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  • Colossal | A blog about art and visual ingenuity

    Colossal | A blog about art and visual ingenuity. By Christopher on, thisiscolossal.com Accord­ing to the Nation­al Ocean­ic and Atmos­pher­ic Admin­is­tra­tion less than five per­cent of the world’s oceans have been explored, mean­ing that 95% of what lies deep under­wa­ter on Earth has yet to be seen by human eyes. One per­son wh… http://flpbd.it/rkX3u Related…

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  • Canon PowerShot G15

    Canon PowerShot G15 features f/1.8-2.8 lens and DSLR-like controls, we go hands-on (video) Zach Honig, engadget.com Not com­plete­ly sold on Canon’s large sensor-packing Pow­er­Shot G1 X? The com­pa­ny’s lat­est jumbo com­pact offers a com­pa­ra­ble smooth focus effect, thanks to its super-wide f/1.8-2.8, 28-140mm opti­cal zoom lens, with image sta­bi­liza­tion… http://flpbd.it/wAQD4 Related articles Product snapshot: Canon…

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  • How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag

    How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag, Increase Fuel Efficiency Alexander George, wired.com Photo: GasPods Indus­tri­al design­er and under­wa­ter pho­tog­ra­ph­er Bob Evans got the inspi­ra­tion for GasPods from the bumps he observed on lob­sters’ backs. It seems coun­ter­in­tu­itive, but pro­tru­sions on an already-streamlined… http://flpbd.it/BuaDx Related articles Food Glorious Food: Burger & Lobster (onefinestay.com) Apparently This Matters: Lobster…

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  • Boosted Board electric longboard

    Boosted Board electric longboard is lightweight enough to carry, powerful enough to haul riders uphill Michael Gorman, engadget.com Boost­ed Board isn’t the first pow­ered skate­board to grace these pages, but it is the light­est. In its cur­rent pro­to­type form, it weighs just 12 pounds, thanks to a high-end Loaded Van­guard long­board, 2,000W brush­less elec­tric motor,…

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  • Standing Desks on the Cheap: The IKEA Guide

    Standing Desks on the Cheap: The IKEA Guide lifehacker.com The stand­ing desk rev­o­lu­tion has been rapid­ly spread­ing over the past few years, and it’s no sur­prise why. Switch­ing to a stand­ing desk can improve cir­cu­la­tion, alle­vi­ate back pain, reduce stress, and strength­en mus­cles. But the… http://flpbd.it/CdaGB Related articles IKEA Wants You To Straighten Up Your…

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  • I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work

    I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com The inter­net wouldn’t be the same with­out Cate­ri­na Fake. In 2004, she launched Flickr, one of the largest photo host­ing and shar­ing sites. Later, she co-founded Hunch, which aims to per­son­al­ize the web through rec­om­men­da­tions and a… http://flpbd.it/Ixrmx Related articles The meaning of…

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  • The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

        The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing fastcocreate.com Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution. About a decade ago, I would stand…

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  • How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

      How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media     Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com   Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…   http://flpbd.it/x1nqQ…

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  • The Stealth Bomber: An Electric Bike Even The Dark Knight Would Love

    The Stealth Bomber: An Electric Bike Even The Dark Knight Would Love | 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:…

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  • Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis

    Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis. Related articles What if.. You Sleep 2 Hours a Day (jaggedgracecreations.wordpress.com) New study shows sleep is a hotbed of information (storagebedsdirect.co.uk) How Certain Sounds Help Us Sleep (news.health.com) Ask Dr. K: Sleep vital for reasons unclear (goerie.com) What Happens While You Sleep and How It…

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  • Synthetic Anthropology: building the human computer

    Computing is evolving from silicon to biology and now to social sciences. Introducing the human computer – Boston.com. Related articles Imagining Tomorrow’s Computers Today (news.sciencemag.org) Announcement: UC Irvine to lead social computing research center (universityofcalifornia.edu) New Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network (aaanet.org) Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) A…

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  • Udacity, Udemy: MOOCs disrupt conventional science and tech talent acquisition and education

    MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com. New Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs and startup companies such as Udacity and Udemy are turning conventional education on its head.  Udacity, a startup which is supported by Charles River Ventures,  was created by former professors at Stanford  who taught one AI course online…

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