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18 Feb 23:13
Internet trolls are trolls in real life, too
by Ariana Tobin
None!This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that people sometimes say mean things about me on Twitter.
And in our comments section.
And in our emails.
And letters.
And cards they send sometimes, too.
But anyway, researchers at the University of Manitoba have a new study out that shows that people who troll online are often jerks in real life.
So there.
New scientific evidence is in
18 Feb 14:24
Calvin and Hobbes for February 14, 2014
None!so i cannot find the original threads, so i am going to share here:
1. Vladimir Poutin Flappy bird: http://deidealewereld.vier.be/vladibird/
2. http://i.imgur.com/2qyTkVp.jpg
thanks reddit.
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18 Feb 13:49
Fleeting Sheep
"I saw this herd of sheep while driving in the mountains outside the town of Al Bahah during a photography trip to Saudi Arabia," says Arshad Syed, a member of National Geographic Your Shot. "The light was parallel to the slope, and the white sheep were glowing."
Syed had stopped the car and, not wanting to lose time retrieving his tripod from the trunk, rested his camera on the car's hood and zoomed in to fill the frame. "I looked at the camera to see the result, and when I went to take a few more pictures, the herd had disappeared," he says. "It was an irresistible moment to capture—it looked like a cave drawing."
This photo was submitted to Your Shot. Check out the new and improved website, where you can share photos, take part in assignments, lend your voice to stories, and connect with fellow photographers from around the globe.
18 Feb 13:41
Saving an Endangered British Species: The Pub
by By DANNY HAKIM
None!yeah, hard to find a good free pub these days.
Changing economics and tastes in Britain have claimed roughly one out of every five “locals” in the last 20 years.
    
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15 Feb 14:32
A brief history of snow removal
by Ethan Lindsey
None!requires a click through.
What happened to the good ol' snow shovel?
15 Feb 14:31
What happens at Netflix when House of Cards goes live
by Ariana Tobin
None!they sit in a room and count all the money they will make.
A dispatch from the Netflix war room during last season's launch.
15 Feb 14:26
The Elegance of the Egret
None!looks like a painting. AND this is NJ! i'm glad my contributions are going towards something.
"I was driving through the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey on a foggy morning and noticed this egret in the water, hunting," writes Howard Williams, a member of National Geographic Your Shot. "The water was so still it was like a mirror, and there was just enough light to see it."
This photo was submitted to Your Shot. Check out the new and improved website, where you can share photos, take part in assignments, lend your voice to stories, and connect with fellow photographers from around the globe.
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14 Feb 15:18
A graphical history of cable consolidation
by Ethan Lindsey
Tracking the history of the cable industry.
14 Feb 12:11
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Barbie?
by Ariana Tobin
What could be more fitting for Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue than Barbie, in her first swimsuit from 1959?
14 Feb 12:07
In which Goldman Sachs screws up
by Ariana Tobin
None!Cosmetics mirrors and nail files.
Guess what they gave attendees at their "Women in Computer Science" event
14 Feb 11:59
Kraft takes artificial preservatives out of its singles
by Ariana Tobin
And your grilled cheese sandwich will never be the same
13 Feb 14:09
Facebook is dead. Long live Facebook.
by Ariana Tobin
The company looks a lot better to investors than it did a year ago
13 Feb 13:42
Goldfish have longer attention spans than Americans, and the publishing industry knows it
by Tommy Andres
None!house of cards on friday
The New York Times published an article that described something called "series publishing." It's not an entirely new concept, but it's a big pivot away from the one-title-per-year model most of the industry has been abiding by for decades.
Publishers are now rolling out shorter books faster and faster, and Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn says it's largely because we're getting less attentive and more anxious:
"The average American attention span in 2013 was about 8 seconds. The average attention span in 2000 was 12 seconds. And then get this kicker - the average attention of a goldfish is 9 seconds."
too bad they wont release HoC tomorrow. would be a good snow in.
