The TSA needs help—bad. The agency and its blue-shirted officers have never been the most popular kids on the block, but things got worse last week when a former employee …
Daily Archives: 04.02.2014
Beijing’s Bacterial Smog, Black Market Cigarettes, and an Avalanche!
By Sarah Zhang
Beijing’s smog, the West’s drought, Alaska’s avalanche, and everybody’s cigarettes are part of this week’s landscape reads.
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Inside the Fakes Factory: My Chat With a Viral Image Creator
By Matt Novak on Paleofuture, shared by Brian Barrett to Gizmodo
It’s an astounding sight: Buddha carved into a tall rock formation at the …
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From Tablets to TVs: What’s Next For Display Tech in 2014
By Dr. Raymond M. Soneira – Displaymate Technologies
Starting in 2010 when Apple made the retina display and display quality a central theme for their product marketing, displays have moved up from the doldrums into an unprecedented renaissance of new display technologies for smartphones, tablets, TVs, and entirely new classes of products like wearable displays.
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These alien landscapes are made of the most common material on Earth
By Attila Nagy on Sploid, shared by Brian Barrett to Gizmodo
A nebula in space? The surface of a faraway planet? A fantastic sci-fi illustration? Or just microscopic goo? …
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This Bluegrass Cover of Elton John’s ‘Rocketman’ Is Finger-Pickin’ Good
In the Smoky Mountains, where I grew up, bluegrass is a way of life. Every Friday night, about a mile from my house, an abandoned old schoolhouse becomes one big jam session, and sometimes, when the weather is nice, it moves outside under the stars with the moonlight casting shadows onto the red Tennessee dirt.
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