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...pipe and putting them back together. “Picture a radio in the olden days that is full of wires soldered together,” Sanes says. “Imagine slicing it into slices one millimeter thick. With each slice you can see a little shred of each part...You need to put them together to figure out the whole wiring diagram.”But the simple concept requires massive volumes of data—far beyond the capacity of current technologies. According to Sanes, mapping a human brain would demand enough storage space to host...
...first song memorializing the musicians - Eddie Cochran's "Three Stars" - was recorded just one day after their deaths. But Don McLean's 1971 single "American Pie" turned the plane crash into a metaphor for the moment when the United States lost its last shred of innocence. McLean envisioned that last Buddy Holly concert in Clear Lakes, Iowa: teenagers in pink carnations and pick-up trucks, dancing and falling in love and dancing some more. The snow fell silently outside as the country teetered on the brink of the 1960s; no one in the ballroom had any idea what would happen...
...Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein who was responsible for Somalia's one significant piece of statesmanship in the last year. He entered into a peace deal with Somali Islamic factions that have come together under the umbrella Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia. Somalis greeted it with a shred of hope, even though the move was mostly symbolic. The Islamist campaign is now being run by another group, al-Shabaab, which has made a steady comeback since Ethiopian troops pushed them from the capital, Mogadishu, on Christmas Eve two years ago. (See the top 10 news stories...
...also hate hugs! Clearly, the Jonases understood my obsession with personal space.And thus the ironic love slowly became a little less ironic. Through it all, I reassured myself that at least I didn’t watch High School Musical. It was my last shred of dignity, Jonas be damned.So it was under duress that I was coerced into finally watching HSM. I steeled myself against it. “No matter how many times they sing in unison, do not get sucked in,” I told myself. “They are engineered by Disney. They?...
...Where this particular franchise is concerned, it’s not the filmmakers who have the credibility. It’s Jigsaw. Nowhere in “Saw” is there one shred of doubt that every single one of Jigsaw’s victims deserves what he gets. We don’t delight in their distress per se, but there is a wholesome schadenfreude in seeing the guilty squirm...