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| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 31, 2013 |
| | 30 Beautifully Haunting Shipwrecks From Around the World | | Naval history is full of fatal accidents and wartime losses. Even knowing that, it's astonishing to think that, according to a United Nations report, there are more than 3 million shipwrecks on the ocean floor. | |  |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 29, 2013 |
| | Sotheby's Top 10 Art Sales of 2012 — Photos - WSJ.com | | Sotheby's sold $4.4 billion of items that include everything from artwork to wine and jewelry in 2012, according to early 2013 estimates from the auction house's investor-relations group. Take a look at the 10 priciest artworks. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 21, 2013 |
| | Google CEO travels to North Korea | | This blog post "Sophie In North Korea" is a wonderful, funny and well written synopsis of Eric Smidt and his daughter Sophie'srecent trip to No. Korea. | | |
| | | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 19, 2013 |
| | Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker! | Flightradar24 is the best live flight tracker that shows air traffic in real time. Best coverage and cool features!
Click on the link flightradar24.com and you will see light yellow airplanes. Click on any one and it will identify the airline, flight number, from-to, altitude, airspeed, and track. The info is updated every 10 seconds. Drag your cursor and move to any country you would like to see." | | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 14, 2013 |
| | Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2013 | | Your education doesn't have to stop once you leave school—freedom from the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We've put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this spring for our fourth term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your life with free, online college-level classes. Let's get started. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 11, 2013 |
| | Collection: Tupper Scrapbook Collection | | During his life, William Vaughn Tupper (1835–1898) created scrapbooks to document his travels. This collection of 46 scrapbooks contains annotated photographs and drawings from the Tupper Family’s travels in Great Britain, Europe, and North Africa from 1891–1894. Most of the photographs appear to have been purchased by the travelers at major stopping-places and sites. They reveal the business that local photographers did with well-to-do travelers making a grand tour. [More] | PATRICIA
Very cool photos--can be seen at massive resolution toby. the Egypt file is amazing. Love |
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| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 11, 2013 |
| | Becker Collection--Civil war drawings | | The Becker Archive contains approximately 650 hitherto unexhibited and undocumented drawings by Joseph Becker and his colleagues, nineteenth-century artists who worked as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly observing, drawing, and sending back for publication images of the Civil War, the construction of the railroads, the laying of the transatlantic cable in Ireland, the Chinese in the West, the Indian wars, the Chicago fire, and numerous other aspects of nineteenth-century American culture. These “first-hand” drawings, most of which were never published, document in lively and specific ways key developments in the history of America as it struggled to establish its national identity. [More] | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 08, 2013 |
| | EdX--online Harvard (and others) Courses | | EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard. [More] | PATRICIA
Anyone can take harvard classes for free. |
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| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 01, 2013 |
| | 63 Essential Things to Learn Before 2012 Ends | 63 Essential Things you should have learned in 2012.
Gizmodo
We learned a lot this year—and we shared a lot of it with you. Here's the complete collection of everything we explained, defined, spelled out and broke down in 2012. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Dec 31, 2012 |
| | The Worst Moments in Technology in 2012 | TIME.com | | When the technology historians of the distant future look back on 2012, they may remember it as, above all, the year of the apology. Tech companies kept expressing regret for stuff: product flaws, privacy abuses, advertising deceptions and much, much more. Apple, Dell, Google, Microsoft and Nokia were among the industry giants that issued at least one apology. Even seemingly innocent bystanders such as Spike Lee and KitchenAid got sucked into the vortex of remorse. [More] | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Dec 25, 2012 |
| | The 20 Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2012 | TechCrunch | Editor's note: Brad Spirrison is the managing editor of mobile app discovery services Appolicious.
Nearly six years after the debut of the iPhone, mobile applications are beginning to mature. The best mobile apps of 2012 - with a few notable exceptions - are more about refined practicali.. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Dec 21, 2012 |
| | Well Done Stuff ! | | This website catalogues Very Cool stuff that functions well. | PATRICIA
Toby, there are some style things we might want to look at on this page as well. Maybe on the side? The way we do keywords on the news page? |
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| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Dec 13, 2012 |
| | Best Business Gadgets of 2012 | Inc.com | | This past year was one of the best in recent memory for innovative new gadgets to help you run your operation smoothly, keep employees happy, and stay connected. Check out these nine products--all stand-outs in their respective categories.--John Brandon | | |
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