Robin Lloyd
News Editor, Scientific American Online, Scientific American
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Editor at Scientific American. Aspiring ninja. All opinions, my fault.
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Economic Recovery, Made in Bangladesh? nyti.ms/18HJZD2
Economic Recovery, Made in Bangladesh?
nytimes.com — A couple of years ago, I was in an industrial park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a textiles executive pitched me on becoming a rich T-shirt manufacturer. It was easy, he said, to teach basic sewing to even the most poorly educated farmers.
check out @erikvance's "Desperately Seeking Sharks" cover story in the June issue of @discovermag discovermagazine.com/2013/june#.UZa…
I like his recipes and overall zeitgeist but ... Mark Bittman Makes Some Bad Science Claims bit.ly/12APYGG
Don’t Let Mark Bittman Cook Your Brain with Bad Science
blogs.discovermagazine.com — Mark Bittman, the popular food writer for the New York Times, has written a column that is almost beyond parody for its unintentional irony. The only way to fully appreciate his lack of self-awareness is to stop and marvel at numerous passages.
RT @evelynjlamb: Who else is going to spend all day looking at websites with lots of numbers on them? Dictionary of Numbers http://t.co/lR3…
Dictionary of Numbers
blog.xkcd.com — I don't like large numbers without context. Phrases like "they called for a $21 billion budget cut" or "the probe will travel 60 billion miles" or "a 150,000-ton ship ran aground" don't mean very much to me on their own. Is that a large ship? Does 60 billion miles take you outside the Solar System?
"@jamesian: What is twitpic equivalent for audio?" @roseveleth do you know?
good morning! youtu.be/BKMD8vI1MaM via @youtube
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
youtube.com — First song from the album Daydream Nation of Sonic Youth, released in 1988. All the rights and the license owned from UMG recordings ltd inc.
@kennybastani hm, although I just hit "play" and some .exe started downloading to my computer which made me nervous. i just deleted tweet
@mkonnikova hm, although I just hit "play" and some .exe started downloading to my computer which made me nervous
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