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  5. On this day in 09, GM filed for Chapter 11, becoming one of the largest U.S. industrial companies to file for bankruptcy protection—via WSJ about 13 hours ago via web
  6. The art of fiction: George Orwell spectator.co.uk/books/blog/786… 4:24 PM May 31st via web
  7. Anticipating the World’s Most Expensive Natural Disaster american.com/archive/2012/m… (I'll probably post on this too) 3:58 PM May 31st via web
  8. Elderly people have a distinct smell healthland.time.com/2012/05/31/old… 12:54 PM May 31st via web
  9. The Amazon Effect thenation.com/article/168125… #longreads 10:47 AM May 31st via web
  10. @stianwestlake very true. 10:32 AM May 31st via web in reply to stianwestlake
  11. Mercury is the only metal that exists as a liquid at room temperature. 10:14 AM May 31st via web
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  13. Everyone Lies. Dan Ariely Explains Why goo.gl/fb/G7Sqz 6:06 AM May 31st via Google
  14. We care about fairness and sacrifice economic well-bing to enforce it. But, fairness is clouded by self-serving bias newyorker.com/talk/financial… 5:30 AM May 31st via TweetDeck
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  16. How a Virus Conquers the World, Animated brainpickings.org/index.php/2012… 4:40 AM May 31st via web
  17. @neilpearse Neil, if you start a twit with someone's name, it only goes to that person. I saw this, but I'm not sure your followers did :) 4:30 AM May 31st via web in reply to neilpearse
  18. @zugzwanged Thanks!! 5:09 PM May 30th via web in reply to zugzwanged
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  20. @jranck Thanks for the mention Jody. 5:09 PM May 30th via web in reply to jranck
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