Thursday, June 2, 2011

Workplace Robots Need a Better View - Technology Review


Alarming combo: Bedbugs with 'superbug' germ found



Robots Retrieve Books in University of Chicago’s New, Futuristic Library | Underwire | Wired.com



What Happens When You Slam On the Brakes in a 747? | Wired Science | Wired.com



Japan Ponders Its New Normal - NYTimes.com



Exploding frame clockwork sculpture, the sequel - Boing Boing



YouTube - White River Flood. DeVallsBluff Arkansas 5-8-11 The Moat.


How Corporations Get Out of Paying Taxes



Risking one's neck for better grog: Mutinies reveal tipping points for collective unrest



Danger Mouse, Banksy Burn Paris | SPIN.com



How one Japanese village defied the tsunami | NOLA.com



Hawaiian Couple Embarks on Mega Tree-Planting Road Trip: 50 Native Trees, 50 States (Slideshow) : TreeHugger



CDC Confirms Lemon Eucalyptus Oil as Effective as DEET : TreeHugger


GE and EADS to Print Parts for Airplanes - Technology Review



Energy harvesters transform waste into electricity



Chinese villagers 'descended from Roman soldiers' - Telegraph



Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language | Wired Science | Wired.com



YouTube - Whitest Kids U'Know: Clint Webb



A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space on Vimeo


In Japan Reactor Failings, Danger Signs for the U.S. - NYTimes.com



New Nanolens Breaks Resolution Record | Wired Science | Wired.com



Why Russians think Americans don't own their homes



24 hour deployable concrete tents back in the news as disasters mount



Revealed: How Area 51 Hid Secret Craft



With Eye on Climate Change, Chicago Prepares for a Warmer Future - NYTimes.com


A Car Battery at Half the Price - Technology Review



Hand-cranked magnet machine is endless fun - Hack a Day



As the Army Fights the Mississippi River, Who Is Winning? | Popular Science



California prison overcrowding, in photos - Boing Boing



New Clue in Obesity Epidemic Points to Workplace - NYTimes.com



Sarajevo Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Bouba/Kiki Effect - Boing Boing



Canadian Tories refuse to send soldiers to help flood victims because they'd compete with the private 

sector - Boing Boing



BBC News - What Paddington tells us about German v British manners



What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters - Technology Review



Details of new type of electric car battery released



Wolfram Alpha Turns 2: ‘People Just Need What We Are Doing’ | Epicenter | Wired.com


Prozac Killing E. coli in the Great Lakes



26 terabits per second: World record in ultra-rapid data transmission



Online Personalization Creates Echo Chamber to Affirm Biases - NYTimes.com



Wereldrecord verspringen met auto | Flabber



Median Earnings by Major and Subject Area - Home - The Chronicle of Higher Education



Sensors pave the way to using energy from the stars


Groundwater Depletion Is Detected by Grace Satellites - NYTimes.com



Melting Ice Roads Could Cause Northern Countries' Interiors To Become Wilder : TreeHugger



Bouquet Garni Recipes Inspired by a 1st Century Roman Herb Garden : TreeHugger



‘Architecture in Uniform,’ in Montreal - Review - NYTimes.com



Hands Off Our Houses - NYTimes.com



‘Devil Worm’ Takes Animal Life to New Depths | Wired Science | Wired.com


The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable | Threat Level | Wired.com



The Mystery of the Canadian Whiskey Fungus | Magazine



BBC News - Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis



Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Shale gas ‘fracking’ halted after possible quake link - The Globe and Mail



A possible link between pollution and crime—and marshmallows - Boing Boing

2 comments:

  1. Gittes,

    Thanks once again for yet another collection of thought provoking article links.

    Links which I forward to others who are stunned at the amount of time I must available (during work hours) to locate such gems.

    claudio

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  2. Gittes,

    Your excellent article links are rippling outwards.

    claudio

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