18 April 2011

Getting Better ~ Improving the World Even More

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Thanks to FT review by Alan Beattie for spotting Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding -- and How We Can Improve the World ...

St Paul's ~ Hi-Res 15.5 Gigapixel Panorama!

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Thanks to Ovi Bujorean for spotting amazing 15.5 gigapixel panoramic photograph of St Paul's Cathedral ... Beautiful details. Plus hu...

Lunatic Complexity ~ Taxingly Incompetent...

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The Economist piece on Taxing Complexity quotes Clive Crook... "The lunatic complexity of the US tax code is proof of legislative in...
17 April 2011

WISE ~ NASA's Wide-Field Telescope Imagery!

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Thanks to the DailyMail's Ted Thornhill for spotting NASA's WISE telescope imagery in To boldly go... online: New frontier as Nas...
16 April 2011

Lamborghini ~ Ultimate Auto History on 60'

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Lovely historical piece about Lamborghini on 60 Minutes ...
15 April 2011

Rock, Paper, Scissors ~ You vs the Machine...

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Thanks to Ash Martin for spotting this NYTimes interactive Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer by Gabriel Dance, Tom Jackson, and co...
13 April 2011

Yuri Gagarin ~ Astro Epic Hero Cosmonaut!

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Yuri Gagarin ! First human to journey beyond our cradle and into space! His Vostok spacecraft orbited Earth on April 12, 1961, a half-cen...
11 April 2011

Banning the Burqa ~ Hirsi Ali on True Substance

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Thanks to Cynical-C for spotting courageous infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali commenting Banning the Burqa Misses the Point on Fora.tv ... "It...

Professor Dilbert ~ How to Get a Real Education

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Thanks to Stanford Professor Chuck Eesley for spotting this WSJournal piece by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame on How to Get a Real Education...

Luminoso ~ Consumer Insight Analytics Startup

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Excellent to see MIT Media Lab spinoff Luminoso ramping up their consumer insight analytics venture...
10 April 2011

SAL M/V Lone ~ gCaptain Spots Heavylift Ship!

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gCaptain spots World's Strongest Heavy Lifter ... "The M/V Lone , owned by shipping company S.A.L. of Germany, together with sist...

Answering Molyneux ~ Sinha's Prakash Results!

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Greg Miller writes in Science Now about how Formerly Blind Children Shed Light on a Centuries-Old Puzzle ... "In 1688, an Irish polyma...

Encounter ~ Lovely Spanish Coca Cola Promo!

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Miss Cellania spots Encounter , a lovely piece of promo from Coke!

I am Dutch, am I? ~ Sofia vs Illegitimate Laws

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Thanks to Amy in .nl for spotting I am Dutch, am I? which... "...tells the story of Sofia, whose Columbian father brought her to the ...

Superbus ~ Fast, Efficient Mass Transit!

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24Oranges spots the Superbus ... "...a bus shaped like a race car. Its top speed is 250 kph, to be reached in custom bus lanes. Its ae...

Utrecht ~ Promo Film for my Favorite Dutch City!

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Thanks to Alison from A Flamingo in Utrecht for spotting this promo film for my favorite Dutch city...

Oily Promises ~ Daily Show on the Presidents...

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Bob Kokorda and Ohad Folman spot Daily Show take on Oil Dependency...
09 April 2011

Antonov An-124 ~ Heavy Cargo Superlifter!

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Another in a series of great flight vehicles with roots in Soviet times (e.g. Mi-26 , Be-200 ), this time the Ukranian/Russian Antonov An-12...
08 April 2011

Timemaps ~ Google Earth Historical Imagery

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Rafael Marañón spots Historical Imagery in Google Earth!

The Finland Phenomenon ~ Surprising Schools

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Looking forward to viewing the whole of The Finland Phenomenon : Inside the World's Most Surprising School System ... "Finland’s ed...