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August 8, 2015Does Your Rhythm Suck? This Addictive Game Can Help | WIRED
August 4, 2015Running spell-check to identify regulatory variants
August 3, 2015The indulgent world of F. Scott Fitzgerald | New York Post
August 3, 2015The indulgent world of…Fitzgerald
http://nypost.com/2015/07/18/cocktails-castles-and-canoodling-the-decadent-world-of-f-scott-fitzgerald/ What the #GreatGatsby’s E & W Egg look like now: F. Scott’s modest home at ~$3M
The real locations of West & East Egg + The Great Gatsby’s author’s real home, currently valued at $3M
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It was in this atmosphere of money — old and new, elegant and garish — that the idea for Fitzgerald’s most celebrated novel, “The Great Gatsby,” took shape.
The Fitzgerald house is up for sale for $2.999 million. It’s been expanded over the years, but it still looks like it did in 1922.
The Gold Coast itself does not. What was once a pastoral escape for the superrich has become a sprawling suburb, with condominiums occupying tracts of land that were once polo fields.
But the geography is the same, and here and there you can catch glimpses of places that may have inspired “The Great Gatsby.”
Fitzgerald famously named the two peninsulas that jet out into the Long Island Sound “East Egg” and “West Egg.”
He liked the word egg, calling friends “colossal eggs” and enemies “unspeakable eggs,” writes biographer Jeffrey Meyers.
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Spin to separate | The Economist
August 3, 2015Do You Know What Your Time Is Really Worth? – WSJ
August 2, 2015Do You Know What Your Time Is Really Worth? http://www.wsj.com/articles/do-you-know-what-your-time-is-really-worth-1437500727 According to ClearerThinking.org, reading this article cost me >$25
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August 2, 2015Cystic Fibrosis
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Woe to that child which when kissed on the forehead tastes salty. He is bewitched and soon must die. This adage, from northern European folklore, is an early reference to the common genetic disease recognized today as cystic fibrosis. As the saying implies, the disorder once routinely killed children in infancy and is often identifiable by excessive salt in sweat.
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