Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Nude portrait of Canadian emperor Stephen Harper - Boing Boing
Nude portrait of Canadian emperor Stephen Harper
Scenes from the New American Dustbowl — Matter — Medium
Political conspiracies, water witches, Exodus-quoting priests, and angry, defeated farmers in California’s dying, drough…
The Guts That Scrape The Skies – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science
Take a walk through the African savannah and you might stumble across huge mounds, made from baked earth. They tower up to 9 metres tall, and are decorated with spires, chimneys and buttresses. The...
On a Shoestring, India Sends Orbiter to Mars on Its First Try - NYTimes.com
A spacecraft nicknamed MOM successfully reached Mars orbit Wednesday, making India the first nation to accomplish the feat on a maiden voyage.
A global guide to the first world war - interactive documentary | World news | theguardian.com
Ten historians from 10 countries give a brief history of the first world war through a global lens. Using original news reports, interactive maps and rarely seen footage, including extraordinary shots…
China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet | Rolling Stone
Inside the slow, frustrating - and maybe even hopeful - struggle to reduce China's climate-changing pollution.
The Real Death Valley -
Why are hundreds of migrants dying each year as they attempt to cross the border to America? "The Real Death Valley" takes a hard look into this tragedy, in which hopeful souls cross through one of the most unforgiving weather environments in America - the punishing terrain of Brooks County, Texas.
Rod Serling's closing remarks from "The Obsolete Man" - Boing Boing
These People Got Tasered For A Photoshoot - Digg
Photographer Patrick Hall films people's reactions as they get tased with a handheld stun gun. Here are those reactions in slow-mo video form.
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story | WIRED
The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”
A Peek Into Life in 'Silicon Forest,' Russia's Hot New Startup Scene | WIRED
The town of Akademgorodok, nestled among birch and conifers 3,400 kilometers east of Moscow, is becoming a hub for 21st century Russian innovation and entrepreneurship. You’ve heard of Silicon Valley. This is Silicon Forest.
We Can't Explain The Audience Of This Twerk Competition - Digg
Did they confuse Jason Derulo's "Wiggle" for a Wiggles concert? You're all grounded for a month.
Video: Animation details the moments leading up to Lac-Mégantic disastrous derailment - The Globe and Mail
On August 19, 2014, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada released an animation detailing the events that led to the Lac-Mégantic derailment and explosion
Video: Canada's employment hot spots - The Globe and Mail
Bob Funk, CEO of Express Employment Professionals talks about which areas of Canada are hiring
The Keyboard’s Strange Impact On Your Baby’s Name | Popular Science
What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola - NYTimes.com
We have to prepare for the chance that the virus becomes airborne.
The Unshakeable Optimism of Thirtysomethings -- Science of Us
A lot of exploring different options going on.
Order From Chaos: The Making of Breaking Wave on Vimeo
A video documenting the making of the Breaking Wave kinetic ball suspension sculpture by Plebian Design (www.plebiandesign.com) and Hypersonic (www.hypersonic.cc)…
Purely Mechanical Display Uses 804 Balls To Create a Kinetic Display
Whoa. That's all we have to say about this art installation. Oops, did we say art? Don't let that three letter word scare you, because this project called Breaking Wave is nothing short of an absolutely incredible, fully mechanical, machine.
A smart way to convert dollars across the border - The Globe and Mail
Norbert Schlenker has a financial transaction named in his honour – Norbert’s Gambit. Use it to convert Canadian dollars into U.S. currency
Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here - IEEE Spectrum
A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world
Animated, candid Bukowski interviews - Boing Boing
MotoArt | Own a piece of aviation history
The Gangster's Guide to Upward Mobility
Stunning great white shark footage - Boing Boing
‘The Marijuana Divide’ - NYTimes.com
In Colorado, two towns near each other have had divergent reactions to their state’s legalization of marijuana.
historycomic.com • Some pages from the Byzantines chapter I’ve been...
Some pages from the Byzantines chapter I’ve been working for awhile on.
Welcome to Williston, North Dakota: America's new gold rush city | Cities | The Guardian
The most expensive place to rent new housing in the US isn't Miami, LA or even New York. Thanks to the fracking boom, it's Williston, ND. How does a city cope with a modern-day gold rush?
Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block - ProPublica
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
BBC News - Vanadium: The metal that may soon be powering your neighbourhood
Hawaii has a problem storing solar power, and the solution could be a metal that you've probably never heard of - vanadium.
The Central Paradox of the 21st Century
Our unheard of affluence as consumers, our precarious existence as workers both stem from the same source: inexorable productivity increases.
