Beautiful forkless bike design by Olli Erkkila, created as a graduation project for the Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland.
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17 Creative Hot Air Balloons
19 Nov 2009 | 4:07 pmCollection of cool modern hot air balloons and creative giant balloon designs from all over the world. Darth Vader Hot Air Balloon Cool Darth Vader shaped hot air balloon created by Belgian Star Wars fan Benoit Lambert. [link] Monsters Inc. Hot Air Balloon Creative hot air balloon inspired by a 2001 computer animated comedy film from Pixar. [link] Turtle Hot [...] -
Innovative Laser Crosswalk Concept
18 Nov 2009 | 4:07 pmVirtual Wall is an innovative device that makes it safer for pedestrians to cross the road by projecting laser images when the red traffic light is on. Designed by Hanyoung Lee, the goal is to heighten driver and pedestrian awareness and to encourage both to follow the crosswalk rules. [via] -
Rozetkus 3D Power Socket
17 Nov 2009 | 4:58 pmRozetkus 3D power socket, designed by Art Lebedev Studio, neatly hides inside the wall until you need to connect more devices. With a simple push of a button, this modern electrical outlet turns into a convenient 5-plug wall socket. -
10 Cool Beverage Drinking Gadgets
16 Nov 2009 | 3:06 pmCollection of useful drinking gadgets and creative inventions that promise to make our lives easier and more enjoyable. Bottle Top Bottle tops turn your can into a spill-proof bottle. Just snap onto the top and enjoy your favorite beverage without spills. [link] Roll ‘n Pour Rocking beverage server helps you pour beverages from bulky and heavy bottles without spills [...]
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The 7 Signs of a Leader - A Must Read
19 Nov 2009 | 11:49 pmWe all need leaders in our lives: mentors, people to look up to, people that simply get it. Leaders inspire us, help us accomplish our dreams, and teach by example. Leaders make us better people and give us an ideal to strive for.The measure of leadership is always influence; leaders have an amazing ability to influence our lives. Leaders lead wherever they go; they lead at work, at home, or wherever they happen to be.So after that intro, it's easy to conclude that being a leader is not an easy task; it requires a collection of very important skills that have to be ingrained into your daily… -
Seven Ways to Create More Time In Your Day
18 Nov 2009 | 1:05 amDo you ever feel like you have way too much time on your hands, and far too little work and life to fit into it? Unless you're a teen on summer break, I reckon it's unlikely! Most of us would love to have an extra couple of hours in each day. With two more hours, we could find time to exercise, to read some of the books that are gathering dust on our shelves, to spend time with the kids...But, unless you're lucky enough to find a magic genie who can stretch your days to twenty-six hours long, you're stuck with the same twenty-four hours per day as the rest of the world. So how can you create… -
The Bruce Lee Approach to Valuing of Money
16 Nov 2009 | 11:56 pmBruce Lee lived his life through action; he was a man who lived what he taught. Many people don't know that he wasn't just a great martial artist but he studied, amongst other things, philosophy at the University of Washington. He was deeply interested in life and and all that encompasses, including money.From the book, 'Striking Thoughts' Bruce Lee talks about money as a useful tool, nothing more. Here are some of the lessons:The Nature Of Money"Money of itself has no explicit nature. Money is what one makes of it"Many of us believe that money holds a certain power. This is wrong. Money… -
7 Healthy Foods That Will Fill You Up and Prevent Overeating
13 Nov 2009 | 3:47 amDavid A. Kessler, the author of “The End of Overeating”, explains very well how people become addicted to foods that are high in sugar, fat and salt. Like addiction does, this causes people to crave so they eat more and more foods that are loaded with unhealthy ingredients and many times, completely devoid of any nutrients.So, as the process goes, people are instructed to stop eating sugar, fat, and salt. However, many times, those instructions are not supplemented with healthy replacements and it's left to you to do the research, which is no simple task. As Michael Pollan says in “In… -
Frugal Fun: Five Ways to Be Social and Save
12 Nov 2009 | 5:21 amLiving in San Francisco, one of the most expensive places in the country, I have learned a lot about budgets. First lesson: I need a budget. Recently, I kept track of my monthly expenditures and was shocked by the number in my “entertainment” column; no wonder my paychecks disappear so quickly.There are obvious alternatives to nights on the town, like socializing at home. However, sometimes we’re obligated to go out—a friend’s birthday, for example, or the need to leave the house and indulge ourselves a little. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to cut corners and still have a…
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5 International Holiday Meals
20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 amWe often associate holidays with food. But which food depends on where you live. What do people eat in Japan, Germany and other countries during the holidays? -
How Facebook Works
20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 amAccording to the New Oxford American Dictionary, "unfriend" -- the act of removing someone as a friend on a social networking site like Facebook -- is the word of the year. What else has Facebook brought to people's lives? -
Travel the World: Famous Landmarks
20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 amWhat's a famous landmark? A destination that gets a lot of attention. Whether it's a natural world wonder or the site of a historic event, millions of people each year travel from all over the world to visit these interesting places. -
Today's Video - Destroyed in Seconds: Million Dollar Wreck
20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 amSlick conditions stop these supercars in their tracks. Watch this video from Discovery Channel's "Destroyed in Seconds." -
5 Tips for Planning a Move
20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 amWhatever the reason for your move, getting everything you own from one home to another can be difficult to orchestrate. So rather than just play it by ear, it's a good idea to make a solid plan well in advance of your move.
