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30 Apr 2010 09:24

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Biz: Consumers driving gross domestic product’s improvement

  • 3.2% the increase in gross domestic product this quarter – good, but smaller than expected
  • 2.55% of that growth came from
    consumer spending – the largest boost since 2006 source
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15 Apr 2010 20:12

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Offbeat: Let’s face it: This guy’s beard is more impressive than yours

Slate has this killer gallery of beards up today, and as you might suspect, Julius is getting a little jealous. See, robots can’t grow facial hair. source
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06 Apr 2010 22:40

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U.S.: Births: Fewer births, but the moms were a little older

  • -2% decline in births across the board in the U.S. last year
  • 40+the only age group that had any increase in birth rate source
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18 Feb 2010 08:24

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World: Laugh all you want, but Iran is innovating super-fast

  • 11 times faster growth in science than any other country source
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14 Feb 2010 10:41

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Biz: In case you hate Zhu Zhu Hamsters, they’re multiplying big time

  • four number of hamsters Cepia, Inc. sold last Christmas, when they were a super-hot toy
  • 40+ number of hamsters the company will sell starting this summer; way to milk a fad, guys source
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06 Feb 2010 22:56

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Tech: Facebook as news source: The danger of getting news from friends

  • Facebook is a unique and wonderful artery to our friends’ lives and interests. But if we define our reading by our friends’ libraries, we will all find what we already expected rather than what we need to know.
  • Atlantic writer Derek Thompson • Regarding recent reports that Facebook has become a primary source of finding news for many people. He brings up a good point, one that news like this only emphasizes: With the change in journalism to something suggested to us by friends, all cookies instead of a well-balanced meal, we end up limiting our information to what we want to know rather than what we need to know. And, considering how often it shows up in politics already, that’s pretty dangerous. source
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29 Jan 2010 09:24

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Biz: The economic picture: Growth’s happening, but jobs aren’t

  • 5.7% growth in the last quarter, which is the best quarter since 2003 (!)
  • 208,000 jobs were lost last quarter, which isn’t awesome at all source
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28 Jan 2010 11:03

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U.S.: Obama’s post-SOTU plans? Announcing high-speed rail, of course!

  • $8 billion to build an inter-city train system that screams source
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21 Jan 2010 23:54

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Tech: Linux keeps getting bigger, and big business is largely the reason

  • 7,000 lines of code get added to the Linux monster daily, says some nerd who actually studied this
  • 75% of all code was put in by commercial developers like IBM, Red Hat and Intel source
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20 Jan 2010 22:09

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World: China’s growing faster than its censorship walls can go up

  • 10.7% growth in its GDP in 4Q ’09 alone source
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