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Bluetooth stickers help you find things when you lose them Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net StickNFinds are Bluetooth location stickers the diameter of a quarter (but thicker than a quarter). You attach them to television remote controls, pets, children, or other things that you need to locate. The batteries last about a… RT @BoingBoing: Bluetooth stickers help…
Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Robert Ghrist from University of Pennsylvania wrote in to tell us about his new, free Coursera course in single-variable Calculus, which starts on Jan 7. Calculus is one of those amazing, chewy, challenging branches of math, and… RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with…
For Medical Marijuana in New Jersey, a First Few Ounces – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/BBFEY& http://flip.it/LqvgH
By ANTON TROIANOVSKI, wsj.com “Every weekend, we’d do something,” said Ms. Steffen, a registered nurse whose husband works at a tire shop. “Now maybe once every month or two, we get out.” More than half of all U.S. cellphone owners carry a device like the iPhone, a sh… Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget…
Was Jack Kerouac really a hack? – Salon.com By Joseph Lapin, salon.com As “On the Road” prepares to hit the big screen, a writer reassesses the novel with the Beat’s friends and critics In December, a film adaption of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” will hit theaters — featuring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewar… RT @Salon_Arts:…
Cory Booker goes on food stamps – Salon.com By Mary Elizabeth Williams, salon.com The Newark mayor goes on a food-stamp diet to show us what poverty tastes like Cory Booker is a rare and unique brand of politician. Cory Booker is a human being. Since taking office in 2006, the mayor of Newark has made…
Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciencescore77.com Today’s global financial and social crises demand innovation not only in public services, but within the whole bureaucratic, administrative system of public governance. In order to respond effectively to a changing context of… RT @core77: Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences – Paper by @Nesta_UK & @MindLabDK:…
On Sale At Last: Twine, Your Gateway To The Internet Of Things By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com The hit Kickstarter product hopes to popularize “the Internet of things” with thoughtful product design. A year ago, two MIT Media Lab graduates raised half a million dollars on Kickstarter to create Twine, a cigarette-pack-sized chunk of… RT @core77:…
frog’s 20 Tech Trends for 2013core77.com Click for full-sized image. Download the full poster here.With 13 offices spread across the world, the designers, strategists and technologists that make up the world of frog have a unique global perspective on trends that effect business,… RT @core77: What #Tech trends should you be on your radar? @frogdesign…
Can I Leave My Gadgets In a Cold or Hot Car? Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com Dear Lifehacker,I almost always have my laptop, iPod, and smartphone with me, but don’t always want to lug them around. Is it okay to leave them in my car if it’s particularly cold outside? What about in the summer heat? I…
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost…
What birds are doing with your cigarette butts Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net Nicotine is one of nature’s bug zappers. Seriously. Lots of plants have evolved to produce bug-repelling chemicals as part of their defense mechanisms and tobacco happens to be one of those plants. So when city-dwelling birds use the… RT @BoingBoing: What birds are doing…
A taxonomy of Mitt Romney’s lies – Salon.com By Benjamin Wheelock, salon.com A close look at the most diverse and resilient species this side of the Galapagos “Jeep — now owned by the Italians — is thinking of moving all production to China.” “The president said he’d cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he… RT…
10 right-wingers who got the election hilariously wrong – Salon.com By AlterNet Staff„ salon.com So much for hunches and gut instincts. Maybe in 2016, these would-be pollsters will read Nate Silver like adults We really had a contest between the reality-based community, and a conservative movement that had convinced itself that… RT @Salon: On Monday,…
Hello, Mr. President? It’s me, Roger Ebert – Salon.com By Roger Ebert, salon.com I think we need an emergency education program, investing in basics — and not $60 million high school stadiums I would ask the president for an emergency education program. Our students at every level are below American historical no… RT @ebertchicago: What…
When the Nerds Go Marching In James Fallows, theatlantic.com How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama’s reelection The Obama campaign’s technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong. Josh Thayer… When the Nerds Go Marching In – Alexis…
Chris Christie listened to Rupert Murdoch’s warning, re-backed Romney – Salon.com By David Daley, salon.com After the Fox News chief threatened the governor on Twitter, the two men quickly talked, and Christie got on board Rupert Murdoch’s warning tweet — telling Chris Christie in the midst of Hurricane Sandy cleanup that the New Jersey governo……
Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party – Salon.com By William Bynum, salon.com Marco Rubio doesn’t know how old the Earth is. Maybe he and his GOP pals need this refresher on the Big Bang If a film of the history of the universe had been made, what would happen if you…
Identity fraud more common among LinkedIn users – Salon.com By Natasha Lennard, salon.com The personal information openly shared on social media sites is a goldmine for fraudsters The proliferation of personal information shared via social media correlates with a significant spike in instances of identity fraud. In 201… RT @Salon: “A goldmine for fraudsters”: Identity…
Cory Booker goes on food stamps – Salon.com By Mary Elizabeth Williams, salon.com The Newark mayor goes on a food-stamp diet to show us what poverty tastes like Cory Booker is a rare and unique brand of politician. Cory Booker is a human being. Since taking office in 2006, the mayor of Newark has made…
“Doomsday Preppers”: Living like you’re gonna die tomorrow – Salon.com By Roger Catlin, salon.com Forget “The Walking Dead” and “Revolution.” These National Geographic characters are truly ready for doomsday The envy was fairly palpable among the gathered “Doomsday Preppers” as the 25-ton, 10-foot-tall, 18-inch-thick doors swung open,… RT @NYTjamescobb: Doomsday preppers “imagine they’ll have the…
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