31 March 2013

Watching Earth ~ NASA ISS & Shuttle Views...

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NASA APOD spotlights lovely Earth at Night timelapse... And see also key Earth features called out...

Ed Boyden ~ MIT Neuroengineer on CNN Ideas

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Nice piece by Elizabeth Landau on CNN Ideas spotlighting MIT neuroengineering colleague Ed Boyden ... "The seeds of Boyden's ca...
30 March 2013

ColaLife ~ Coke Distributes AidPod Health Kits...

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WIRED's Tim Maly writes about Clever Packaging: Essential Medicine Rides Coke’s Distribution Into Remote Villages ... "Simon B...

MemTable ~ Seth Hunter's Group Thinkertool...

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Check out Seth Hunter's still-impressive Media Lab Master's thesis from 2009, the MemTable ... "...an interactive touch tab...

Japan Economy Map ~ Firm Logos Geolocated

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In sister map to German Economy Map , here Map Porn spots Japanese firm HQ's via logos placed on map of the home islands...
29 March 2013

Icey Timelapses ~ Ginormous Glacial Shiftings...

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Several timelapse videos showing massive glacial shifts, first gCaptain spots NASA Earth Observatory clip of Extensive Ice Fractures in ...

Power of Nature ~ BBC on Earth Ecosystems...

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Check out lovely BBC series on the Power of Nature ...

Pope of Foam ~ On The Art and Science of Beer

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io9 spots the Pope of Foam revealing the art and science of beer...
28 March 2013

Normal Cycling ~ Wagenbuur Spots NL Rushours

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Just a couple nice pieces by Mark Wagenbuur showing normal cycling in the Netherlands. First, in his latest video he spotlights rush hour ...

Thought For Food ~ Innovation Challenge 2013

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Thought For Food launches their innovation challenge 2013 which... "...calls on students from universities around the world to form t...

Freedom in the 50 States ~ Mercatus Rankings...

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Dan Mitchell of International Liberty spotlights Mercatus Center's Ranking the States for Economic and Personal Freedom ...

More How It's Made ~ UD on Everyday Artifacts!

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Thanks to UniqueDaily for spotting a whole series of the fantastic How It's Made videos, including a whole bunch on everyday artifacts...

Found in a Crowd ~ De-Anonymizing Mobile Data

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MIT Media Lab colleagues Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye and Cesar Hidalgo plus collaborators write in their recent Scientific Reports paper Uni...
27 March 2013

IllumiRoom ~ Microsoft's Immersive Gamespace

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Interesting to see Microsoft's IllumiRoom futuregaming projectorama in piece by GameDynamo's JC Marx... And here's full dem...

Flying Paper ~ Resilient Creative Kids Make Kites!

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Check out latest trailer from upcoming Flying Paper kids and kites documentary by MIT Media Lab alum Nitin Sawhney and colleague Roger Hill...

Shark Food ~ Great Whites Sample SA's Seals!

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Photographer Chris McClennan spots shark smorgasbord... And ITM Phantom camera captures these morsels in motion...
26 March 2013

Stop The Cyborgs ~ Neo-Luddite Manifesto...

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Neo-Luddite manifesto seeks to Stop The Cyborgs writes BBC in Privacy 'impossible' with Google Glass warn campaigners ... "...

Right to Stay ~ Fighting Kenyan Slum Evictions...

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MIT Urban Africa's Ben Bradlow spots The Right to Stay ...
24 March 2013

Comet PANSTARRS ~ Chris Cook's Sunset Foto

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Lovely foto by Chris Cook of Comet PANSTARRS on NASA APOD ...

Steve Jobs ~ Collection of Docu's and Best Of's...

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Steve Jobs ~ One Last Thing... BBC's Steve Jobs ~ Billion Dollar Hippy... Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs... Steve Jobs Building ...