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  • NYC prepping shipping container homes for disaster relief

    NYC is Preparing Shipping Container Homes for Future Hurricanes and Disasters Haywood Udume, inhabitat.com After the destruc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Sandy, New York City is get­ting prepped for the future with a plan to build dis­as­ter shel­ters out of ship­ping con­tain­ers. Rather than makeshift dwel … RT @inhabitat: NYC is Preparing Shipping Container Homes for…

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  • Anti-Surveillance Hoodie And Scarf Prevent Drones From Tracking

    Anti-Surveillance Hoodie And Scarf Prevent Drones From Tracking You By Clay Dillow, popsci.com Or, how to accessorize in Waziristan. The increas­ing­ly vast suite of sur­veil­lance tools avail­able to state author­i­ties has cer­tain­ly given pri­va­cy advo­cates some­thing to bris­tle at. In an exhi­bi­tion launch­ing this week, NYC-base… http://flip.it/6pCFQ Related articles The Anti-Drone Hoodie (hoodieblog.com) Stealth Wear:…

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  • 33% of seafood is mislabeled in NYC

    Study Finds A Third Of NYC’s Seafood Is Mislabeled, Posing Health Risks Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (J Dailey)It isn’t just Los Angeles that is having a problem with mislabeled fish — a new study that tested seafood on menus, at grocery stores and in fancy specialty shops in New York City says plenty of the…

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  • Why you should not build expensive cities near salt water

    FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse? By Colin Lecher, popsci.com The white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials trying to fix it on a ticking clock. Sandy crip­pled the NYC sub­way sys­tem this week, knock­ing out power, dam­ag­ing switch­es, and dump­ing… http://flpbd.it/udDia…

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