30 August 2012

Resource Conflict 2.0? ~ Corporate Grab for Africa

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AlJaz OpEd piece by OpenOil founder Johnny West spots The corporate scramble for Africa , arguing that... "If it continues to be busin...
29 August 2012

LOOM ~ Luke Scott's Dystopic SF Short Film...

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io9 spots LOOM ...
28 August 2012

Surviving Jo'Burg ~ ReelAfrican on SA Unhinged

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ReelAfrican hosts Surviving Jo'Burg documentary...

Cat's Eye Nebula ~ NASA Hubble Shot is APOD

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Lovely NASA APOD of Cat's Eye Nebula !
27 August 2012

Epic Arnie ~ Making of Top Schwarzenfilms !-)

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And T2 too!

Getting Better ~ Kenny Writes In Praise of Slums

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Getting Better author Charles Kenny writes in the latest Foreign Policy Cities issue In Praise of Slums , that... "...slums are b...

NYC Skyline ~ UrbanPeek on 1876-2013 Change

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DailyMail spots NYC Skyline changes from 1876-2013 on UrbanPeek!

Ultimate Propagandist ~ Bernays, Father of PR...

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Thanks to Karl Smallwood, Jack Hall, Sara Ohlms for their piece in Cracked on The 7 Sneakiest Ways Corporations Manipulated Human Behavior ...
26 August 2012

Scenic Rails ~ Palmerston, NZ's Esplanade RR!

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I love specialty rail systems, for example, the boutique mini-train Palmerston North Esplanade Scenic Railway in New Zealand! Here's ...

Big Dig ~ Boston's Translogistics Gigaproject

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People complained while it was under construction -- and it certainly had its share of accidents, overruns, delays, and disasters -- but whe...
25 August 2012

R.I.P. Neil Armstrong ~ The First Man on Moon...

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Sad word just arrived and his family shares that 82 year old Neil Armstrong has passed away. He was commander of the Apollo 11 lunar ...
24 August 2012

Insane in the Membrane ~ BBrains Cephalo-iPod!

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Kottke spots hilarious Backyard Brains Cephalo-iPod ... "[They] hooked an iPod up to a squid in such a way that when the music play...
23 August 2012

Stellar Sizes ~ Comparing Earth to Sun to Stars!

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UniqueDaily spots the really big stars !
22 August 2012

Saturn's Auroras ~ Southern Lights on Ringworld!

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Check out the Auroras on Saturn !
21 August 2012

More Natural Beauty ~ Lovely Animal Images!

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Lovely animal images-of-the-day... See also DailyMail's mini-me animal photogallery !

Upper Limits? ~ Exploring Skyscraper Constraints

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Paul at GeekPress spots Atlantic piece by Nick Berg asking Is There a Limit to How Tall Buildings Can Get? "The responses [...] ten...

Flocksourcing ~ User-Driven Bus Nets in Dhaka

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Newly done MIT alum Albert Ching shares his Flocksourcing thesis! Open publication - Free publishing - More bangladesh
20 August 2012

Old Ironsides ~ Constitution Sails Again on 200th!

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CNN spots the USS Constitution sailing again in Boston Harbor... "...to commemorate the 200th anniversary of her victory over a B...
18 August 2012

ANC Hypocrisy? ~ Bloody Rulers of Modern SA...

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Al Jaz reveals the hypocrisy of today's ANC rulers of South Africa...
17 August 2012

Perfectly Round ~ Sun Natural Sphere sez BBC

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Gripping revelation from the BBC's CBBC -- The sun is the most perfect natural sphere, study shows ! "Scientists measuring the sun...