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DailyXY hero Arnold Schwarzenegger (seriously, check out his book) is finally on YouTube, which is to be expected, considering how he took reddit by storm earlier this year. Anyway, he’s promoting something called YouTube Comedy Week. We’d have thought that was every week on YouTube, what with all the people … Read More
If you aren’t a die-hard fan, it’s a bit tough to get that excited about Star Wars action figures . . . or toys, if we’re really honest. This is different, though. The Star Wars D-Tech Me Stormtrooper ($100) has your face. That’s right; you sit down for a ten-minute … Read More
Commander Chris Hadfield’s time aboard the International Space Station has been pretty remarkable. His twitter account has been an amazing series of pictures, which give all of his followers a little bit of the overview effect, and he’s been doing a tonne of interesting things while he’s up there, aside … Read More
How Doctors Die – The Health Care Blog Faced with terminal illness, most doctors don’t get more care than the average person; they get less. Acquainted with the limits of modern medicine, they opt out of ICU heroics, instead choosing to go gently. Hands Off – New York Magazine A … Read More
Most commencement speeches aren’t worth remembering. This is Water, an address delivered in 2005 to Kenyon College by novelist David Foster Wallace, is one of the few exceptions. After Wallace died in 2008, the speech (of which you can read a full transcription here) took on a life of it’s own … Read More
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