Human skull lyre - Boing Boing
What Does Your Surname Mean? | Visual.ly
Ever wondered what your surname would be if you were French? This infographic delves into the most common English surnames and their equivalents in Fr
Meet the Russian collective making nightmare fuel | The Verge
In one room, a shirtless, redheaded boy is about to drive his sword through the stomach of a child on a snowcapped mountain. In another, statuesque models lounge on a digital beach as a hurricane...
Ben Young Glass Artist Sydney, Australia
The personal portfolio site of Ben Young
To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs - Issue 15: Turbulence - Nautilus
The water is always running in Björn Hof’s laboratory. Like a Zen water fountain, it gently flows over the top of a reservoir into…
Men's Journal Magazine - Men's Style, Travel, Fitness and Gear
Advice from celebrities and experts about the best gear and travel destinations plus guides to men's fitness, food, drinks, style and outdoor adventure from Men's Journal
Consider the Can | The Big Roundtable
10 Reasons Why You Can’t Live Without A Particle Accelerator - Issue 14: Mutation - Nautilus
Physicists use particle accelerators to answer questions of fundamental physics—how our universe was created, why objects have mass,…
The Scary Ham | Tor.com
Ellen Klages tells the true story of a family, their small community, and the scary ham that menaced them for decades.
Why is there a Desert in Maine? | Travel | Smithsonian
Maine's
The Worst Waiter in History
Europe’s Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
Photographs of the abandoned battlefields reveal the trenches’ scars still run deep
How Heavy Metal Tracks the Wealth of Nations - CityLab
This music of disillusion and despair is, strangely, biggest in countries with very high quality of life.
Banksy Sums Up His NYC Residency - Digg
Banksy won a Webby award last week, but instead of showing up to collect his prize, he sent in this thoughtful video.
Sushi's Secret: Why We Get Hooked On Raw Fish : The Salt : NPR
We love raw seafood but can't stand uncooked fowl or pork. Why? A big part of it is the effective lack of gravity in water, a scientist says. Weightlessness gives fish muscles a smooth, soft texture.
Donetsk's People Republic: One Building, Endless Bureaucracy | New Republic
The pro-Russian ministate in Ukraine is the smallest country in the world. It must also be the most insanely bureaucratic.
Why humans evolved to love watching animals – David Barash – Aeon
Humans are fascinated by watching our fellow animals – is that just an evolutionary hangover or something more profound?
ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment on USTREAM: ***QUICK NOTES ABOUT HDEV VIDEO*** Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the ...
***QUICK NOTES ABOUT HDEV VIDEO***
Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the Earth.
No Audio = Normal. There is no audio by design. Add your own soundtrack.
For a display of the real time ISS location plus the HDEV imagery, visit here: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/
The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the ISS was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module. This experiment includes several commercial HD video cameras aimed at the earth which are enclosed in a pressurized and temperature controlled housing. Video from these cameras is transmitted back to earth and also streamed live on this channel. While the experiment is operational, views will typically sequence though the different cameras. Between camera switches, a gray and then black color slate will briefly appear. Since the ISS is in darkness during part of each orbit, the images will be dark at those times. During periods of loss of signal with the ground or when HDEV is not operating, a gray color slate or previously recorded video may be seen.
Analysis of this experiment will be conducted to assess the effects of the space environment on the equipment and video quality which may help decisions about cameras for future missions. High school students helped with the design of some of the HDEV components through the High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) program. Student teams will also help operate the experiment. To learn more about the HDEV experiment, visit here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/917.html
The Fauxtopias of
Detroit’s Suburbs | Belt Magazine | Dispatches From The Rust Belt
How Detroit's suburban preservation parks abandon buildings by saving them, and create history without history.
A Rust Belt Playlist | Belt Magazine | Dispatches From The Rust Belt
The story of the industrial Midwest can be told through the songs it inspired, spanning many genres. Here's Belt Magazine's playlist of 20 Rust Belt tunes.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It . . . and He Feels Fine - NYTimes.com
How To Hack A Car - Digg
Information security researcher Mathew Solnik, with a little over a grand and about a month of work, found time outside of his full-time job to reverse-engineer a car's computer system to make it ready for a takeover.
With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer - Businessweek
A bird? A plane? A flying drilling rig! | Financial Post
The modular SkyStrat drilling rig is delivered to remote sites by helicopter, reducing the environmental footprint of resource exploration
Shango - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Working Around God: Technology, the Pace of Life, and the Shabbos Elevator - The Atlantic
Theology and technology in New York City's elevators
Dabbawala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Suburbs Will Die: One Man’s Fight to Fix the American Dream | TIME
Engineer Charles Marohn worked his whole life trying to make his community better—until the day he realized he was ruining it.
