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How to Tame Your Nightmares healthjournal@wsj.com JULY 20, 2010 In the new movie, “Inception,” a master thief is able to infiltrate peoples’ dreams and steal their subconscious secrets—even plant a dream idea they’ll think is their own. As fantastical as that seems, an evolving area of sleep research holds that it is possible for people [...]

From: The Best Shot: Cell or Camera? By ISAAC ARNSDORF, The Wall Street Journal, JUNE 23, 2010 VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE With even the most basic cellphones able to snap photos, camera makers are launching a new campaign to convince buyers that a cellphone is no substitute for a good camera… Industry-wide, digital-camera sales are [...]

Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky. From:  The Wall Street Journal, CLAY SHIRKY;  JUNE 5, 2010 But of course, that’s what always happens. Every increase in freedom to create or consume media, from paperback books to YouTube, alarms people accustomed to the [...]

By:  By ELLEN BARRY, The N.Y Times;   Published: June 3, 2010 (CLICK FOR FULL ARTICLE) …In August 2008, it was a crime so outrageous that it seemed to demand action. Magomed Yevloyev was openly feuding with the region’s leader, Murat M. Zyazikov, when the two men happened to board the same flight from Moscow. Barely [...]

From: Schumacher’s New Ride by JONATHAN CLEGG, The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2010 For Mr. Schumacher, who had less than a fortnight of track-time to test his Mercedes under new preseason restrictions introduced this year, even tiny adjustments could dramatically transform his race-day performance, said Martin Brundle, a former Formula One driver who is [...]

From:  Jon Boone in Kabul;  guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 April 2010 17.30 BST (LINK HERE) Feminists in Afghanistan are forced to operate as underground movement, often using the burqa as a convenient disguise… “I don’t like the burqa, but sometimes I have no choice when I’m moving around Kabul – it’s a great disguise,” she says. [...]

Geely, Ford Sign Volvo Deal BY MATTHEW DOLAN AND NORIHIKO SHIROUZ, March 28, 2010(view article) China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. bought Volvo cars from Ford Motor Co. on Sunday for $1.8 billion, a landmark agreement designed to elevate the Chinese company’s profile onto the global automotive stage. Geely’s acquisition of Volvo offers the latest [...]

Prog-rock band take record label to court for allegedly breaking terms of contract regarding individual track sales. Sean Michaels, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 March 2010 10.17 GMT (view article) Pink Floyd are suing their record label EMI, claiming that it has no right to sell their songs except as part of full albums. According to a [...]

By JONAH LEHRER, March 19, 2010, 8:30 pm (view article) When I can’t sleep, I think about what I’m missing. I glance over at my wife and watch her eyelids flutter. I listen to the steady rhythm of her breath. I wonder if she’s dreaming and, if so, what story she’s telling to herself to [...]

Vladimir Nabokov’s unfinished novella, The Original of Laura, is being published despite the author’s instructions that it be destroyed after his death. Martin Amis confronts the tortuous questions posed by a genius in decline. Martin Amis, The Guardian, Saturday 14 November 2009 (view article) Vladimir Nabokov in Switzerland, in about 1975. Photograph: Horst Tappe/Getty Images Language [...]