Monthly Archives: August 2010

Every Picture on Display at MOMA on 10 April 2010

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 27, 2010

April 10 is Beth’s birthday. A belated “habir” Ms. Beth… Thanks to Sheila Lennon and her source, Dermot Casey, for the link. (Click here for a full screen version.)

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In the company of men

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 20, 2010

There’s a post today at Time Goes By that hits me where I live. A reader named Bill writes asking: “Any thoughts on how men can find new groups of friends?” Like Bill, I’m an older guy, comfortable in the company of women and generally uneasy with the superficial bullshit that seems to color men’s [...]

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Attention Deficit

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 16, 2010

“Instead of thinking about ‘emptiness’ as a lack or something missing, think about it as space, as possibility, as your place to expand. And then welcome the emptiness around you.” — Karen Murphy Nice distinction. here’s something tangential… Instead of thinking of attention deficit as a disability or an inability to focus, we might think [...]

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Windchime Time Lapse of Perseids Meteor Shower

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 14, 2010

Image by Nomad Art Works I missed Perseid sky watching this week due to mosquitoes and humidity. Thanks to @NASA_GoddardPix on twitter I have a couple of great images available for my vicarious enjoyment. Bonus! They have a link to a high def video of the recent solar activity, the coronal mass ejection or super-flare [...]

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Clonal moo juice

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 13, 2010

Savvy dairymen in Britain may be adulterating the nation’s milk supply with something that looks like milk, tastes like milk, and comes from an animal that moos like a milker, but leaves regulators and ethical arbiters unsure of whether or not to permit its consumption. Here and there around the world, cloned cows and their [...]

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What You Need to Know About the Gulf Oil Disaster

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 5, 2010

By Barbara O’Brien Every day, news about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gets worse. This week we learned that a large section of the Gulf could become a “dead zone” as oil-eating microorganisms proliferate and suck oxygen out of the water. Whether anything positive could somehow come from this disaster remains [...]

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The French Fry and the Polluted Sky

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 4, 2010

Last month at bloomberg.com, Andy Grove offered his perspectives on innovation and job creation and America’s failure to link the two. (See “How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late.”) Grove led Intel to global dominance in the microprocessor market, and he’s uniquely qualified to talk about the conditions that have stunted American [...]

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By Frank Paynter | Published: August 3, 2010

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (aka “the FBI,” an agency with a confusing dual reporting relationship, working for both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence, partnering with–but not responsible to–the Department of Homeland Security, and for 48 years the exclusive fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover, whose notorious use of files [...]

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