The 20-Year-Old Ebola Treatment That Could Save Kent Brantly
How blood transfusions may have saved seven Ebola patients 20 years ago
Antarctica's Blood Red Waterfall | Travel | Smithsonian
On the southern edge of the world, a waterfall runs red as blood
Low-Power Laser Could Speed CPUs - IEEE Spectrum
The polariton laser now runs on electricity, operates at room temperature, and could be key to on-chip optical interconnects
An Energy-Storing Wind Turbine Would Provide Power 24/7 - IEEE Spectrum
How reengineered wind turbines integrated with energy storage could help balance the grid
How America’s Police Became an Army: The 1033 Program
Ferguson, Missouri is just the tip of the iceberg. Police departments across America have a military obsession.
How Should We Program Computers to Deceive? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
Placebo buttons in elevators and at crosswalks that don't actually do anything are just the beginning.
Why A Dead Battery Bounces - Digg
You already know that alkaline batteries give you electricity by way of a chemical reaction. But did you also know that reaction changes the way batteries behave when dropped, allowing you to easily test if they're still good?
The Man Behind The World's Smallest V-12 Engine - Digg
José Manuel Hermo Barreiro is a pensioner from Galicia. He's a retired naval mechanic and he has built some of the smallest engines in the world. This is his story.
Dropping Science: 'XKCD' Cartoonist Randall Munroe on His New Book | Rolling Stone
'XKCD' cartoonist Randall Munroe drops science (literally) in his new book 'What If."
China's Island Factory
Attack of the Superhackers | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Highview Power
Feds robocall selves, find 8,000 unused phone lines — and you’re paying for them | Toronto Star
Project aims to ferret out orphan phone numbers for departments sloppy about keeping track.
Long Ago, a Pilot Landed on an Uptown Street. That's Where the Bar Was. - NYTimes.com
In 1956, a drunken Thomas Fitzpatrick made a barroom bet, and then to win it he stole a plane in New Jersey and plopped it down on St. Nicholas Avenue. He did something similar two years later.
Alex Trebek Is the Last King of the American Middlebrow | New Republic
Who is Alex Trebek?
The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
Google is engaging in unprecedented, massive, ongoing data collection to transform intractable problems into solvable chores.
Absurd Creature of the Week: This Oceanic ‘Nightmare’ Suffocates Foes With Clouds of Slime | Science | WIRED
This is the hagfish, a bizarre, eel-like critter that asphyxiates the fish and sharks foolish enough to attack it by clogging up their gills with massive releases of goo. But this is no simple snot. It’s a deceptively complex substance that could one day gift us the supermaterial of our dreams.
KEN UNSWORTH - Imgur
Imgur is home to the web's most popular image content, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing.
Jill Lepore: The Office from Beginning to End : The New Yorker
In “Cubed,” Nikil Saval, an editor at n+1, is interested in the office as a place: filing cabinets and photocopiers, rolling chairs and cubicles. Most of what he has to say is not only familiar but derivative; as he admits, his book is “chiefly a work of synthesis.” Still, “Cubed” is cleverly pieced together and much more subtle and sophisticated than its fun-facts-in-a-box P.R.
Lizzie Widdicombe: Could Soylent Replace Food? : The New Yorker
Soylent, a synthetic food product, is made from raw chemical components; its formula accounts for all the major food groups. Rob Rhinehart, Soylent’s creator, says, “It’s kind of an over-all food substitute. In theory, you could live on this entirely. In fact, you’d be pretty healthy.”
Backstage at Versailles: A Handyman’s Tour of the Palace | Messy Nessy Chic
Wingsuit Pilots Fly At 125MPH Under Bridge On Side Of Mountain - Digg
The world's most renowned wingsuit pilots, Jokke Sommer, Espen Fadnes and Ludovic Woerth spent a year looking for the perfect flight. This is one of their most memorable moments: a never-before-attempted flight under the bridge of the Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix at Mont Blanc, France. At 3,800 meters up and flying at over 125mph, there is little room for error.
36 Unexpected Origins Of Everyday British Phrases
Etymology, my dear Watson. ..
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Banksy's Latest Graffiti Is A Brutal Comment On Government Spying At GCHQ
Banksy has produced what is suspected to be his latest work, on the side of a house near the government's spy centre. Produced on a wall near GCHQ in Cheltenham, the image shows agents spying around a dilapidated phone box.
