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September 04 2010
Fast Trains to Connect US Cities, Alleviate Highway Congestion
The Obama administration back in January promised $8 billion in funding for cities and states to build high-speed, intercity rail projects.
This week, the Department of Transporation issued its specifications for the manufacture of new fast trains, namely double-decker coach, dining, baggage, and business class passenger rail cars that can travel between 79 MPH and up to 220 MPH.
Bi-level rail c...
September 03 2010
Motorola Pulls Out Another Full Page NYT Ad Aimed At Apple’s Head
Oh my, how I love some good ol’ fashion mudslinging.
“Flash Websites? There’s A Phone For That.”
To any ne’er-do-blog-read layman, the full page ad that Motorola just put in the New York Times might just seem oddly worded. To anyone who has even considered considering themselves a gadget geek — or has, at least, turned on their TV anytime in the past year and a half and seen Apple’s “There’s An ...
Concréte Sound System – autechre.bÆts
We start September in fine style with an exclusive guest mix from one of our presenters, Primus Luta under the new guise of his Concréte Sound System (CSS) live setup. The mix is a retrospective/homage to Autechre and the 90′s IDM scene (regardless of what you make of the name). It’s quite a superb mix that deserves your full attention especially if, like me, your knowledge of Autechre’s back c...
September 02 2010
Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast
Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution
String Theory Finally Does Something Useful
Alcohol Is Healthy
My health econ students love to hear that our best data suggests moderate drinking is good for health. New better data continues that trend:
[We study] the association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality over 20 years among 1,824 older adults…. Controlling only for age and gender, compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers had a more than 2 times increased mortality risk, heavy ...
September 01 2010
Love Vs. Conversion
A key pillar of modern morality is the sanctity of romantic love. We reel in horror at the thought that “backward” societies, and our ancestors, arranged marriages without intense emotional romantic love. While it was nice if arranged partners had such romantic feelings, if that did not happen they were not to look for it elsewhere; a life without romantic love could be a fine life.
An...
August 31 2010
Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends
Why Technology Is So Addictive, and How You Can Avoid Tech Burnout [Technology]
Get Past Your Childhood Doubts by Simply Starting [Motivation]
We are the World – Not in Death [Scripts]
Daniel Franke and Andreas Fischer recently finished the post & effects on a video for the band “We are the world” from LA. Using custom scripts for After Effects which generate a mapping of the fft-analysis of the audio data of the song, the distortion of the dancer were controlled using the slitscan technique. The higher the audio values are, the greater is the range of frames sampled for one ...
August 30 2010
Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
MySpace Tries To Pollute Facebook’s Stream
MySpace is launching Facebook sync today, allowing MySpace users to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page. The social network launched a similar functionality for Twitter last year.
Once you’ve synced your Facebook account, you can update status on MySpace and it will automatically be shared with friends on Facebook. MySpace is touting this feature as a big win for the...
August 27 2010
Trace the Dollars Behind the Story with Poligraft
It seems that news pieces are rarely written from a neutral point of view these days, and political news can be especially prone to bias. But how can the average reader, who probably has no idea of the political ties between those mentioned in a news piece, see the larger picture? Sunlight labs, who are dedicated to creating tools that make government data more accessible, have a new service...
Smart Phones Helping to Move Business from the Boardroom to the Bathroom
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Smart phones have drastically changed the world, putting the power of the internet in the palm of our hand. They’ve expanded our horizons, fostering relationships through social networking, keeping us informed up to the minute, and accelerating the pace at which we do business. A recent survey conducted by Kelton Research for Samsung Mobile proves that final point. The survey...
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