Author: timbatchelder
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Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy
Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy Tomio Geron, forbes.com On paper, Frederic Larson is just one data point in five years of U.S. government statistics showing underemployment in dozens of industries and stagnant income growth across the board. The 63-year-old photographer with two child… RT @Techmeme: Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of…
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Can a High-Tech ‘Biological Passport’ End Sports Doping
Can a High-Tech ‘Biological Passport’ End Sports Doping Forever? Sam Laird, mashable.com Lance Armstrong says it helped scare him off performance-enhancing drugs forever. It’s already been implemented in track and field as well as cycling, and world tennis authorities are now considering adding it to their arsenal as well.It’s called … http://flip.it/ZpQkh Related articles WADA…
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Could public urination be good for the environment?
Could public urination be good for the environment? By Susie Cagle, grist.org “Pee planters,” fruit fences, and LED hopscotch might sound like a normal weekend in San Francisco, but the Urban Prototyping Festival isn’t exactly aiming for normal. Click to embiggen. Part art-installation festival, part pop-… RT @grist: Could public urination be good for the…
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Out of the cage and onto the grass
Out of the cage and onto the grass: Helping pastured eggs go mainstream By Claire Thompson, grist.org Most laying hens in the U.S. are raised in cages with up to eight other birds, with barely enough space to turn around, much less walk. They eat antibiotic-laced feed made from genetically engineered grain and the ground-up…
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Williams-Sonoma’s ‘Agrarian’ products
Williams-Sonoma’s ‘Agrarian’ products take pretentious and self-satisfied to new heights By Sarah Miller, grist.org Have you always wanted to live off the land, but you were burdened with an overfull trust fund and too many butlers? Well, say hello to Williams-Sonoma Agrarian, your portal for spending gazillions of dollars on backyard farming. Wit… http://flip.it/Jhvml Related…
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Fart-eating underpants
Fart-eating underpants could do a lot for air pollution By Sarah Miller, grist.org I have been wanting to alter my rather closed-minded opinion that Japanese culture is really weird, but I guess I’m going to have to say sayonara to that idea, at least for today — because a Japanese textile company has invented… RT…
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Best bed-bug poison may be Merck meds
Best bed-bug poison may be Merck meds for humans By Susie Cagle, grist.org From hotel beds to movie theater seats, it seems bed bugs are absolutely everywhere these days (and if they’re not, oh god, they might be, so you’ll drive yourself insane investigating every little speck you spot). Standard methods for… RT @grist: Best…
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Buy or die: The survivalist approach
Buy or die: The survivalist approach to climate doom By Susie Cagle, grist.org Climate change is coming! Quick, buy more stuff!! That’s the advice from the New York Times Magazine feature “How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia.” Wait, don’t laugh yet — we’ll get to that. First, meet Ron Douglas, a… RT @grist: A…
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The world has ended, or just about
The world has ended, or just about. Now, what wine do you drink with broiled rats and steamed slug? By Sarah Miller, grist.org Finally, someone has written an important article about something that actually means something to me: what kind of wine we are going to drink with the disgusting vermin we have to eat…
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Apparently, charging $7 for a cup of coffee makes suckers believe it tastes better
Apparently, charging $7 for a cup of coffee makes suckers believe it tastes better By Sarah Miller, grist.org Starbucks has come out with some super fancy new coffee that costs $7. Supposedly it tastes really awesome. (At that price it better taste like God’s balls.) Comedian Jimmy Kimmel was skeptical that it was really all…
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Your couch is poisoning you
Your couch is poisoning you By Susie Cagle, grist.org Have you been sleeping on the couch to avoid your toxic mattress? Well, stop that. Because your couch is probably poisoning you right now. Unless you’re at work, in which case right when you get home. That’s the takeaway fro… RT @grist: A new study has…
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Toxic toys may be poisoning our best friends
Toxic toys may be poisoning our best friends By Susie Cagle, grist.org My favorite people to buy holiday presents for are animal people. They are always so grateful! But sometimes maybe they shouldn’t be. A new study out of Texas Tech finds that the chemicals in hard plastic bumper dog toys readily leac… RT @grist:…
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Russia had a three-day traffic jam
Russia had a three-day traffic jam By Sarah Miller, grist.org There was a three-day-long traffic jam in Russia over the weekend. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snowstorm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Now, one might think a country… RT @grist: Russia had a…
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Garbage cans turned into living containers
garbage cans turned into living containers by philipp stingl P.Stingl, designboom.com garbage cans turned into ‘living containers’ by philipp stingl as the demographic evolution in germany and other countries becomes more dramatic, social systems will collapse and from the ashes an aging society will rise, marked by crime, sickn… garbage dumpsters turned into living containers…
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This device tells your phone how gross the air is to breathe
This device tells your phone how gross the air is to breathe By Sarah Miller, grist.org Do you remember in The Big Lebowski when TBL himself says to the Dude, “You told Brandt on the phone, and Brandt told me?” Well, that’s kind of the same way that this device, called CitiSense, works. It measures…
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America’s fastest-growing state
America’s fastest-growing state: North Frackota By Philip Bump, grist.org According to the weirdly huge text on the Census Bureau’s website, the fastest-growing state in the country in 2011 was North Dakota, which grew at a rate of 2.17 percent. The second fastest-growing state was the District of Columbia, wh… RT @grist: America’s fastest-growing state: North…
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Chicken farmers replace antibiotics with oregano
Chicken farmers replace antibiotics with oregano oil By Sarah Miller, grist.org Animals raised to be food get diseases easily. There’s a lot of them hanging around in one place, waiting to die, so it’s not terribly surprising that they get sick. Precautions have to be taken, which is why these animals have long b… RT…
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Concord, Mass., is the first city to ban plastic water bottles
Concord, Mass., is the first city to ban plastic water bottles By Sarah Miller, grist.org Leave it to Massachusetts: trailblazers in gay marriage and just all-around good old-fashioned community-minded liberal folks. Mitt Romney notwithstanding, can the world really be surprised that the adorable Massachusetts town of… RT @grist: Did you know Americans use 1,500 bottles…
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People will go out of their way to hit turtles with cars, because people are jerks
People will go out of their way to hit turtles with cars, because people are jerks By Sarah Miller, grist.org A student at Clemson University made a disturbing discovery when he placed a rubber turtle in the road and spent an hour watching what passing cars would do. Out of 257 cars that passed, seven…
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Supermarket is saving $80 million a year just by putting doors on its refrigerators
Supermarket is saving $80 million a year just by putting doors on its refrigerators By Sarah Miller, grist.org You know how when you were a teenager (or a 20-something living on your parents’ couch) and you stood around with the refrigerator door hanging open, and your mom would be all “hey, I’m not paying to…
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Rupert Murdoch’s perceptions about climate
Rupert Murdoch still stupid about climate, now thinks pollution is good for trees By Sarah Miller, grist.org Close your eyes and imagine a world without Rupert Murdoch. Ahhhhhhhh. OK, you can open your eyes now. Sorry. Murdoch still exists. He owns everything. And he still doesn’t know dick about climate science. In fact, he now…
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Honest junk food advertisements show you what kind of crap you’re really eating
Honest junk food advertisements show you what kind of crap you’re really eating By Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Graphic designer Laura P. created these posters for the nasty ingredients hiding in some of your favorite junk foods. Would Twinkies and hot dogs be as popular if these were plastered in bus stations and movie theaters? Well,…
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