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  • Peter McFarlane Transforms Old Circuit Boards into Gorgeous, Poignant Fossil Art

    Peter McFarlane Transforms Old Circuit Boards into Gorgeous, Poignant Fossil Art | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From…

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  • Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK

    Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK Mark Boyer, inhabitat.com This month, Paul Testa Archi­tec­ture obtained plan­ning approval to build an earth-sheltered home in the Unit­ed King­dom. The Bur­rows is a high­ly sus­tain­able single-family home that will be built into a hill­side in South York­shire. Because… http://flpbd.it/xjzfJ Related articles…

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  • LaunchPad Shipping Container Computer Labs

    LaunchPad Shipping Container Computer Labs Let South African Students Connect With Mentors Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Perkins+Will has part­nered with Infi­nite Fam­i­ly, a U.S.-based non prof­it orga­ni­za­tion, to build ship­ping con­tain­er com­put­er labs in South Africa to help stu­dents con­nect with men­tors. The firm com­plet­ed their first Launch­Pad… http://flpbd.it/hhYBw Related articles Twenty-eight containers transform orphange in…

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  • Terreform Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens

    Terreform Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens & Urban Farms to Become Self-Sufficient inhabitat.com In response to glob­al urban pop­u­la­tion, Ter­reform, Inc.* has come up with an inno­v­a­tive way for New York City to deal with the issues that arise from this world wide prob­lem. The plan, called New York City Steady State (NYCSS), calls…

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  • Obama Lost the Debate the Right Way by Deepak Chopra, thedailybeast.com Romney walked away happy. But at least the president defended his own record with integrity. Deepak Chopra on why Mitt’s Etch-a-Sketch shake won’t last. Per­son­al­ly, I was glad that Pres­i­dent Obama debat­ed the way he did, despite alarmist… http://flpbd.it/kjygJ

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  • Blacksocks, App For Sorting Socks

    Blacksocks, App For Sorting Socks, Is In Fact A Real Thing Reuters, huffingtonpost.com By Natasha Baker TORON­TO (Reuters) – If match­ing socks is a daily prob­lem a new app that sorts them into pairs and even lets users know when it is time to buy a new pair may help. The free iPhone app called…

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  • Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate

    Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate by Lloyd Grove, thedailybeast.com The pundits may be calling Denver a slam-dunk for Romney, but David B. Givens, who analyzed the candidates’ mannerisms, disagrees: the governor looked ‘aggressive and manic, simultaneously,’ while Obama was ‘cool.’ The gov­er­nor was manic and t… http://flpbd.it/uwyKR Related articles Jimmy Carter:…

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  • Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk

    Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Stu­dio d’Xavier) Try­ing to think of any rea­son pay­ing more at the pump is a good thing would stump the aver­age con­sumer (thin­ner wal­lets after pay­ing with cash?), but one and pos­si­bly the only good side…

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  • Feds: 20% Of Weight Loss, Immune System Supplements Making False Claims

    Feds: 20% Of Weight Loss, Immune System Supplements Making False Claims Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (nathan­mac87) It’s not just that the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment doesn’t want the mar­keters of dietary sup­ple­ments to just make up what their prod­ucts can do for con­sumers, accord­ing to a new study on the preva­lence of weight loss and immune… http://flpbd.it/OJ7NI…

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  • Inside the Latest Office-Design Craze: Hot Desking

    Inside the Latest Office-Design Craze: Hot Desking Flash Steinbeiser, inc.com Inc.com staff As cloud computing and wireless Internet become ubiquitous, workers are cordless. Who needs a cube, much less an office? Just follow the leads of these cool companies. The cubi­cle’s days are num­bered. A con­cept called “hot… http://flpbd.it/M8sTt Related articles 9 Sentences That Could…

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  • Google+ Goes Looking For Love

    Google+ Goes Looking For Love By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra. An inter­view with Google’s senior vice pres­i­dent for engi­neer­ing, Vic Gun­do­tra, about… http://flpbd.it/oOkme Related articles Nexus phones to feature ‘insanely great cameras’ says…

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  • 4 Steps To Advancing Your Career

    4 Steps To Advancing Your Career Via HR’s Myopic Bizarro World By David Clutterbuck, fastcompany.com You can make it without being a sociopath or middling to the point of uselessness. But it’s going to take some insight. Here’s a tough ques­tion: If cor­po­rate poli­cies and prac­tices in tal­ent man­age­ment and suc­ces­sion plan­ning work, ho… http://flpbd.it/HOOdE…

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  • How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing

    Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com Mak­ing my stu­dents switch from MS Word to Google Drive not only elim­i­nat­ed the headache of incom­pat­i­ble ver­sions and big email attach­ments. It’s made them bet­ter writ­ers. When I start­ed teach­ing col­lege writ­ing and jour­nal­ism… http://flpbd.it/uFfgR How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing Related articles Google Drive – Student ePortfolios…

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  • Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

    Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related…

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  • Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products?

    Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products? Only Facebook Knows Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com An ambi­tious Face­book data-collection effort is turn­ing up unlike­ly pat­terns in mem­bers’ inter­ests. Here’s what that means for online mar­keters – and you. Ian Lurie, founder and CEO of Inter­net mar­ket­ing agency Por­tent, is look­ing f… http://flpbd.it/0JbI2

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  • Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’?

    Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’? Damon Lavrinc, wired.com Photo: AP Pres­i­den­tial hope­ful Mitt Rom­ney may be a Michigan-bred entre­pre­neur with a suc­cess­ful career in busi­ness, but the man knows lit­tle about the elec­tric vehi­cle sec­tor. Dur­ing his first debate with Pres­i­dent Bar… http://flpbd.it/NRZsD Related articles Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They…

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  • Bird brains? Crows remember your face

    Bird brains? Crows remember your face Scott K. Johnson, arstechnica.com One of the most enjoy­able facets of study­ing other species is dis­cov­er­ing the amaz­ing things they’re capa­ble of. As humans, the things we tend to find most amaz­ing are the abil­i­ties that remind us the most of, well,… http://flpbd.it/YObK6 Related articles The social brain hypothesis…

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  • Crowdsourcing app will measure the world for a week through smartphones

    Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com If you’ve ever had trou­ble explain­ing the con­cept of “big data” to some­one—or had trou­ble wrap­ping your brain around the buzz­word your­self—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demon­strate big data? It’s the some­what abstract,… http://flpbd.it/okN2Z Related articles How…

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  • Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects?

    Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweek­ly series of posts high­light­ing com­mon ques­tions encoun­tered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered net­work of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…

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  • Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro

    Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro Megan Geuss, arstechnica.com No mat­ter your day job, we all have a sec­ond gig that saps a cou­ple of hours from our lives every month: oper­at­ing the admin­is­tra­tive branch of your life (or your house­hold). Per­son­al bureau­cra­cy is a sad fact of life, but there…

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  • Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct

    Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux discovermagazine.com Eric Michael John­son has a mas­ter’s degree in evo­lu­tion­ary anthro­pol­o­gy focus­ing on great ape behav­ioral ecol­o­gy. He is cur­rent­ly a doc­tor­al stu­dent in the his­to­ry of sci­ence at Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia look­ing at… http://flpbd.it/GVRyf Related articles Ayn Rand is Fiction (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com) Lawmaker Wants…

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  • Never forget a face? Take the test

    Never forget a face? Take the test Gerry Everding-WUSTL, futurity.org WASH­ING­TON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — A new online exper­i­ment tests your abil­i­ty to remem­ber names and faces, and com­pares your score with oth­ers’. The test, which can be taken from a com­put­er, smart­phone, iPad, and other mobile… http://flpbd.it/dn2t5 Related articles Review: Logitech’s Ultrathin…

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  • Check Your Genome

    Check Your Genome Caleb Garling, wired.com berke­ley­lab/Flickr Gene muta­tions can pre­dict how you’ll respond to cer­tain sub­stances. Here’s what genet­ic test­ing out­fit 23andMe can tell you about how you might react to the drugs below. Drugs for which your 23andMe results can… http://flpbd.it/jyQOz Related articles Check Out The Geekiest Black Friday Deal Ever (GOOG) (embargozone.com)…

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  • Eat This Meal

    Eat This Meal Rachel Swaby, wired.com Photo: Todd Tanker­s­ley Fuel­ing your body is easy—if you can pull your­self away from fancy fla­vor com­bi­na­tions and the lat­est culi­nary trends. Just load your plate with foods that are proven to make you stronger and health­i­er, eat, an… http://flpbd.it/R32zo Related articles How to Plan Great Meals with Your…

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  • ELIOOO is an Instruction Book That Shows You How to Turn IKEA Parts Into a Hydroponic Garden System

    ELIOOO is an Instruction Book That Shows You How to Turn IKEA Parts Into a Hydroponic Garden System | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Bridgette Meinhold INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Waterstudio’s Koen Olthuis on FLOAT! Photocredits: Architect Koen Olthuis – Waterstudio.NL and Pieter Kers FLOAT! is a beautiful volume that explores the world…

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  • A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate

    A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.org by Bill Beck­er If Mitt Rom­ney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the tele­vi­sion cam­eras at who was watch­ing their first debate, it undoubt­ed­ly would have been more inter­est­ing than the debate…

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  • Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors losers

    Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors ‘losers’ By Ryan Singel, wired.co.uk Politics In the back and forth of 3 Octo­ber’s pres­i­den­tial debate over tax breaks to ener­gy com­pa­nies, Repub­li­can nom­i­nee Mitt Rom­ney argued that Pres­i­dent Obama’s grants and tax breaks to renew­able ener­gy com­pa­nies equalled 50… http://flpbd.it/cDfBf Related articles Mitt Romney Announce Plans to Run for…

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