• The long, strange history of Teflon...
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• The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began
  "In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began."
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• The revolutionary concept of standard sizes only dates to the 1920s
  Ernst Neufert and 'Architects Data'.
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• The Value of the Public Domain
  "This paper calls for a re-orientation of innovation and information policy. In our current paradigm, monopoly rights, in the form of intellectual property, displace all else from our thinking on this subject making access a peripheral issue."
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• Thermonator : the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog
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• Visual sound : Mysteries of the human voice revealed by Megan Watts Hughes
  "From 1885, Megan began to visualise her voice. She created a scientific instrument, the eidophone, which she would sing into; it would capture an image of the sound using sand and powders."
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• What's the difference between real and perceived value?
  "Marketer Rory Sutherland says advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. He says perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider 'real' value."
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• Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things
  "Known in Japanese as 'shisa kanko', pointing-and-calling works on the principle of associating one’s tasks with physical movements and vocalizations to prevent errors by “raising the consciousness levels of workers”"
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• Xanadu Basics 1a
  "The original hypertext concept of the 1960s got lost on the way to the Web--and all current document standards oppose it." (Ted Nelson)
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