Tag: Government

  • America’s fastest-growing state

    America’s fastest-growing state: North Frackota By Philip Bump, grist.org Accord­ing to the weird­ly huge text on the Cen­sus Bureau’s web­site, the fastest-growing state in the coun­try in 2011 was North Dako­ta, which grew at a rate of 2.17 per­cent. The sec­ond fastest-growing state was the Dis­trict of Colum­bia, wh… RT @grist: America’s fastest-growing state: North…

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  • The Government Open-Data Program

    The Government Open-Data Program At The Root Of Energy-Efficiency Startups BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com The Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money. It’s only a……

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  • Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong

    2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong By Juliet Eilperin, popsci.com Barack Obama’s second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology—although the budget ax is looming. Sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy have utter­ly trans­formed human life in the past few gen­er­a­tions, and fore­casts of the… RT @gram_positive: But will remain weak in the Philippines.…

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  • For China’s driving test, be ready for almost anything

    (via For China’s driving test, be ready for almost anything – Washington Post) Related articles The Washington Post Readies “Post Everywhere” Video Distribution Play, Chief Digital Officer Vijay Ravindran; Social Reader “Reboot” Coming Soon (beet.tv)

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  • Ethnographic tools examine human behavior

    You, Under the Retail Microscope By Ben Steverman -, bloomberg.com Fred­er­ic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images It’s the clas­sic hol­i­day face-off. On one side, you have the wary shop­per, who is often “just brows­ing” and more and more like­ly to pur­chase only online. On the other, there’s the sales­per­son, wh… RT @BloombergNews: How stores use…

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  • Obama knew you’d vote: social science

    How Obama Knew How You’d Vote, Even Before You Did Dan Rowinski, readwrite.com Imaging you were a political analyst who time traveled from 1990s to November 5, 2012. A quick look at the national polls for the presidential election, you would probably have thought that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a pretty good shot at……

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  • Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

    25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…

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  • Tiny house living on the road

    My Traveling Tiny House Site by Sophic, tinyhouselistings.com Post­ed by Steven on Novem­ber 26, 2012 // 34 Com­ments By Christy Dean Four months ago I moved out of my 2 bed­room home and into this tiny (mobile) house. I’m trav­el­ing the coun­try in my lit­tle nest and I love it! It gets a lot of……

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  • GOP and UN disability treaty position

    Jon Stewart: Have Republicans Hit ‘Rock Bottom’ With Failed United Nations Disability Treaty? Carol Hartsell, huffingtonpost.com For the sec­ond day in a row, Jon Stew­art ham­mered at Repub­li­cans over irra­tional par­ti­san­ship. On Tues­day, he took down Boehn­er and com­pa­ny’s inde­cent fis­cal cliff pro­pos­al, and on Wednes­day “The Daily Show” host took sen­ate… http://flip.it/iamVo Related articles…

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  • Does 48 fps cause motion sickness?

    ‘Hobbit’ Motion Sickness, Nausea Critics Shot Down By Warner Bros. And Peter Jackson Cavan Sieczkowski, huffingtonpost.com Warn­er Bros. and Peter Jack­son are respond­ing to claims that “The Hob­bit: An Unex­pect­ed Jour­ney” is caus­ing motion sick­ness and nau­sea among view­ers. Peter Jack­son’s fan­ta­sy flick pre­miered in New Zealand on Nov. 28 and claims of… http://flip.it/WRhuh Related…

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  • Obama victory and tech industry

    What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com Barack Obama’s vic­to­ry last night has far-reaching fis­cal, social, and mil­i­tary impli­ca­tions, all of which are famil­iar to any­one who kept at least one eye open dur­ing any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech… What Obama’s Victory Means for…

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