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It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy. It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont… http://flpbd.it/LDbMq…
Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com 3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic. Life started with bacteria. By some cosmic chance, amino acids became DNA and proteins, which together became life. It took roughly 2 billion more years for things to get more… http://flpbd.it/Xrm83…
Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future U.S. Department of Energy, earthtechling.com Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy. Imagine it is a scorching hot summer day, and your smart phone beeps, asking if you’d like it to raise your home thermost… http://flpbd.it/5ps28 Related articles…
Slime moulds achieve global domination By Adam Mann, wired.co.uk Science By traveling from city to city on a map, microscopic protists known as slime moulds have figured out how to take over the world. Starting in Beijing, the slime mould Physarum polycephalum developed a well-organised… http://flpbd.it/WtfT9 Related articles Why the Future May Belong to Slime…
The cities of the future will be grown, not built By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk Technology The cities of the future will have waste-to-energy plants, not shopping malls or churches, at their centre, according to urban designer Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE. Speaking at DLD Cities in London, he said “cities hav… http://flpbd.it/39qUZ Related articles How…
Brian Eno on music that thinks for itself (Wired UK) By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk Culture When you think about it, recorded music is something of a historical oddity. Imagine telling a visitor from 1650 that we like to listen to the exact same performances, over and over again, without any variation — they mi… http://flpbd.it/QzmsI…
Don’t Buy A DSLR By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Just getting into photography? Great! When you’re looking for a camera, keep on walking past those DSLRs—as of now, their moment is over. You want to get more into photography. You’ve got somewhere between a few and several hundred doll… http://flpbd.it/lDNTs Related articles A question about DSLRs…
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? Stephen Marche, theatlantic.com Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died. According to the Los… http://flpbd.it/kxQ26 Related articles STUDY: Can…
Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming Colin Tudge, guardian.co.uk The greed for profit is ruining agriculture – and the world – but the trend for local shops and farmers’ markets offers real hope British farmers can’t produce pigs as cheaply as the Poles, or cattle feed as cheaply as the Brazilians, or…
Best-Paying and Worst-Paying Master’s Degrees | Monster. Related articles Are Master’s Degrees Still Worth It (keptup.typepad.com) Purdue Cal offers new online tech master’s degree (nwitimes.com) Embrace Your Midlife Crisis [Infographic] (thetechscoop.net)
What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is…
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