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Alemany Farmers Market Gleanings (1)
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We've become quite the farmers market enthusiasts this season, with Saturday's Alemany market being our favorite. We just learned that Alemany is the "grand daddy" of farmers markets and has been at its current location since 1947! Alemany is much more mellow than the Ferry Plaza farmers market, with lots of affordable organic and non-organic options. Alemany's downfall is that it's hard to get to as a pedestrian, and the layout is not conducive to ...Shared by srndpty (0)Contribute comment -
Masterpieces of early photography (3)
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More than 5000 masterpieces of early photography gathered by German site zeno.org. Here they are arranged by photographer. Among the photographers are Eadweard Muybridge, Louis Daguerre, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Jacob Riis and Lewis Carrol. There are way too many interesting photographs in here to mention, so here are but a few: Tolstoy brandishing a pen at Chekov, dapper German, running soldier, old guy and typewriter and men dressed for a costume party.Contribute comment -
...and that little boy's smile... with that slow southern style (2)
onWith black velvet paintings of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Jack Abramoff, Phil Spector, Jon Benet Ramsey, Jesus and a Big Rig, Erik Estrada, Charles Nelson Reilly, Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, and everyone's favorite physicist, Stephen Hawking, velvet paintings aren't just of Elvis, Unicorns, and Aztec Indians anymore.Shared by Jarvitron (18) srndpty (0)Contribute comment
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Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition (18)
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Hugh Pickens writes "For a long time, humans were pretty dumb, doing little but make 'the same very boring stone tools for almost 2 million years,' says Philipp Khaitovich of the Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. Then, 150,000 years ago, our big brains suddenly got smart. We started innovating. We tried different materials. We started creating art and maybe even religion. To understand what caused the cognitive spurt, researchers examined chemical brain processes ...Shared by Aaron (10) beggs (1) Can Özmen (12) Carl (16) Chris (8) Chris Gurney (9) Clay (41) Ilya (27) josep (1) Manuel (2) Nicolás (17) passive (4) srndpty (0) sumidiot (5) Tometheus (14) Vincent van Wylick (20) wolfhesse (6) Zach (57)Explore read four notes- josep said: recordar el trabajo pionero de faustino cordón, "la alimentación, base de la biología evolucionista"
- Tometheus said: Interesting, especially coupled with this recent article :) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/05/eacaveman105.xml
- beggs said: Yea, good food will motivate you.
- Chris said: Millions of house dogs/cats get to eat good food (well, relative to what they'd get if they had to hunt on their own), and they're still dumb as hell. This sounds like no more than some drunk/high guys unprovable theory.
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Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? (13)
onBen Morris writes "A recent judgement in the UK courts has forced a former employee to hand over details of his business contacts built up through LinkedIn.com while he was employed by his former company. The decision is one of the first in the UK to show the tension between businesses encouraging their employees to use social networking websites, and trying to claim that the contacts should remain confidential when they leave."Read more of this ...Shared by _dot_ (0) Duncan (82) Effi Fuks (0) Jakob (28) Jason (80) Jeff (0) Justin Yost (81) Matthew (16) Mike F (460) saxjazman9 (0) srndpty (0) TxVoodoo (30) Yann (26)
- Jakob said: I see this being a "have to read the details." If it was his personal account and he used it to link with business and personal contacts... then it was wrong. If he used linkedin as a part of his job specifically.... then not sure.