Amazing Towers In Ethiopia Harvest Clean Water From Thin Air | The Good News Network
After visiting Ethiopia and seeing people forced to walk miles every day for water, an Italian designer set his mind to creating a simple solution to provide clean water for any mountainous village.
Video: Raw footage captures ice moving at breakneck speeds on Quebec river - The Globe and Mail
A huge pileup of ice is rapidly flowing down the Chaudiere River in Quebec. Several dozen homes and businesses were given evacuation notices Saturday because of rising water levels caused by the ice jam.
Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt - NYTimes.com
The depletion of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported Monday.
The Giants Of Iceland - Digg
Despite its tiny population, Iceland has a reputation in the World's Strongest Man competition that stands higher than perhaps any other country's. This small, black rock has produced a lineage of strongmen dating back to the Vikings.
What Heartbleed Looks Like When Running Its Code - Digg
We look at and run the code that exploits the Heartbleed bug.
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How Flesh-Eating Strep Bacteria Evolved Into an Epidemic | Science | WIRED
A new study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, details the evolution of a flesh-eating bacteria, group A Streptococcus. By charting its evolution, scientists hope to gain invaluable insights into tackling subsequent generations of these menaces, and to begin to better understand the very nature of epidemics.
Making Ethanol from Waste Gas and Water | MIT Technology Review
Stanford researchers develop a copper catalyst that can efficiently convert carbon monoxide and water to ethanol.
How Heartbleed Broke the Internet — And Why It Can Happen Again | Enterprise | WIRED
Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and culture at Wired.com.
96 Year Old is Selling Amazing 1950's Time Capsule Home | Photos | HGTV Canada
A gem like you've never seen! A 96-year-old Toronto resident is selling what we at HGTV.
Scientists are getting closer to a quantum computer — here's why it matters - Vox
Scientists are getting closer to building a quantum computer — here's the plain language explanation of why it matters.
n+1: What Happened to Canada?
The drastic turn in Canadian politics and policy raises some urgent questions. Why hasn’t the population stopped the attack on its public services? Why have left-leaning parties lost ground at the polls while Harper and his ilk continue getting reelected? Why, in a society with a more collectively oriented spirit, has the political discourse taken a sharp turn to the right?
Drunken Prairie Voles Help Explain Alcohol’s Demons | Science | Smithsonian
Why do some people become more prone to attachment and sentimentality when drunk, while others tend to stray?
Canadian auto investment stalls - The Globe and Mail
Country slips to 10th-largest vehicle maker globally as investment increases in China, Mexico and Brazil
The Culture of Shut Up - Atlantic Mobile
Too many debates about important issues degenerate into manufactured and misplaced outrage—and it's chilling free speech.
LOW-TECH MAGAZINE: How Sustainable is Digital Fabrication?
Digital fabrication is praised as the future of manufacturing. Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine tools can convert a digital design into an object with the click of a mouse, which means the production process is completely automated. The use of digital machine tools has spread rapidly in factories over the last two decades, and they have now become cheap and user-friendly enough to bring them within reach of workshops and makers. While CNC machines have been embraced by many, including some environmentalists who say the technology can be more...
Civilization’s Starter Kit - NYTimes.com
Beaming Good Cheer to a Norwegian Town’s Dark Days - NYTimes.com
Three giant mirrors on a mountain reflect sunlight onto a small Norwegian town that gets very little of it in the winter. But not everyone is happy with the project.
Digging Up Old Drilling Logs to Strike Not Oil, but Water - NYTimes.com
As drought grips most of Texas, researchers are combing the records to map brackish groundwater in the state’s 30 aquifers — hidden resources that could help quench the state’s long-term thirst.
SQL Injection Fools Speed Traps and Clears Your Record
Typical speed camera traps have built-in OCR software that is used to recognize license plates. A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection...
No One Wants to Admit They're Ugly, Which Makes It Hard to Fight Beauty Bias | Smart News | Smithsonian
Nobody wants to join the ugly lobby, but that might be what we need to battle
How To Etch Metal With A 9V Battery - Digg
At last, a way to stop throwing your money at those corrupt con-artist metal etchers.
‘Slomo’ - NYTimes.com
Dr. John Kitchin quit a medical career to pursue his passion: skating along the boardwalk of San Diego’s Pacific Beach. He calls himself “Slomo.”
A journey to the island where Tabasco is made - Videos - CBS News
On assignment for 60 Minutes, Sanjay Gupta travels “back in time” to the Tabasco company's private island in the bayous of Louisiana
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