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Ones and Zeros: Yahoo's "Six Degrees of Separation" Experiment, Jodi Foster is Serious About SETI, Why You Suck at Multitasking

h3. One: Jonah Lehrer tries to end the "marijuana makes you stupid" debate ("Wired":http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/does-marijuana-make-you-stupid/): bq. Once these population differences were corrected for, the long-term effects of...
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One: Jonah Lehrer tries to end the “marijuana makes you stupid” debate (Wired):

Once these population differences were corrected for, the long-term effects of marijuana use disappeared: the scientists found that "there were no significant between group differences." In other words, the amount of pot consumed had no measurable impact on cognitive performance. The sole exception was performance on a test of short-term verbal memory, in which "current heavy users" performed slightly worse than former users. The researchers conclude that, contrary to earlier findings, the mind altering properties of marijuana are ephemeral and flee.

Zero: “Retweet”, “sexting” and “cyberbullying” are officially words (Telegraph)

One: David Byrne’s fake iPhone apps will be in a show at Pace Gallery called “Social Media” (Boing Boing)

Zero: Come now, we did not need a Taiwanese animation about Spotify.

One: Jodie Foster is serious about SETI (Beta Beat)

Zero: Yahoo is testing the six degrees of separation idea on Facebook (Engadget)

One: There are apparently fake gladiators at the Coliseum, but they’re armed with swords and they’re not afraid to use them (Guardian)

Zero: Brain bottlenecks probably the reason you suck at multitasking (Ars)

One: A Q&A with that one guy who has figured out how to turn augmented reality into art (TCP)

Zero: Michelle Bachman marches out on TV interview because interviewer asked her about some crazy things she wrote about in her book (NPR)

One: The CD is almost really old (Mental Floss)

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