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Watching China Turn Off the Pollution (2)
onNewbieV points out coverage of the effort to assess Beijing's air pollution control efforts. Quote from one of the investigators: "This will be a very interesting experiment that can never happen again." Here's the main project scientist's site on the monitoring effort, and Newsweek coverage that brings out a paradoxical effect of reducing pollution on global warming. "Unmanned aerial vehicles are measuring emissions of soot and other forms of black carbon. The instruments are observing ...Shared by chills (1) srndpty (0)Contribute comment
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More impressive than the Kessel Run (3)
onAll across Alaska, radio operators tore their earphones from their heads, swore under their breath, and ran out to find help. The telegram in their hands read: "AN EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA IS ALMOST INEVITABLE HERE STOP I AM IN URGENT NEED OF ONE MILLION UNITS OF DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN STOP MAIL IS ONLY FORM OF TRANSPORTATION STOP I HAVE MADE APPLICATION TO COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OF THE TERRITORIES FOR ANTITOXIN ALREADY STOP THERE ARE ABOUT 3000¢WHITE ...Contribute comment
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Gomphotheres, megafauna, and anachronistic fruits (2)
onOsage orange, avocado, papaya, honey locust, paw paw, persimmon, and many more: fruits that have outlasted the gomphotheres and other megafauna. These "anachronistic fruits" can be a key to understanding their intended consumers. More. More. More. And even more.Shared by deusdiabolus (93) srndpty (0)Contribute comment
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Brain plays key role in appetite by regulating free radicals (2)
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(Yale University) Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found the brain's appetite center uses fat for fuel by involving oxygen free radicals -- molecules associated with aging and neurodegeneration. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, suggest that antioxidants could play a role in weight control.Shared by srndpty (0) tietoukka (101)Contribute comment -
Mapping Out Future Of Intelligent Robots (1)
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The field of robotics could be poised for a breakthrough, leading to a new generation of intelligent machines capable of taking on multiple tasks and moving out of the factory into the home and general workplace. The great success of robots so far has been in automating repetitive tasks in process control and assembly, yielding dramatic cuts in production, but the next step towards cognition and more human-like behaviour has proved elusive. It has been ...Shared by srndpty (0)Contribute comment -
Checking Email in the Bathroom? You’re Far From Alone (31)
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We’ve touched on the subjects of social networking addiction (and fatigue) in the past, but a new survey from AOL Mail shows just how hooked Americans are on email. Among the findings are that 59% of us check our email from the bathroom – no wonder one of the first questions T-Mobile’s customer service asks when you report a malfunctioning device is whether or not there is water damage! The study of 4,000 users also ...Shared by Alan (1) Angel (7) assbach (33) Charlie Hope (1) Christian (56) Cindy Waters (0) David (9) Derick Valadao (15) dobata (366) Drew Olanoff (144) emaynard (2) Harold Neal (6) HejGustav (30) jon|k (17) louisgray (147) Manos Matsakis (5) Mario Hemsley (9) Michael Daehn (10) Mone (6) Nick (6) Nicolai (2) Rey (5) Ricardo.Borelli (9) Ronald van der Putte (0) Satya (8) Shankar Ganesh (62) srndpty (0) Sue B (19) svartling (27) Timo Heuer (14) tonyleachsf (2)Explore read four notes- Ronald van der Putte said: *cough*
- Derick Valadao said: Those stats are mindboggling.
