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Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds By Colin Lecher, popsci.com And here’s a few fun ones in advance. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology just released an online archive filled with thousands of animal noises. The archive doesn’t have everything—it mostly focuses on birds—but you could still was… http://flip.it/5juay Related articles National Library of Wales:…
The Haunting Math Of America’s War On Drugs [Infographic] By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Keeping people locked up ain’t cheap. In 2010, the U.S. spent a whopping $500 per second fighting the War on Drugs, and most people sent to prison for drug-related offenses are there for possession, not selling. The upshot? More than hal… http://flip.it/mkx9y…
Venom: The Bite That Heals By Jennifer S. Holland, nationalgeographic.com The Bite That Heals Scientists are unlocking the medical potential of venom. Michael decided to go for a swim. He was on vacation with his family in Guerrero, Mexico, and it was hotter than blazes. He grabbed his swimming trunks from… RT @NatGeoScience: The Bite…
Death and Dying, the Animal Way – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/p64yX http://flip.it/X0pJs Related articles Death, Dying, & Buddhism – Pinterest (avantika1967.wordpress.com) On Death and Dying Differently (judemarian.wordpress.com)
Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Facebook just let loose with a new update to the Messenger app for iPhone, which until now was restricted to text messaging, sort of like…
Anti-Surveillance Hoodie And Scarf Prevent Drones From Tracking You By Clay Dillow, popsci.com Or, how to accessorize in Waziristan. The increasingly vast suite of surveillance tools available to state authorities has certainly given privacy advocates something to bristle at. In an exhibition launching this week, NYC-base… http://flip.it/6pCFQ Related articles The Anti-Drone Hoodie (hoodieblog.com) Stealth Wear:…
Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com Researchers with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) has released their findings that between 30 to 50 percent of all food produced or up to two billion tons is thrown away each year. The UK-based group claims that over-cautious sell by……
USDA offers up new seed money for small farmers gristsusie, grist.org Make your hydroponic backyard organic kale dreams come true, now with help from the federal government. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized a microloan program to assist veterans, minority growers, and small-time farmers who mig… USDA offers up new seed money for small…
Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks By David Cornish, wired.co.uk Business There’s a ubiquitous smugness that appears to accompany the purchase of an ereader. It’s not in the box, nor is it downloaded as an optional extra — but a quick glance at the expression of an ereading commuter beside their… RT @WiredUK:…
US cities employ precog algorithm to predict murder By Kim Zetter, wired.co.uk Politics Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you? New crime-prediction software used in Maryland and Pennsylvania, U… http://flip.it/4MS8c Related articles Movie Review :…
Infographic: MIT illustrates how the world uses its mobile phones By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the January 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flip.it/kl0pp Related articles The…
Japan’s quiet, clean demolition technique generates clean energy By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Technology A Japanese construction company is using giant jacks and electricity-generating cranes to dismantle a high-rise tower in Tokyo, floor by floor. Taisei Corporation is using its Ecological Reproduction System (Tecorep… RT @WiredUK: Japan’s quiet, clean demolition technique generates clean energy http://flip.it/Q7td8 by…
US diplomats believe Syria dropped hallucinogenic weapon on rebels By Noah Shachtman, wired.co.uk Politics The Syrian military used an exotic chemical weapon on rebels during an attack in the city of Homs, some US diplomats now believe. That conclusion — first reported by Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin and laid out in a… RT @WiredUK: US…
The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Technology Brazilian authorities hope to combat deforestation in the Amazon by fitting trees with wireless location devices that send out alerts if their host tree is cut down. Invisible Tracck is a device about the size of a… RT @WiredUK: The Amazon will…
startl.org Applications now open for 2013 Accelerator After a year hiatus, Startl is again partnering with DreamIt Ventures to offer a very select group of enterprises the opportunity to engage in an intensive, company-building immersion… http://flip.it/1zxEW Accelerator 2013 Related articles Ranking Applicants For An Accelerator (alexstechthoughts.com) DreamIt Health Startup Medlio Has a Virtual Insurance Card:…
How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Washinton, DC was never known for being bike-friendly — but over the last decade, the city is home to the largest and most successful bike-sharing program in the country. Slate tracks its rise, pinning much of the success on former……
Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs from YouTube, NPR and more By Ben Popper, theverge.com Giving novice coders the ability to build on top of other software Since it launched last year, New York startup Codecademy has helped to fill the huge demand for computer science education with free online courses in programming… RT…
JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Online digital library JSTOR will begin offering free access to its catalogue of journals, papers, and books. The Register & Read program will now allow individuals to register for the service, but members will only be able to read……
How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil…
Keith Ratliff, YouTube’s most famous gun lover, found dead By Chris Welch, theverge.com Keith Ratliff, whose gun enthusiast YouTube channel FPSRussia is among the most popular on the video site, was found dead on January 3rd — killed by a single shot to the head. Ratliff’s body was discovered in the office where he stored……
Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on) By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com The original Clamcase was one of the most flawed iPad keyboards we tried in our roundup — since then, the company has gone back to the drawing board and is now debuting a much-improved new model called the…
America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ By Laura June, theverge.com Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up…
Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color By Amar Toor, theverge.com What can a film’s color scheme say about its narrative? According to Spotmaps, quite a lot. Created by Andy Willis, Spotmaps is a Python-based project that conceptualizes classic movies not in words or storyboards, but highly-detailed… RT @verge: Spotmaps…
California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/JgDqM http://flip.it/8W5cC Related articles NYTimes rejects the MOOCopalypse (computinged.wordpress.com) Bill to Create ‘New University of California’ Dies (insidehighered.com) California Bill Brings Online College One Step Closer (tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com)
Non-Profit Innovation: How Minerva Plans To Make Its Affordable, Next-Gen University A Reality Rip Empson, techcrunch.com The Minerva Project burst onto the scene last year with an ambitious goal: To create the next elite American university, online, and, in so doing, help rethink the role of higher education in the Digital Era. Not only that,…
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