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pocketforest asked: Thanks for the follow back. I dig your blog for sure.
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The Amazing Cell Phone that Charges in Your Pocket →
emergentfutures:
Batteries are included, but the charger’s not. The Nokia E-Cu concept phone doesn’t need to plug in, it charges from any heat source. Just lay it on top of a radiator and it starts soaking in the energy.
Full Story: Good Technology
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Tevatron: top quarks may indicate new particle,... →
Even as it’s slated for retirement, Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider may be providing its successor, the Large Hadron Collider, with directions to some new physics. Recently, researchers with the Tevatron’s CDF detector started discussing results that they submitted to the arXiv at the end of last year. The draft paper suggests that top quark pairs that originate in the...
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The HydroPack Is Like a Capri Sun Pouch for... →
The HTI HydroPack is like an empty Capri Sun pouch with powdered nutrients inside. But it’s really a filter you can drop in any water source—a swimming pool, a mud puddle, a contaminated aquifer—and eight to twelve hours later the pack has filled itself with potable, fortified water.
The makers, Hydration Technology Innovations, hope communities prone to flooding—like Mudimbia,...
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Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in... →
These two photos show the same stretch of road—the Great Kanto branch—three days apart. By March 16th, just three days after the earthquake tore it apart, the road was rebuilt to the condition seen in the photo.
1995 article assures you: the internet will not... →
robot-heart-politics:
How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
What the...
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Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love... →
Yes, I still loathe the liars who run the nuclear industry. Yes, I would prefer to see the entire sector shut down, if there were harmless alternatives. But there are no ideal solutions. Every energy technology carries a cost; so does the absence of energy technologies. Atomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest of possible tests, and the impact on people and the planet has...
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WatchUpcycling chopsticks into art - looks like fun
“At the same time, it is also true that the principal alternative to nuclear...”
– David Frum
Interesting thoughts on the whole matter, I do find the whole spectacular versus mundane hazard concept fascinating. -Joe
(via stfuconservatives)
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A Report Card on Web 2 and the App Economy - John... →
An interesting post from John Battelle, comparing the web and app stores in relation to the principles of web 2.0
As I thought through why I have a negative gut reaction to the world of apps as they currently stand, I realized it’s because they violate most of the original principles of what makes the web so great Read...
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A country with no time for climate change... →
khrisjuhlin:
Many people look at developing country with sadden eyes, and often say “oh poor them, they don’t have a computer”. On the other hand, with this kind of attitude, these people will be the ones surviving climate change, as they are already evolving around it, while the westerns are still discussing if we should or not do something. Ignorance. Just do something.
The climate is a...
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Magazine Bowl
wheelsturning:
Finally found a way to repurpose old magazines and the unwanted catalogues that show up in my mailbox.
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/magazine_bowls has some nice instructions