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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show PHOTOS: Boobs, Lace, And Balloons (POLL)
20 Nov 2009 | 5:40 amBy Samantha Critchell, AP: NEW YORK -- Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road. The lingerie retailer inducted five more women into its "Angel" ranks - a designation reserved for top models - in front of a packed house Thursday night at the Lexington Avenue Armory. They are Emanuela de Paula, Chanel Iman, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Lindsay Ellingson and Candice Swanepoel. But Klum, who gave birth to a daughter five weeks ago, was the audience favorite in her… -
Gang Killed People For Their Fat: Peruvian Police
19 Nov 2009 | 9:36 pmLIMA, Peru — A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist. Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police. He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth $60,000 a gallon ($15,000 a liter). Mejia said the suspects told police the… -
Megan Fox Wears Panties, Lifts Foot Above Head (PHOTOS)
19 Nov 2009 | 3:40 pmThese outtakes (via Megan-Fox.net) didn't make the Megan Fox profile in last weekend's NYT Magazine, maybe because they depict the manufactured Megan rather than the real one. "When I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that I play," she told the NYT Magazine. "She's not fully fleshed out -- she doesn't have her own name -- but she shows up to do men's-magazine interviews." Megan says girls call her slutty because she is beautiful and smart, but her crotchy posing might also have something to do with it. PHOTOS: Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter! -
White House Rebuke: Angry Dems Shut Down Vote
19 Nov 2009 | 2:27 pmA bloc of African American House Democrats, angry and worried that not enough is being done about high unemployment by the administration, forced the postponement of a much-anticipated vote Thursday on comprehensive financial regulation reform. The Financial Services Committee had finished hearing amendments around 3 p.m. and recessed, planning to return at 4 for a final vote on the package. But during the break, some of the Democrats on the committee buttonholed Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and told him they wouldn't vote for the bill because of the deepening problem of unemployment in… -
The Most Obese Counties In America: Is Yours On The List?
19 Nov 2009 | 9:50 amATLANTA — The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The same problem was seen in about 75 percent of counties in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina. The five counties with the highest rates were Greene and Dallas…
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Istanbul Opens World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
20 Nov 2009 | 11:16 amThe world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching across more than 2 million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the soil, but rather on more than 300 isolators, bearings that can move side-to-side during an earthquake. The whole building moves as a single unit, which prevents damage from uneven forces acting on the structure. “What an isolation system does is that it enables the building to move through large displacements in unison,… -
Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud
20 Nov 2009 | 11:14 amA biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research project. The results of that study were published Wednesday in PLOS One. “A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,” wrote the authors. “All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.” The team of researchers from… -
Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast Revealed
20 Nov 2009 | 10:08 amA new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spectrum, European Southern Observatory astronomers were able to glimpse the leftovers of the cosmic dinner. “There is a clear ring of stars and clusters hidden behind the dust lanes, and our images provide an unprecedentedly detailed view toward it,” said Jouni Kainulainen, in a paper on the… -
When Good Rockets Go Bad
19 Nov 2009 | 5:08 pm<< previous image | next image >> In the grand scheme of human space programs in Russia and the United States, catastrophic failures are relatively rare. But they are often quite spectacular and make a big impression on the public and on the funding for space exploration. The explosions in the videos we’ve assembled here were very costly, some in terms of life, some in terms of lost equipment and all in terms of progress of the space programs. Vanguard TV3 Fuel Tanks Explode Dec. 6, 1957: The United States’ first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit was also its first… -
Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment
19 Nov 2009 | 4:44 pmWASHINGTON — Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts of the globe and unwittingly spread it, scientists reported Nov. 19 at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The frontline drug in question is called artemisinin, the most potent medication currently in use against malaria. Signs of malarial resistance to artemisinin have surfaced over the past several…
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Droid Does: A Price Drop
20 Nov 2009 | 4:04 pmWhen it was released earlier this month, the retail price for the Motorola Droid was $200 for new activations on Verizon. Although Verizon is staying firm with that price point for now, it appears that some of its retailers are not. Specifically, Amazon and Dell have both cut prices on the smartphone to $150 and $120, respectively. The news comes just one day after news broke of price cuts by online retailers on other devices not named iPhone: the Palm Pre and Pixi. Of course, the device cost shouldn’t really play a huge role in consumer’s decision given the total costs of ownership for… -
Top 10 News Readers Judged by Mashable Readers
20 Nov 2009 | 3:47 pmEach Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader. Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure your vote counts next time, be sure to vote in this week’s Lunchtime Poll, where we want to know your favorite video-sharing service. A surprising number of readers in the top 10 were Mac apps, and enough of you said you’d switched to using Twitter as your… -
HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday Deals
20 Nov 2009 | 1:33 pmSusan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing. We’re a week away from Black Friday and just a few years ago, if you wanted to find the best deals, you had to wait for the sales flyers to hit your newspaper or mailbox. You’d make a list of what you wanted and get your game plan together. But that’s all changed because of social media. Tools like iPhone apps, blogs, Twitter, and Facebook… -
LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Video Sharing Service?