- Ricardo.Borelli said: Percebe-se que as pessoas realmente dão atenção ao que estão fazendo no momento
- Ricardo.Borelli said: Percebe-se que as pessoas realmente dão atenção ao que estão fazendo no momento
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How insects breathe underwater (10)
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MIT mathematicians have learned more about how insects breathe underwater by trapping a layer of air around their bodies. The scientists determined that insects can dive as deep as 30 meters without the bubbles bursting. (Seen here, a Notonecta covered with a respiratory bubble.) From MIT News Office: The air bubble's stability is maintained by hairs on the insects' abdomen, which help repel water from the surface. The hairs, along with a waxy surface coating, ...Shared by André Elias (245) Crossbar (36) Jamin (31) marcell (26) Mike F (460) Mr. Matt (12) pr1000 (16) srndpty (0) Veritas Noctis (38) ydant (15)Contribute comment -
Think About This.... (1)
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I've seen this blurb on Bllomberg several times.We've seen about $450 billion of writedowns in the financial sector.About 85%-90% have come from the US and Europe.Either:1.) Asian banks were really smart and avoided this altogether, or2.) We've got some problems to look forward to.Shared by srndpty (0)Contribute comment -
OPEC 2.0 - AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth ... (Tim Wu/New York Times) (3)
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Tim Wu / New York Times: OPEC 2.0 — AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move information — as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.Contribute comment -
To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror: Rand Corporation (43)
onA new Rand Corporation report comprehensively surveys the ways that terrorist groups have been disbanded in the past: "Military force was rarely the primary reason a terrorist group ended." Instead, historic wars on terror have been won with policing and settlements. Rand's conclusion? To defeat Al Qaeda, we need to end the war on terror. A recent RAND research effort sheds light on this issue by investigating how terrorist groups have ended in the past. ...Shared by Alex Bowyer (1) Andy (23) Awab (23) Awed (2) Ayon J (17) Ayrkain (5) Bill Streeter (30) Brent (6) brizbane (9) Carl (0) Derek Springer (3) Eric (2) euraktiva (122) g b (39) Gerald (2) IBCmass (179) INCyr (29) Jack Teague (4) jaime (2) Jamin (31) JaySpear (3) Jeffrey Langfels (1) jenny (138) Jim (20) Jim (14) Julie (6) lishevita (5) looprock (15) Luis Penados (10) Macky (14) Mark (9) Nathaniel Tapley (13) NeonDemon (45) Nick (73) Olya (1) potentato (25) R. Francis (29) Sol Young (7) srndpty (0) Tad M (0) TO-Double-D (20) Veritas Noctis (38) Zia (4)Contribute comment
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Miscanthus can meet US biofuels goal using less land than corn or switchgrass (1)
on(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources -- by a lot.Shared by srndpty (0)Contribute comment
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G00gl3_C4l3nd4r: H0w t0 Sync 4ny D3skt0p C4l3nd4r w1th G00gl3 C4l3nd4r (348)
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As of yesterday's announcement of CalDAV support in Google Calendar, you can now sync your Google Calendar with virtually any popular desktop calendar for free. Not only can you enjoy your favorite desktop calendar software and still get the benefit of the web interface, you can also sync any desktop calendar with any other across platforms using GCal as a go-between. Let's take a comprehensive look at how to set up bidirectional syncing between Google ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (52) Aaron M. 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- Howard said: The sync to Outlook is not as easy as represented. Setup ok, but sync never actually occurs for me?
- Mezzaphorina said: Awesome!
- John Ranaudo said: Good news for users and website owners
- PouarK said: Vraiment très interressant...
- alicekey said: GCal 在同步這件事，終於有些長進了。
- Dustin Diaz said: And of course, here's the actual how-to for syncing your iCalendar with Google Calendar.
- dKing said: use google calendar synch with ZYB (www.zyb.com) and you have an unofficial corporate kind of setup where your events from outlook automatically get synched with your phone! now never miss a meeting! :)
- ewbrown said: I am so glad that Google Calendar added CalDAV support. I have been waiting for this since the service launched in 2006.
- Moah said: holy crap. thats all I can say before I can assess the impact this will have on my calendar product. who needs any more calendar product when everything is synched with everything else through GCalendar. sigh.. the world is moving too fast and we are not. its a shame
- Christian said: Thanks Joel!
- Glutnix said: About Friggin Time!
- Dorn said: cool!!
- Yusuf said: Yeah, finally Google Calendar equivalent when I am offline
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Brad Templeton on Robocars : great minds think alike (2)
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This site had published an article one week ago about creating robotic car exclusive zones in cities to enable a faster deployment of robotic cars.Brad Templeton has written up several articles about the advantages of robotic cars for revamping the transportation system.Brad's robocar mainpage.Brad looks at the myth of green public transit. Note: public transit can be far more energy efficient in places like asia where there is very high density on the buses and ...
