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		<title>Capture both sunlight and heat to create electricity &#8211; achieve record-breaking efficiency!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Current photovoltaic cells are not too good at capturing the sun&#8217;s energy &#8211; on average less than 20% efficient, and maxing out at about 40%. A new design hits 47% efficiency under certain conditions, by capturing the heat in sunlight, rather than the light.
The cell combines a photovoltaic process that turns light into electricity with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life was hard for designers in the days before computers &#8211; great views though!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Make Magazine blog, a fascinating video &#8211; originally a film, clearly &#8211; about the design of a basic consumer good &#8211; a whiskey decanter &#8211; in the 1960s. Pretty long and painstaking process, from concepts &#8211; drawn by hand by a whole team of designers &#8211; to prototypes, cast by hand from hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Edge Foundation&#8217;s New Science of Morality Conference is online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Edge Foundation, John Brockman&#8217;s virtual thinktank of leading scientists and thinkers, held a conference on the cognitive basis of morality in July. The proceedings are coming online now. Some very interesting stuff! The point of the conference was to surface the type of progress that science is making on understanding all facets of human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People still smarter than computers at some tasks &#8211; like optimizing protein folding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computers and gamers worked together to create optimal protein structures using the FoldIt online game.
&#8230; people were very good about detecting a hydrophobic amino acid when it stuck out from the protein&#8217;s surface, instead of being buried internally, and they were willing to rearrange the structure&#8217;s internals in order to tuck the offending amino acid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GoDaddy supports Wordpress Multiuser, but you need a dedicated IP</title>
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Image by Getty Images via @daylife



I have four blogs that I manage (none of them are burning down the internet in popularity, to be honest) and I&#8217;d love to get them all onto one install of WordPress. It&#8217;s going to cost me a bit more, though &#8211; I&#8217;ll have to add Dedicated IP to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I lived in Brooklyn, I&#8217;d definitely want this job! (Etsy Product Manager)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m actually an Etsy vendor &#8211; I have a store called TurningCat (turningcat.etsy.com) where I sell handmade pens I make in my home shop. For me this job would be an awesome connection between what I do for work and what I do for renewal. 

Etsy is seeking a talented Product Manager to coordinate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bret Simmons&#8217; Personal Branding Series &#8211; Thumbs Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been enjoying Bret Simmons&#8217; series about personal branding lately. In a series of posts he covers why personal branding is so important (The Google Background Check), how to get started (Personal Branding: Some Simple First Steps), and what you&#8217;re trying to accomplish &#8211; that is, to show that you Consistently Contribute Value, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let The Pedants Get You Down</title>
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On Language &#8211; Defending Against Language Pedants &#8211; NYTimes.com

So I say outpedant the pedants, and allow yourself to gluttonously revel in the linguistic improprieties of yore as you familiarize yourself with the nearly unique enormity of the gloriously mistaken heritage that our literature is comprised of. 

Ammon Shea tells the pedants to take a chill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X-Post &#8211; How To Talk To Your Mom About Product Management: Optimus Prime Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just posted an article on the Innovation Jam, Accept Software&#8217;s blog, with yet another shot at a good metaphor for product management:
Product management is a complicated and multi-faceted activity, and each of these concepts offer useful guidelines as we strive to create successful and useful products that kick ass. But there are several other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile With Cell Phones?</title>
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Do you remember this situation? You made some plans with friends, got to the meeting place, and they weren&#8217;t there. You hung around waiting, they never show, having gotten a better offer (&#8220;party with Bono, dude!&#8221;). Or they show up an hour later (&#8220;had a flat tire, dude!&#8221;). Or I don&#8217;t show up (&#8220;got in [...]]]></description>
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