Book publishers are taking a page from Netflix's binge-watching-centric business model
12 Feb 18:47
How do rental car companies make money?
by Ariana Tobin
None!hint: insurance.
And seriously, what's with those key chains you can't take apart?
12 Feb 17:31
Should the post office sell personal loans?
by Celeste Wesson
None!post office is going to do pay day loans. i am ok with that.
Providing basic financial services could bolster the post office's income
12 Feb 14:48
Silicon Galley? Seeking innovation off-shore
by Ethan Lindsey
None!Mutabdjiza would like to put a collection of floating dorms and offices just past the limit of current US immigration law, about 12 miles out to sea. The "venture capital row" near Stanford is about 30 minutes away from this wharf.
comparison to pirate radio
some interest. risk is that there could be real pirates.
A new generation of pioneers is seeking to create their own communities where the focus is on innovation for business outside of the mainstream -- and outside of the United States.
12 Feb 12:32
Yukon Night
None!a small shed in the woods.
The aurora borealis dances above Robert Bruce’s smokehouse on a cold autumn night on the Porcupine River in Canada's Yukon. When Bruce was seven years old, his parents taught him how to butcher the caribou and smoke the fish that sustain the Vuntut Gwitchin people—among the last in North America to meet most of their nutritional needs through hunting and gathering—through the long Arctic winters.
See more pictures from the February 2014 feature story “Yukon: Canada’s Wild West."
Learn what drives Paul Nicklen to protect the polar regions of the world »
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11 Feb 21:36
On the Street…West 33rd St., New York
by The Sartorialist
None!if capes come back into style ... that would be AWESOME
11 Feb 20:47
What kind of stock photo says "working women"?
by Ariana Tobin
Getty Images and Lean In are putting together alternatives to women climbing ladders and smiling at their salads
11 Feb 12:31
The 9 weirdest cities that have hosted the Olympics (and why!)
by Ethan Lindsey
None!Melbourne & Stockholm. That's right, the 1956 Summer Games
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The 9 weirdest cities that have hosted the Olympics (and why!)
ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images
A picture taken in Moscow on October 6, 2013, shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin holding a torch during a ceremony to mark the start of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay across Russia.
by Marc Sollinger
February 6, 2014 - 12:05pm
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With the Winter Olympics starting, the world’s attention is drawn toward Sochi, a small and sunny resort city in the Southwestern corner of Russia. And with that attention, a question. Why Sochi?
It does seem strange to choose a city known for its beach and palm trees to host something called the Winter Olympics, but strange city choices aren’t new to the Games. So without further ado, here are the nine oddest choices to host the Olympics:
Melbourne & Stockholm. That's right, the 1956 Summer Games were held in two entirely different cities, in two entirely different countries, and on two entirely different continents. No, track athletes didn’t run the 100 meters in Melbourne and then take a flight to Stockholm to compete in the 200 meters. Melbourne was picked as the host city and nearly all of the events happened there, but because of Australia’s strict quarantine laws, the equestrian events had to be held in Stolkholm. The Olympic organizers were not aware of these laws before they picked Melbourne, and by the time the International Olympic Committee learned of them, it was already too late to do anything about it.
Helsinki 1952 summer
Squaw Valley, Calif 1960 winter
St. Louis. The choice for the 1904 Summer Olympics
Montreal. 1976 summer (paid off in 2006)
Moscow & Los Angeles 1980 / 1984
Sochi
Surprised that the Olympics are in a Russian city you've never heard of?
11 Feb 09:20
Toyota will stop making cars in Australia by 2017
by Shea Huffman
None!lots of not good down under.
A grim domino effect for car manufacturing in Australia.
10 Feb 14:56
Street Cleaning Enforcement Suspended Due to Ice
by dbryan
None!son of a b!tch! moved for nothing.
Street cleaning enforcement for plowing will remain suspended until temperatures rise above freezing. Due to icy conditions, plowing of parking lanes will not take place in order to avoid damage to plows. While residents are not required to move their vehicles, the City will be using a backhoe to clear ice from open parking areas where possible.