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Last weekend, my friends and I went camping at a private spot in Big Sur that has the only fresh water swimming hole in the area. It’d previously been off-limits, but thanks to a new service called Hipcamp, anyone can now book it online. How’s it work? Source: Hipcamp Wants To Be Airbnb For Camping
Population growth over the last century has undoubtedly been dramatic. While it took many thousands of years before the world reached 1bn inhabitants, it was just a few hundred more before we reached today’s population of 7.3bn. By 2050, it is set to swell to well over 9bn – a situation […] Source: The Planetization…
Trade is not only a response to market demand, it creates demand and therefore recreates the need for it; trade becomes its own justification. Source: Food: Trading away our future – part II
A Melbourne researcher says it’s not realistic to keep consuming farmed livestock at current rates and eating feral animals is an alternative. Source: Feral meat a step towards a more sustainable diet, researcher says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Foodie fads are a dime a dozen in the internet age, but grass-fed beef can’t be one of them because it’s really nothing new. Any trip through the countryside is not complete without admiring cows mooing about in fields of green, grazing on what’s beneath their noses. You’ve probably even eaten grass-fed beef before without…
The ethical, environmental, and health problems of virtually every food in the supermarket. Source: Food Safety: A Guide to Healthy and Clean Eating — Grub Street
These two UC Santa Cruz professors think it’s time to have a talk with Siri. Source: Why don’t we say what we mean? | University of California
How much do you really need to say to put a sentence together? Source: The World’s Most Efficient Languages – The Atlantic
Thinking of working on your conversion optimization and landing page optimization? understanding UX design is essential for conversion optimization. Source: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding UX Design
The Paleo Approach is now available! If you want the nitty gritty details (explained in an approachable way!), the diagrams and illustrations, the scientific citations, all of the information in one place, FAQ, information on supplements, help troubleshooting, practical implementation tips, food lists, it’s all in my book: The Paleo Approach Cookbook is also now available!…
The Enterprise Data Management Council (EDM Council) received approval for FIBO Foundations as the first of thirty data content standards for the financial industry. The Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) is an open standard for defining the business terms and relationships associated with financial instruments, pricing concepts and financial processes. These “common language” standards are…
Cambridge Semantics completed a FIBO project to harmonize State Street’s Interest Rate Swap data with Dun & Bradstreet’s entity hierarchy data. Source: FIBO, FIBO, It’s Off to Work We Go
Interest in FIBO is high as banks like State Street complete successful tests. Source: FIBO Marches Forward: A Look Inside State Street’s FIBO Proof of Concept
Climate control has become a necessity, but it’s not a solution. Source: Your air conditioner is making the heat wave worse – The Washington Post
New studies are examining the “will to fight” in ISIS soldiers and their opponents. Source: New studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist | Science News
TORONTO, ON – An international team of researchers has developed a website at d-place.org to help answer long-standing questions about the forces that shaped human cultural diversity. D-PLACE – the .. Source: Massive open-access database on human cultures created – Scienmag
The lesser known Sensory Ethnography Lab is an experimental hotbed for docs that don’t deal in ‘talking heads’ Source: Harvard’s semi-secret lab that pumps out great documentaries | Dazed
There’s a new cottage industry devoted to explanations of the quasi-mystical appeal of Donald Trump. Is he a prosperity gospel preacher? A Platonic tyrant? Or is he a truth-telling jester?At the Los Angeles Times, Peter Manseau recently tried to bring some critical theory to this exercise, Source: Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues |…
Dry Tortugas National Park is one of the darkest places on the east coast of the United States. So if you’re going to make a timelapse video of the night sky, that’s an ideal place to do so. Source: Experience One of the Darkest Places On the US Coast in This Timelapse
In a mesmerizing visualization of transportation ‘clusters,’ Martin Grandjean plots the connections between thousands of airports worldwide, along with the 60,000 routes. Source: The most popular plane flights shown in mesmerising map | Daily Mail Online
Three new infographics highlight changing diets around the world. Source: The world’s ever evolving diets in 4 infographics | PBS NewsHour
Study: mHealth apps are failing on user design Source: mHealth Apps Are Failing the Usability Test
Spoiler alert: Hillary Clinton currently has a huge margin of victory over Donald Trump. Source: The New York Times’s President Predictor Is A Masterclass In Information Design | Co.Design | business + design
Socially liberated millennials are becoming so nomadic they are choosing shared living spaces and homeslessness over home ownership Source: In the future we will all be homeless says co-living entrepreneur
Source: Mossberg: Wi-Fi calling from Republic Wireless takes a big leap | The Verge
Faroe Islands is an island country halfway between Norway and Iceland. It features some of the world’s most beautiful roads, but those routes haven’t been Source: Sheep View 360: An Island Country’s Makeshift Street View
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