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About Me :
Hrmmm.... well, not much to know really.. great family (immediate and extended), great job.. just lucky, I guess. :-)
Location :
North Carolina
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Last Faved :
25 days ago
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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - 25 days ago | it, business, milk
    Solution, or Mess? A Milk Jug for a Green Earth - NYTimes.com

    Technology on the loose. Seems like a no brainer though.. like many good ideas, obvious in hindsight.

    Quoted: A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by Wal-Mart and Costco, keeps the milk fresher when it arrives in stores and keeps costs down.

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 24 2008 | it, exercise, cholesterol
    Second Opinion - From Tim Russert's Death, Some Painful Truths About Heart Disease - NYTimes.com

    Tim Russert sounds a lot like me. Better update my will.

    Quoted: Tim Russert’s fate underlines some painful truths, most notably that cardiology is not the exact science that many people wish it to be.

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2008 | news
    The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com

    This is a pretty cool story. Otlet was born 60 years to soon.

    Quoted: The Mundaneum Museum honors the first concept of a world wide wonder, sketched out by Paul Otlet in 1934 as a global network of “electric telescopes.”

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 11 2008 | it, ice, skin
    Really? - Is It Good to Put Ice on a Skin Burn? - NYTimes.com

    Hmmm, my folk remedy is busted. Bummer.

    Quoted: A batch of ice for a sunburn may seem like the perfect remedy, but is it?

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - May 29 2008 | it, news
    Childhood 'toy' revealed as ancient Persian relic - Yahoo! News

    Remind me to check under my bed for buried treasure...

    Quoted: An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by an English scrap metal dealer is expected to fetch close to a million dollars at auction after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed.

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2008 | it, web, beer
    The Miracle Fruit, a Tease for the Taste Buds - NYTimes.com

    This sounds pretty bizarre.. but could lead to interesting experimental experience.

    Quoted: A small red berry called miracle fruit temporarily rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | it
    Scientific American: Swedish Spruce Is World's Oldest Tree

    Talk about old growth forest...

    Quoted: What's sixteen feet tall and 9,550 years old? It’s the world's oldest tree.

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2008 | it, business, music
    Reading the E-Leaves With Amazon's Bezos

    This seems to me to be an excellent criterion for selecting a spouse. I have no doubt my spouse would easily meet this criterion. She, on the other hand, might not be so fortunate.

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    Portfolio: You had a list for a spouse?

    Bezos: I kind of did. It was a short list. I wanted a woman who could get me out of a third-world prison. It was really just a visualization for resourcefulness, because people who are not resourceful drive me bananas.

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - May 22 2008 | skin, it, news
    6 Tribes of Bacteria, the Good Kind, Found to Be at Home in Inner Elbow - NYTimes.com

    Huh. So I'm a superorganism. Who knew.. but I'm very proud now.

    Quoted: Since humans depend on their microbiome for various essential services, including digestion, a person should really be considered a superorganism, microbiologists assert, consisting of his or her own cells and those of all the commensal bacteria. The bacterial cells also outnumber human cells by 10 to 1, meaning that if cells could vote, people would be a minority in their own body.

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    0 starsSteveS | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2008 | it, space, news
    Scientists See Supernova in Action - New York Times

    Awesome. In the true sense of the word.

    Quoted: A paper being published in Nature recounts the rare observation of a star’s eruption into cataclysmic explosion known as a supernova.

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