Author: Lloyd Morgan
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Our True Ancestors
Based on molecular genetic sequence analysis, as a human our nearest relatives are—in order—primates, flying lemurs (colugos), treeshrews and then rabbits and rats. These are the Euarchontoglires, or Supraprimates.
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The Seed Salon
I’ve just discovered Seed Magazine’s Seed Salon and am enthralled. Each ‘episode’ is a short, ten-minute conversation between a scientist and an artist or humanist. It’s like a conversational TED Talk. via Kottke
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Reverse Dictionary
Know the concept but just can’t find the word—or similar words—for it? A thesaurus is no use. A dictionary’s just torture. Help is here in the form of the reverse dictionary; I’ve got a feeling this is going to come in handy quite often.
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First Song Downloads. Now Organic Chemistry
The rise of university textbook piracy: the scourge of the textbook publisher, a blessing for students. All forms of print publishing must contend with the digital transition, but college textbook publishing has a particularly nasty problem on its hands. College students may be the angriest group of captive customers to be found anywhere. Compared with…
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Communicating Design Decisions
Primarily meant as an article on how to communicate design decisions to clients, Smashing Magazine also gives us some tips on good website design: Pretty doesn’t mean effective: statistics are your friend Every design should have a measurable goal Your site should have one clear path Remember the Swiss army knife Provide performance metrics Conclusion:…
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Wep App Start Screen Designs
If you need design inspiration for a website’s start screen, this screen shot collection of Web app start screens (AKA, signed-out Home Pages) from around the Web is a great starting point.
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7 Lies Stopping Us Starting Our Own Company
Waiting for the right moment to start your own company seems like a perpetual waiting game. There’s always a reason not to, right? LifeRemix tackles the 7 lies preventing us from starting out own business: I’m too busy right now. I’ll start when I have more time. After I get an MBA, I’ll be ready…
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Start-Ups Are Where You Want to Be
I suppose you could call Ooga Labs a conglomerate of start-ups. On their ‘About’ page they give a compelling argument to join their company, but more enticing is the open letter from their CEO imploring everyone to avoid the prestige (hype?) of big companies and do something entrepreneurial. So you’re going to take a cube…
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A 14-Year-Old and John Lennon Discuss Peace
In December 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held one of their famous “bed-in for peace” protests at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto. This was when a 14-year-old Jerry Levitan sneaked into their hotel room and secured an interview with Lennon on the topic of World Peace. 38 years later Levitan produced an animated…
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Godwin’s Law
Godwin’s Law is an adage formulated by American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. The rule does not make any statement whether any particular reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis might be…