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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 10 - Cached

shared by Ed Webb on 18 Mar 10 - Cached

The social-networking giant has opened its first-ever office in Asia—in the country where being all up in one another's business is practically a birthright.
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Shashi Tharoor, the country's junior minister for foreign affairs, has become a major national celebrity thanks to his tweets, the candor of some of which has got him into trouble with the fustier, unwired elements of the cabinet to which he belongs. Tharoor has nearly 700,000 followers, putting him in the top 10 of the world's tweeting politicians. (He is almost certainly the only one who writes every tweet himself.)
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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 14 Aug 09 - Cached

Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves.
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"My boyfriend has threatened to break up with me if I keep whipping out my iPhone to look up random facts about celebrities when we're out to dinner."
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In 1954, psychologist James Olds and his team were working in a laboratory at McGill University, studying how rats learned.
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He eventually discovered that if the probe was put in the brain's lateral hypothalamus and the rats were allowed to press a lever and stimulate their own electrodes, they would press until they collapsed.
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For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs.
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when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections, about divining meaning, it is the seeking circuits that are firing.
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