Where are all the nuclear power plants?
At Nature blogs, Declan Butler has put together a really info-dense mapping of the world’s nuclear power plants, using Google Earth. Nifty stuff for anybody whose interest in nuclear power has gone up significantly in recent weeks…
Continue reading… “Google Map of the World’s Nuclear Power Plants”
For reasons unknown, Microsoft has changed the settings on Hotmail to disable HTTPS for users in several countries including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Hotmail users in those countries can now be readily spied upon by ISPs and their governments. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has some good perspective…
Excentricity
It’s like something straight out of the mind of Tim “The Toolman” Taylor … but German. This is hands-down the craziest road vehicle we’ve seen in a long, long time.
Continue reading… “Excentricity – Crazy Road Vehicle Powered by Screwdrivers”
California patients wait for assistance at a marijuana dispensary.
It is called a lot of things: grass, pot, Mary Jane, wacky weed. Now, researchers are suggesting a new moniker for marijuana: alternative investment.
Continue reading… “Legal Pot is Sound Business at $1.7 Billion and Growing”
Aerial photography
When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. Aerial photography is one of the key sources of inspiration. For those who don’t know what is “Aerial view” or “Bird’s-eye view” in terms of photography then aerial view defined as a view of an object from above, as though the observer were a bird.
Continue reading… “Incredible Aerial Photography – Part 1”
Artificial dyes in food are not just limited to candy.
Push a cart down a supermarket aisle, and you’ll pass a kaleidoscope of color. The use of artificial dyes by foodmakers is up by half since 1990, and it’s not limited to candy. The list of foods made pretty by chemicals now includes pickles, bagels and port wine cheese balls.
Continue reading… “Food Dye’s May be Linked to Hyperactivity in Children”
What cities played it late this year?
Thanks to the people over at TurboTax we have a list of the top late-filing cities. This year’s ranking of late-filing cities are…
Continue reading… “Top 10 Cities of Tax Procrastinators”
Superflex, a group of Danish artists, have created a 240-hour film titled Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki) and will screen it in Helsinki for the festival IHME Project 2011.
The film shows ‘ravages of time marking a box-like office block, Helsinki’s Stora Enso building,’ and they are in fact projecting the film on that same building. In the film, ‘centuries of decay are apparently compressed into the span’ of the 10-day runtime…
Continue reading… “The Longest Film Of All-Time Screening In Helsinki, Finland”
It’s nearly the weekend, which means that it’s nearly time to make bad decisions, likely with phone in hand. While the tech world can’t stop you from shamelessly making out with that girl in that dive bar, it can wipe away all graphic mentions of how you did so from your Twitter stream.
Enter Last Night Never Happened, a rather well-made novelty iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app from22seeds. The app’s purpose? It deletes posts, photos, comments, tweets and direct messages from your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Unfortunately, you can’t delete as much from Facebook as you might like — merely comments and photos…
Continue reading… “Erase Last Night’s Indiscretions From Facebook & Twitter”
FINALLY!
OMG! We can’t accuse our BFF Oxford English Dictionary with being behind the times anymore. The OED has finally managed to get with the program (LOL!)…
Continue reading… “OMG and LOL Added to the OED”
A new rodent living in treetops was discovered recently in the Atlantic Forest, one of Brazil’s most-ravaged ecosystems, according to a report.
The foot-long creature, referred to as a white-spotted mountain rat or “Drymoreomys albimaculatus,” lives at an altitude of 1,000 meters in mountain ranges in southeast Brazil, biologist Alexandre Percequillo told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper…
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Dependence on Mom and Dad prepares them to be successful adults.
Generation Y is often thought of as a slacker group of young adults who have failed to launch, delaying real careers and families until later in life. But new research suggests their heavy dependence on Mom and Dad might ultimately prepare them to be successful adults.
Continue reading… “Gen Y Just Slow Starters, Not Slackers: Study”
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