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Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)

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According to the article: Drawing on messages posted by more than two million people in 84 countries, researchers discovered that the emotional tone of people’s messages followed a similar pattern not only through the day but also through the week and the changing seasons. The new analysis suggests that our moods are driven in part by a shared underlying biological rhythm that transcends culture and environment.

Read about the study here: Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds – NYTimes.com.

Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer – NYTimes.com

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Photo by Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times. CLOSE-UP Dr. Carl June examined re-engineered T-cells last week in his Philadelphia lab.

This is an amazing story about a possible breakthrough in cancer research using gene therapy.  One the verge of death, a man diagnosed with terminal leukemia made a miraculous recovery at the age of 65 after receiving experimental gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania.

ARTICLE: Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer – NYTimes.com.

Graphic Content | A Fount of Fonts – NYTimes.com

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Great New York Times Magazine piece on the history of fonts:

The computer has put the word “font” into common parlance as a synonym for typeface. But ask most people, even many young graphic designers, where the word comes from, and blank stares abound. (For the record, it’s from the 16th-century French word fonte, which is derived from fonder, or “to melt,” and denotes the action or process of casting or founding.) That is why for the past two years I have made a pilgrimage, with School of Visual Arts students, to Cornuda, Italy, a village about 40 miles north of Venice, near the Palladio-designed Villa Barbaro, to the Tipoteca, a museum devoted to the history of letterpress printing and typefaces, or fonts.

Graphic Content | A Fount of Fonts – NYTimes.com.