To document MoMA’s wonderful, monumental exhibit spanning design, science and technology, “Design and the Elastic Mind,” we enlisted the help of the show’s esteemed curator, Paola Antonelli. Paola speaks in detail about several of the exhibits, including “The Afterlife,” a system for turning corpses into batteries, robots that act as personal climatizers and DNA origami. […]
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Online Pharmacy
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Original post by Dave Bullock
Cybercrime Book Excerpt: ‘Zero Day Threat’
Published by March 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsCybercrime has very quickly become a booming industry worth an estimated $100 billion a year. In this extract from Zero Day Threat, a new book about the complicity of big corporations in online crime, USA Today reporters Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz explain the mechanisms of a notorious online scam.
Original post by Byron Acohido and […]
April 1, 1960: First Weather Satellite Launched
Published by March 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsNASA launches its first weather satellite. It would send back the first TV images of earth from space and prove the utility of observation satellites.
Original post by Randy Alfred
Military Report: Secretly Recruit or Hire Bloggers
Published by March 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsU.S. Special Ops undergoes a clandestine effort to establish its own blogging arm.
Original post by Danger Room
Google brings offline access to Docs and Apps
Published by March 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsGoogle is rolling out a much-awaited feature for its hosted applications: the ability for people to use them even when they aren’t connected to the Internet.
Original post by wired science
I just listened to NPR’s report about Paulson’s proposal to overhaul the way financial institutions are regulated. The report opened with a question to financial experts: “Does the plan do anything to fix the current financial crisis?” The experts responded with a unanimous “No.”
That shouldn’t surprise anyone, and it didn’t surprise Krugman:
…if financial players like […]
In between watching 1080s galore at the U.S. Open a couple weeks backs, I had the chance to demo some of Burton’s gear due out for the 2009 season. Most noteworthy is their Infinite Channel System (ICS) and Extruded Slot Technology (EST)—an integrated board and binding system. Reducing the binding mount to two screws, thus […]
CPR Experts Advise Hands-on-Chest, No Mouth-to-Mouth
Published by March 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe American Heart Association says skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing for CPR. Just call 911 and press rapidly and deeply on the victim’s chest until help arrives.
Original post by Associated Press
Analysts: iPhone driving smartphone sales
Published by March 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe iPhone has had a profound effect on the smartphone market, panelists at the Smartphone Summit said on Monday.
Original post by wired science