30 April 2013

Glowing Plant ~ Sustainable Natural Lighting!

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Check out Glowing Plant synthetic biology Kickstarter project!
28 April 2013

Future Africa ~ Economist's Ledgard on Afrotech

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Join us this Monday, April 29, 2013 at 1pm at MIT Media Lab E14-633 6th floor lecture hall for Future Africa talk by Jonathan Ledgard , D...
23 April 2013

Sun Timelapse ~ 3yrs of NASA's Solar Dynamics

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io9 spots NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory timelapse...
21 April 2013

Plotting History ~ Longterm Human Trendlines...

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Lisa Wade spotlights a History of American Energy Use ... Arnulf Grüblera, Nebojša Nakićenovića, and David Victor plot the Dynamics of ener...

Free & Equal ~ Hirsi Ali on Women's Rights...

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Thanks to Friendly Athiest Hemant Mehta for spotting What Does It Really Mean for Women to be ‘Free & Equal’? A Talk by Ayaan Hirsi Ali...

The Chosen Few? ~ Explaining Jewish Success...

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Fascinating piece in Paul Solman's PBS Newshour Business Desk column on The Chosen Few: A New Explanation of Jewish Success by Mariste...

FingerLink ~ Fujitsu's Gestural I/O GUI System...

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Alex Santoso at Neatorama spots Fujitsu FingerLink ... Reminds me of MIT Media Lab work, especially John Underkoffler's 1999 I/O Bulb...
20 April 2013

Ready Rx ~ Atul Gawande on Boston Hospitals...

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Dr Atul Gawande shares in the New Yorker a bit about how and Why Boston's Hospitals Were Ready ... "The bombs at the Boston Mara...
19 April 2013

Dutch Junctions ~ Clear, Safe, Connected for All

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Mark Wagenbuur at BicycleDutch seeks to answer, for cycling infrastructure, What qualifies as Dutch Design? "Dutch junctions are ver...
17 April 2013

Innovate Planet ~ Sierra Leone's David Sengeh!

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Sierra Leonean MIT grad student David Sengeh on CNN ...

Sun Flaring ~ NASA Spots Solar Dynamics

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Lovely false-color Sun Flaring on NASA APOD!
16 April 2013

Boston Bombs ~ Can Defense & Security Work?

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Today more terrorist atrocities. Again wondering if US$Trillions spent on "defense" and "homeland security" and "c...
14 April 2013

C'était un Rendez-vous ~ Claude Lelouch in Paris!

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Kevin Slavin suggests C'était un rendez-vous to prepare for Paris! Route followed...
13 April 2013

City of Anarchy ~ Old Kowloon Infographic!

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Mapporn spots Old Kowloon Walled City infographic! See also Kowloon Cross-Section !

Hyperpolyglot ~ 16yo Speaks 26 Lingos!

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John Farrier at Neatorama spots ITN story on Timothy Donor 16-Year Old Can Speak 23 Languages...
11 April 2013

MIT International Development Night ~ 13 April '13

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Join friends and colleagues and especially our development innovators showcasing their working prototypes and projects at the latest MIT ...

We The People ~ D'Ignazio's Petition Mapper...

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MIT Civic Media's Catherine D'Ignazio released the demo We the People petition mapper that she created during the White House hacka...

From A to B ~ van der Vleuten's Parcelcam;-)

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24Oranges spots Ruben van der Vleuten's From A to B parcel post video...
08 April 2013

Ring Nebula ~ NASA Composites Celestial M57

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NASA APOD spots Ring Nebula !
06 April 2013

WTC Timelapse ~ EarthCam on Reconstruction

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NY spots EarthCam timelapse of WTC reconstruction...