“The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. . . . Take their talking points and put them on the air. Take their opposition research and put them on the air, and that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”
via washingtonpost
No tech company would expect its engineers to hunt down that information using an 8-year-old computer. Yet some let their workers limp along with an 8-year-old browser that has inspired a movement dedicated to taking it behind the proverbial shed and putting it down. I refer to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, which will be virtually unusable within a couple of years, possibly much sooner.
Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen.
via Brain Scans Reveal What You’ve Seen | Wired Science | Wired.com.
In May 2008, the Department of Energy announced that it would award $10 million to the first company that developed a solid-state lamp that could replace a standard bulb.
via Is This the Light Bulb of the Future? – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com.
In an ambitious attempt to assess how humans are doing as stewards of planet earth, 28 leading scientists have drawn up a list of nine “planetary boundaries” that must not be crossed if we want to avoid drastically changing the global environment and imperiling our own existence.
via 9 Eco Rules Humans Shouldn’t Break If We Want to Survive | 80beats | Discover Magazine.
Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
via The Associated Press: Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57.
The iPhone has done it again. I’m going to have to replace the question “there’s an app for that?” to “there isn’t an app for that?” At this point, it’s the things that Apple hasn’t thought of already that surprise me the most.
Google's developing new solar tech that will drop the cost from 18 cents a kW-h to just under 5. At least, it's hoping to.
via Google’s Custom Solar Technology Will Reduce Costs by 60% : TreeHugger.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans for a new carbon tax aimed at combating global warming.
I recently saw an incredible documentary about a Manhattan couple who lived “no impact” for a year. This means they did all they could to drastically reduce their carbon footprint, for a whole year.
via No Impact Man (and wife) discuss the joys of their small carbon footprint .
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