February 2012
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Watchfaketv:
Sheer awesome?
theatlanticvideo:
Terrifying Flying Robot Quadrotors Perform the ‘James Bond’ Theme
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar, demonstrate the agility of their autonomous quadrotors by programming them to plunk out the James Bond theme music on a room...
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“The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have...”
– Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?”
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“But can we please admit that many four year colleges do in fact attempt to...”
– Conor Friedersdorf
Let’s hear it. Is Conor wrong?
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Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Georges Méliès’s 1902 Classic, ‘A Trip to the Moon’
The iconic sci-fi short went on to inspire countless films, including Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.
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Mother Jones obtains Syrian government hit list... →
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producermatthew:
From Mother Jones:
A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the document—essentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabic—say they...
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Kickstarter Expects to Provide More Funding Than... →
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Why Astronauts Crave Tobasco Sauce →
discoverynews:
Part of the reason may be that after arriving in space, astronauts lose their sense of smell, which largely governs the pleasurable taste of food. An example of this is coffee. “If you hold your nose and sip your coffee, you’re getting just a bitter liquid,” says Jean Hunter, a food engineer at Cornell University.
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“[W]hen thinking about difficult, exciting, interesting activities, such as...”
– The neuroscience of the constant tug-of-war between rationality and intuition in a world that sees them as a binary divide. (via)
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“We already know that language is special; no other aspect of cognition...”
– Jessica Love compares mathematics to language. (via theamericanscholar)
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Australian Woman Scams More Than $30,000 From... →
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'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
