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Ex-Marlboro Man Dies From Smoking-Related Disease, Is Sherlock Holmes A Good Detective?, Why I Hate @HistoryInPics, Meet The Only Female Volcano-Scientist Trekking Through North Korea, Google To Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind For $400M

The Daily Digg

Monday, January 27, 2014


LATER APPEARED IN ANTI-SMOKING ADS
Ex-Marlboro Man Dies From Smoking-Related Disease
foxnews.com
Eric Lawson, a working actor who portrayed the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72.


NOTHING LIKE FIRST-HAND EVIDENCE
Is Sherlock Holmes A Good Detective?
thedailybeast.com
Without Arthur Conan Doyle making him solve everything with ease, does his reasoning stand up to reasoning today.


NOT REALLY HISTORY
Why I Hate @HistoryInPics
sarahwerner.net
For months now I've been stewing about how much I hate @HistoryInPics and their ilk (@HistoryInPix, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics, etc.)—twitter streams that do nothing more than post "old" pictures and little tidbits of captions for them. And when I say "nothing more" that's precisely what I mean.


LAVA LADY
Meet The Only Female Volcano-Scientist Trekking Through North Korea
medium.com
North Korea has a volcano. About a millennium ago, it had one of the largest eruptions in Earth's history. You probably didn't know that. And that's okay. Because North Korea is so closed off to outsiders that most people — even some scientists — have no idea.


DEEP POCKETS
Google To Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind For $400M
recode.net
Google is shelling out $400 million to buy a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind.