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5 Things I Learned This Week:

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#1. Artificial intelligence will soon take over the world, as evidenced by Watson the Champion Supercomputer on Jeopardy.  Apparently we should set our calendars for 2045.  This is the date humans become irrelevant, immortal, or both.  Not sure what the Mayan calendar has to say about this. 


#2. Artificiality (in all its forms) seems to be where it's at. If you can't compete on a cerebral level, try a corporeal one. Case in point: Camille Grammar's new gig on CNN and The Kardashian-palooza that was (apparently) 2010.  Further proof that Joan Rivers has just been a woman ahead of her time.   

 #3. Two fascinating men descended upon the Capital of the Confederacy this weekend.  World renowned Picasso exhibit premiered at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Anderson Cooper spoke at the Richmond Forum.  I'm not sure about Cooper's taste in women but apparently Picasso dug the curvy chicks. Extra eyeballs and displaced nostrils were apparently a plus as well.  

#4. Borders files for bankruptcy and everyone wonders who is to blame? Is it the big box stores? the Internet, ecommerce, and ebooks? The publishing industry? The lack of people reading?  I think we should blame libraries.  I mean, who do they think they are?  Letting people borrow books for free?  That's just CRAZY!

#5. Jazz virtuoso George Shearing died this week at the age of 91.  In a week where newcomer Esperanza Spalding beat out teen hearthrob Justin Bieber for Best New Artist, it's safe to say that America's musical genre is still very much alive.  George has just gone to join his buddies for that great jam session in the sky. 

What was your favorite news story this week?  
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  1. FaiqaFebruary 22, 2011 at 1:56 PM

    Artificiality (in all its forms) seems to be where it's at. If you can't compete on a cerebral level, try a corporeal one.

    I have to admit, friend, that sentence kind of made me swoon.

    My favorite news story... something important happened in Libya last week, right? Did the Kardashians visit Tripoli, something like that?

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  2. RachelFebruary 22, 2011 at 7:01 PM

    @Faiqa: Isn't Tripoli the site of the next Real Housewives series?

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