average US adolescent is heavily exposed to alcohol brand references in popular music" http://t.co/RgkcUmLl

Fat Replaces Oil for F-16s as Biofuels Head to War http://t.co/YbWEQkkW

Inside the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – http://t.co/jmtuaj8P

The 'self-made' billionaire who wants to mine the moon – http://t.co/ne26oQER

Daniel Kahneman: Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence – http://t.co/ObpVoW6g

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup http://t.co/THFflSR2

RT @JimMahar – Nassim Taleb on Wall Street Protest http://t.co/ogNkhXuH

Leaderless, consensus-based participatory democracy and its discontents – http://t.co/sUBJvGzT

Research – The Network of Global Corporate Control. http://t.co/Pd30H2Og

Is it possible to keep super-intelligences nicely in a box? http://t.co/4uC14orY (pdf)

Rationally Speaking: Engineers vs intellectuals? How Timothy Ferris gets it spectacularly wrong http://t.co/FePzwflb

xkcd: You are not the light of my life – http://t.co/yqGNaVWn

Video – Population: Seven billion, but how many more? http://t.co/esQCeExS

Internet memes and networked individualism: A perfect couple? – http://t.co/KHvtOnxv

St Paul's Clerics suppress report on bankers' greed to save church embarrassment http://t.co/o9Mxl5Eu #LSX

Is trillion the new billion? http://t.co/UwFu6rkd

RT @proffriedman – Apologies, Their Use and Meaning: A Course Module http://t.co/5TzO9UCS @SSRN

Something a bit different. Freakonometrics has been thinking about Zombies and Random Walks – http://t.co/snBf6qTc

Euphemisms for Morally Disengaged Managers http://t.co/VyUmnxzU @psyfitec

RT @psyfitec – One Long Argument: A Big List of Behavioural Biases http://t.co/xYR9a4WR

Rather cool: Kinect hack merges the real and virtual worlds http://t.co/2uWSIiI1

Thank goodness. Financial crisis forces Berlusconi to delay release of latest love song CD – http://t.co/b7NCNpEJ

Occu-π: The Strange History of Counting To Pi – http://t.co/DvZYzZKN

RT @sarahshoraka: How has the world become so screwed that Sarkozy and Merkel dictate when the Greek referendum will take place and what …

RT @infoarbitrage – Too many start-ups or too few venture dollars http://t.co/UUJgbIwX

What to make of Andrea Rossi's apparent cold fusion success – http://t.co/F6svrx5v

Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world's fastest growing economy http://t.co/gDwZs5lh

Freedom, Anarchy and Conformism in Academic Research http://t.co/sy2wMPvW

Any article that mentions 'brain parasites' is bound to be uncomfortable reading: http://t.co/gplDk1cK

MPs questioning the top lawyer at HM Revenue take the unusual step of making him swear an oath http://t.co/KAWwkIYy

There's one absolutely foolproof way to cut carbon emissions: economic collapse – http://t.co/AhPmIxLm

Video: Jeanette Winterson: Bankers committed 'crimes against humanity http://t.co/uk8zGHkO

BBC News Channel: James Murdoch is being questioned by the culture select committee for the second time http://t.co/iFkPJjFm

All we need now is for someone to drag out a recording of that #murdoch meeting.

In praise of nerd kids – http://t.co/16lbeXBV

What are the odds of your existence? http://t.co/69gEGAOY

After 34 Years in Space, the Voyager Spacecraft Fly On - and On and On – http://t.co/YEHBuyU6

Unusual to see power law distributions mentioned in the mainstream press – http://t.co/cp5nRpro

I'd rather be the platform than the App.

Steve Jobs really wasn't a very nice man – Malcolm Gladwell offers a profile in the New Yorker: http://t.co/Bu2u203c

The nocebo effect: Wellcome Trust science writing prize essay – http://t.co/vaI1SXNw

96% of people with addictions actually function quite well most of the time http://t.co/Q93GTmDz

"It’s a modern conceit that we are the most sophisticated people who ever lived." Try, Eudoxus of Cnidos http://t.co/CwKwxp9y

Interesting: "The Shady Marketing Scheme That’s Buying Off Your Favorite Bloggers" http://t.co/RWEwn0BU

xkcd: What your favourite map projection says about you – http://t.co/Ybemkpjr

Science journal Nature is being sued for Libel by a former editor of the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals http://t.co/107JRqWW

Can evolutionary theorists ever make sense of religion? http://t.co/KNroigl0

In praise of … Daniel Kahneman – http://t.co/j84D7bOv

Princeton University's annual Art of Science photo competition – http://t.co/dlDuLFlM

Menger 1934 revisited – http://t.co/8u5CL26d

Parrondo's paradox – Losing strategies that win: http://t.co/zZ4HonmZ

Sci-Fi Fans: Alistair Reynolds' (@AquilaRift) sketch of the lighthugger, "Nostalgia for Infinity" http://t.co/iYOmuMOw #scifi

Actually @AquilaRift – Just been re-reading House of Suns. Fantastic novel – http://t.co/RFp25FaH

During the 1990s, the US created 5 programs tasked with reducing the proliferation threat of WMD knowledge – http://t.co/bZlRStml

Crikey: Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim – http://t.co/c6yHnUXs

A new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology – http://t.co/3AKZawfJ

Via @Ritholtz – Memo from Lobbyist to Bankers on How to Thwart Occupy Wall Street – http://t.co/5NlwApI7

Tim Minchin – If I Didn't Have You http://t.co/6WKKtFtB

Excellent graphic from xkcd: Money – A chart of almost all of it, where it is and what it can do – http://t.co/0x0t7tmP

Yet more neutrino results suggest neutrino energies are consistent with slower-than-light-speed travel http://t.co/q081FYus

"…a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change…" http://t.co/T4KqqhKL

Battling the Internet Water Army: Detection of Hidden Paid Posters – http://t.co/fLxW85qF

The dynamics of firm lobbying http://t.co/muISo9JP

UC Davis Pepper Spray: 4 Camera Version – http://t.co/mZwH22Vn Via @Ritholtz

Some fairly staggering facts about Amazon – http://t.co/UHhice3S

4.74 degrees of separation – http://t.co/BiKWw3Aa

New Scientist TV: 3D moon flyover – pretty cool http://t.co/XdrPBkEf

An elegant, 1-page solution to the so-called “fixed point” theorem opens up new perspectives in physics and economics http://t.co/NnDD8GQu

Confessions of a Tweeter: http://t.co/6AqewYhY

The Big Data Boom: "Breakthroughs in innovation often rely on breakthroughs in measurement…" http://t.co/BZGb7YsP

Customer Reviews: Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray http://t.co/7EIVqd5a

Pretty amazing if it works: Mars Rover Curiosity mission animation – http://t.co/gXG5siqY more info here: http://t.co/o3lzMi67

One of my favourite XKCD cartoons features Mars Rovers too: http://t.co/uIRjDJRU

Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average http://t.co/nOx0hDmF via @comdig

RT @MoneyScience – The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin – http://t.co/mnOd48vi