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January 29th, 2012

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Fox News Vs Muppets

Entertainment is the most powerful political weapon.

January 28th, 2012

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January 28th, 2012

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Textual DRAMA

January 28th, 2012

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The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational. It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.

Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - NYTimes.com (via courtenaybird)

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January 28th, 2012

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LEGO Minifig At The Edge Of Space on A Balloonprostheticknowledge:

LEGO Minifig At The Edge Of Space on A Balloon

Two teenage students build a balloon, mounted with four cameras and a LEGO figure, and launched it.

From thestar.com:

Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft.

Their jerry-rigged contraption recorded the Lego man’s journey from a soccer pitch in Newmarket to the stratosphere — high enough to see their two-inch astronaut floating above curvature of our planet, clutching a Canadian flag with the blackness of space behind him.

The project cost $400 and took four months of free Saturdays. It wasn’t a school assignment. They just thought it would be cool.

“We didn’t really believe we could do it until we did,” says Ho.

More info about the story can be found here, photos here

The democracy of outer space

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January 27th, 2012

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Even though the data around productivity has proved pretty remorseless, humans have found the message hard to accept. It seems so logical that two units of work will produce twice the output. Logical but wrong. The critical measure of work isn’t and never should be input but output. What matters isn’t how many hours your team puts in, but the quality and quantity of work they produce.

The Truth About Sleep & Productivity | Inc.com (via infoneer-pulse)

Forward this to your boss, right now. #itsnotmyfault

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January 27th, 2012

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Love this.

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January 27th, 2012

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noraleah:

A cabin in a Bushwick loft that you can stay in for $115 a night, breakfast included. What a creative use of space!

(Via Cup of Jo.)

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January 27th, 2012

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TED Prize 2012: Crowdsourcing "City 2.0"

smarterplanet:

Today, TED announced the winner of the 2012 TED Prize: the City 2.0. Breaking from their tradition of recognizing an individual global innovator, TED is embracing the concept of crowd-sourcing urbanism (an idea we obviously support at Open Source Cities). The organizers…

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January 26th, 2012

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laughingsquid:

FBI releases plans to monitor social networks

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January 26th, 2012

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NASA releases hi-res images of Earth, guys!

January 26th, 2012

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Need to have these. …i could expense them right?? My eyes are my primary professional tool.

ridikkuluz:

Retro Super Future Glasses

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January 26th, 2012

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latimes:

New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.

Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: Chad Slattery, Northrop Grumman

LEGGO? No! Drone! —A.P.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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January 26th, 2012

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HEALTH TREND: EVERYONE CARES IF YOU EAT* LIKE SHIT

nxtfuture:

The Halo effect, a cognitive bias in which one trait influences another for a person, also applies to groups of people. That is, the more attractive your friends, the more attractive you seem. The less attractive your friends, though, the less attractive you seem (source).

The people around you have a vested interest in your health: employers and insurers are offering incentives for healthy behaviors and penalties for unhealthy habits; and the people you spend time with have more to do with your health than you think.

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January 25th, 2012

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Income Inequality is Bad for Society. REALLY BAD.

Societies with more income inequality have:

Higher infant death rates

Higher rates of mental illness

Higher incidence of drug use

Higher school drop out rates

Imprison a larger proportion of their population

Higher rate of obesity

Individuals are less likely to be in a different social class than their parents

Trust others less

Higher rates of homicide

Give less in foreign aid

Worse child well-being

If you’re in the USA guess where your numbers skew…

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HEALTH TREND: EVERYONE CARES IF YOU EAT* LIKE SHIT

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