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Matt WozniskiAnd also this: http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/hc/05062013/
Hey everyone! Not sure if we’ve shared this already, but our buddy Will made a very cool video a while back that guest stars some of our comics:
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Matt WozniskiAnd also, this: http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/hc/04292013/
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Don't Look for Talent, Find People Who Do Things
Matt WozniskiWait, advice from Tucker Max about hiring people? What!?
The Physics Behind Traffic Jams
Matt WozniskiSo, I wonder - given the (well accepted, as I understand) premise that a single car can reduce the area impacted by a traffic jam, does it follow that if many cars could coordinate based on knowledge of each other, traffic jams could be eliminated? Could someone make an app that uses GPS and THE CLOUD to tell people how to drive in order to eliminate a traffic jam?
If so, it might well take off, even if it's just as mindless entertainment for the people who are used to dealing with traffic jams every day - trying to follow orders from a device on your dash telling you to average 35 mph for the next 2 miles makes for a more interesting ride than playing "watch the brakelights" and mirroring the actions of the car in front of you, which seems at least to be my default behavior in heavy traffic when I turn my brain off...
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Matt WozniskiThis is an interesting idea...
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Matt WozniskiI wonder how this'll stack up against The Old Reader...
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A reader nominates a pleasant woman in a South Park hijab:
The Reddit comments are priceless:
For those of you scratching your heads:
Hydrogen Resurgent?
by Doug Allen
Stephen Webster points to new hydrogen fuel research:
Researchers at Virginia Tech announced Thursday that their latest breakthrough in hydrogen extraction technology could lead to widespread adoption of the substance as a fuel due to its ease of availability in virtually all plant matter, a reservoir previously impossible to tap. The new process, described by a study in the April issue of the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie, uses a cocktail of 13 enzymes to strip plant matter of xylose, a sugar that exists in plant cells. The resulting hydrogen is of an such a “high purity” that researchers said they were able to approach 100 percent extraction, opening up a potential market for a much cheaper source of hydrogen than anything available today. …
The rise of such an alternative fuel could seriously disrupt the pollution-producing industries that run on oil and natural gas, and potentially spark a new industrial emphasis on growing plants with high levels of xylose in their cells. The environmental benefits of that potential future are twofold: the plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping in small part to address the climate crisis, and the resulting portable fuel only outputs water when burned.
Less than ten years ago, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) were touted as the solution to the transportation sectors fossil fuel woes. The electric car was dead, while Governor Schwarzenegger announced the development of a statewide hydrogen refueling infrastructure to help spur the hydrogen car’s transition to a commercially available vehicle. At the time, I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on the costs and benefits of Schwarzenegger’s plan, arguing that the high cost of both the cars themselves and the pathways for producing hydrogen fuel made it unclear that the future for HFCVs was any brighter than that for electric vehicles.
Hydrogen technology failed to improve, while advancements in batteries resurrected hopes for the electric car. Now there’s an electric car commercially available (though it’s not cheap) and hydrogen has largely faded from the alternative fuel discussion.
This newest finding is a step in the right direction, but I’m not ready to call it a “gamechanger” for the transportation sector yet. The experience in the early ’00s showed that there’s a significant difference between technologies that seem nearly ready for market (like the HFCV) and technologies that can actually be brought to market (like the Tesla Roadster). I look forward to tests of this new technology on a larger scale, and declines in the cost of HFCVs themselves, but I’m not holding my breath.
Lunch Ladies Teach Middle Schoolers About Debt, Trash Their Lunches If They Owe Money
No lunch for you!
It’s never too early for kids to learn that living in revolving debt is bad, but how you get that lesson across is a tricky thing. For example, let’s say that you’re the contractor that serves school lunches in a middle school, and you take away the trays of children whose parents owe the lunch vendor money and toss a few dozen perfectly edible meals in the trash. This would be a bad way to teach kids about debt.
Yet it happened at a Massachusetts middle school, where lunchroom staff apparently had had enough with debtor students. One source reports that kids who owed as little as five cents had to toss their food, and another station reported that the threshold was $1. What we do know for sure is that the kids were served food, and then it was thrown away.
School officials say that this scheme was solely the work of the lunch vendor, and management at the lunch vendor claims that it was the front-line employees who decided to shame and starve kids who owed money on their prepaid lunch cards.
“Employees had taken it upon themselves to institute this change; it was not condoned or approved,” a spokesman for the company told TV station WJAR. Teachers didn’t learn about it until students complained to them.
The cafeteria workers have since apologized. “Their intent was not to humiliate or upset the students,” the school principal explained to a local FOX affiliate, “which I stated to them they had done.”
Students with no lunch credit told to throw school lunches away [FOX Boston] (Thanks, Christine!)
No noon meal for kids in debt at middle school [CNN]