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The world isn’t ready for HTML 5 at large just yet, but we can begin preparing for it by using common, semantic selector names (header, nav, section, etc.) — or even new attribute names — derived from HTML 5 within our HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.x documents.

The pattern of the basic curriculum is extraordinarily rigid, and has never been critically reconstructed from the ground up. The schools continue to teach it for no better reason than that it has always been taught.

The endurance running hypothesis, the idea that humans evolved as long-distance runners, may have legs thanks to a new study on toes.

The lesson for GM and its American rivals now struggling to stay in business is that when they launch daring innovations, they need the will and a way to ensure that those ideas don't get drowned by the corporate mainstream.

On the difference between the industrial and academic mindset, as typified by punctuation marks.