January 2012
Flooding will be Britain's biggest climate risk... →
climateadaptation:
“New government-funded research has identified the top 100 effects of climate change and their expected impact on Britain and magnitude over this century.
The “Climate Change Risk Assessment” found that if no further action is taken to address climate change, annual flood damage to buildings could reach between 2.1 billion and 12 billion pounds, compared to current costs...
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online →
maiziyada:
An amazing source of Darwin information.
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Stop ACTA: secretive treaty will bring in the... →
areweshootingyet:
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is the notorious, unprecedented secret copyright treaty that was negotiated by industry representatives and government trade reps, without any access by elected representatives, independent business, the press, public interest groups, legal scholars, independent economists and so on. Time and again, the world’s richest governmental...
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“Quiet people have the loudest minds”
– Stephen Hawking (via geekybee)
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“We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
– Noam Chomsky (via kingdomskies)
“Federal agents grew more brazen. They created a site selling weight-loss...”
– Con Artist Starred in Sting That Cost Google Millions - WSJ.com (via thisistheverge)
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Lego man in space: one (very) small step
Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras to a balloon carrying the toy astronaut 24km above Earth. A week after launch they recovered their Lego man in a field, and discovered they had captured stunning...
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Watchmashable:
Mashable CEO and Founder Pete Cashmore hosted a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about SOPA with U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales, Google SVP and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Scribd Cofounder and CEO Trip Adler.
The convo, part of Mashable’s Documented@Davos program at Davos, includes discussion of a new bill, ACTA - the...
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Synopsis For "The Amazing Spider-Man" Released
populationgo:
Plot details are still fairly sparse, but what appears to be the official plot synopsis for the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man was recently unveiled by The Times of India, before it hit all major news outlets.
Hit the break for details.
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“HTML5 has entered the online video market, which is both exciting and...”
– The State Of HTML5 Video
Some interesting results here. What really jumps out at me is the browser breakdown: despite Apple’s massive gains over the last half-decade, less than 5% of all internet users (in this survey) use Safari. Throw in the mobile version on all those iPads and iPhones and...
Star Party at Griffith Observatory - January 2012 →
Public star parties at Griffith Observatory “are a chance for the whole family to look at the sun, moon, visible planets, and other objects, to try out a variety of telescopes, and to talk to knowledgeable amateur astronomers about the sky and their equipment.”
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WatchNeil deGrasse Tyson speaks on Newt’s plan for a moon base.
Dr. Tyson brings reality to the discussion again. You can’t say “Government is too big” in one sentence, and then say “we’re gonna build a moon base” in the next. Every major expansion into a new frontier in history has been a government funded project.
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Transit: Democratic Republic of Congo
Espen Rasmussen, photography editor for Norway’s largest newspaper VG, has worked with the Nobel Peace center in Oslo on a multimedia project that documents some of the 43 million displaced people around the world.
Called Transit, the seven-year-old project “shows the daily life in a refugee camp in DR Congo, the loss of beloved...
Google Science Fair 2012 →
Everyone has a question. What is yours?
The World’s Fastest Movie Is Shot at A Quadrillion... →
contemplatingmadness:
The Hobbit being shot 48 fps? Pathetic. MIT’s trillion fps camera? Pokey at best. Just wait until you see the video a team of German researchers have created. It’s two frames long, lasts just 50 femtoseconds, and doesn’t star Nic Cage.
The film, which runs 800 billion times faster per second than a conventional Hollywood feature was created with an X-ray laser. The team,...
Lock manufacturer Yale soon will be selling...
cecilialiao:
Yale’s NFC-enabled locks can be opened via smartphones equipped with NFC. Through the special app launched within the phone, user can unlock the door using a pin number. And for the forgetful consumers who forgot to charge their phones, these locks can be opened with a traditional key. Forgetful customers who left their keys behind might be out of luck though!
I wonder what the...
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