First Listen: Julia Holter, 'Ekstasis'

Link:
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/26/147294456/first-listen-julia-holter-ekstasis?ps=cprs

Hiromi On 'Piano Jazz: Rising Stars'

Brings me tears. So beautiful songs. So beautiful heart.

Link:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/02/145520960/hiromi-on-piano-jazz-rising-stars

A Caretaker's Conflict: Love, Resentment Collide

Julia Holter - Ekstasis

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Link:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16352-ekstasis/

Winning Makes People More Aggressive Toward the Defeated

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Link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120229104746.htm

TEDxUIUC - Sherry Turkle - Alone Together

"the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship,"

"If we’re not able to be alone, we’re going to be more lonely."

"Reclaiming conversation. That's the next frontier."

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Link:
http://www.tedxuiuc.com/TEDxUIUC/Talks_Sherry_Turkle.html

Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle talks about her latest book called "Alone Together - Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other".

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Depression: An Evolutionary Byproduct of Immune System?

Very interesting.

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Link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120301103756.htm

Lytro Camera Lets You Pick What's Blurry And What's Not

Cool new technology. Reinvention of camera.

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Link:
http://allthingsd.com/20120229/radical-camera-lets-you-pick-whats-blurry-and-whats-not/

How Marijuana Impairs Memory

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Link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120301143424.htm

Working memory

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Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory

Silent Souls

Road movies take many forms, and "Silent Souls" is the road movie as metaphysical memory and meditation. This profound and immensely touching film in only 75 perfect minutes achieves the profundity of an epic. I read the description (two friends from the ancient Merjan tribe in Russia take a funeral trip involving the wife of one) and wasn't much interested; it sounded like ethnography without impact. Yet not often have I been more deeply touched.

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Limi Feu Fall 2012 Ready-to-Wear

Cute.

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Link:
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2012RTW-LIMIFEU

Pallbearer: Sorrow and Extinction

Link:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16345-sorrow-and-extinction/