20 Nov 2009 | 12:58 pmIt’s Friday, people, which means that not only is it Follow Friday, it’s also time for the Lunchtime Poll! Last week we wanted to know about your favorite news reader (or whether you use RSS at all). We’ll have the results for you later today, but let’s get a head start on the new poll: what’s your favorite video sharing service? We’ll start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and let you fine folks have at it in the comments. Be sure to let us know along with your vote why you chose it as your favorite. We’ll post the results… -
Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters
20 Nov 2009 | 12:57 pmThanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s sponsors are as social media savvy as our readers! Advertise with us and get noticed. Help us to help you. Mashable is seeking out site sponsors for our large, diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalists, early adopters, developers, bloggers, and many more. You’ll receive hundreds of thousands of views a day in addition to weekly recognition to thank you as our premium sponsors. Are you interested? Contact us for more information…
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Mummy’s curse: hardened arteries
20 Nov 2009 | 1:01 pmThe mummy of Esankh (above), an Egyptian man who lived between 1070 B.C. and 712 B.C., undergoes CT scanning. Researchers have discovered signs of atherosclerosis in ancient mummies, suggesting that the condition causing heart attacks and strokes isn’t just a modern malady. (Credit: Michael Miyamoto /UC San Diego) UC IRVINE—Hardening of the arteries has been detected [...] -
Infrared scanners scope out early cancer
20 Nov 2009 | 8:34 amEngineer Huikai Xie displays a micro-endoscope developed in his laboratory at the University of Florida. Smaller than a pencil eraser, the device contains a scanner that can “see” beneath the surface of internal tissues. The goal is to reveal abnormal groups of cells before cancerous growths are big enough to be spotted by traditional camera-equipped [...] -
Viral case of the blame game
20 Nov 2009 | 7:45 amBlame spreads quickly because it triggers the perception that one’s self-image is under assault and must be protected. “When we see others protecting their egos, we become defensive too,” says Nathanael Fast, the study’s lead author. “We then try to protect our own self-image by blaming others for our mistakes, which may feel good in [...] -
Tool decodes biology’s key players
19 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pmBiologist Benjamin Garcia (left) and chemical engineer Christodoulos Floudas collaborated to develop a fast and sensitive way to analyze proteins called histones that play a key role in how genes function. The work ultimately may aid the development of technology for reprogramming cells to fight cancer or to regenerate damaged tissue. (Credit: Frank Wojciechowski) PRINCETON—A team [...] -
Police on night beat at risk for heart disease
19 Nov 2009 | 1:24 pmNight shifts, overtime, and shortened sleep can be a dangerous combination for police officers, according to research conducted by John Violanti. “These findings reinforce the scientific value of studying the effects of occupation on cardiovascular risk factors,” says Violanti. U. BUFFALO—Police officers who work the night shift are at an increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome, [...]
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An iPhone Visualization App That Syncs with the Cloud
20 Nov 2009 | 3:50 pmRoambi announced a pro version of its iPhone application this week that syncs with Salesforce.com and other cloud-based services or on-premsie sales environments. It's a visualization application, providing mobile workers with a pretty cool way to see sales information. Integration is by far one of the most significant trends we are seeing in the enterprise space. It's a wave, really, marked this week by Salesforce.com and its move to turn the Force.com development platform into a service that makes all of its applications social. Sponsor A good example of this trend are small companies like… -
Three Great Light Blogging Tools Compared
20 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pmOnce the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than Twitter and less formal than Wordpress or Typepad's original product. ReadWriteWeb compared TypePad's Micro against 2 other leading light blogging tools. Below are our thoughts: Sponsor TypePad Micro: In addition to being able to blog via email, iPhone app, "Blog It" bookmarklet and the general WYSIWYG dashboard, this tool also allows users to cross post to… -
8tracks to Launch Playback API and Developer Program
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmIt appears that the time for freemium music services in the US has passed. Earlier this week streaming music site Imeem sold to MySpace for under $10 million dollars while laying off a large number of staff. For a company with all four major record labels signed, more than 15 million uniques a month and well over 5 million tracks in its catalogue, it came as a sobering blow to the industry. While many companies move to a subscription model, 8tracks continues to forge along in what some describe as a convenient loophole. As of this weekend the company is publicly launching its API for Boston's… -
Memento: Protocol-Based Time Travel for the Web
20 Nov 2009 | 11:45 amThe Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting, but it also means that finding older versions of a website is hard. The current push towards the real-time web is making this problem even more apparent. Memento, a project based at Old Dominion University, wants to make it easier to access older versions of a web page without having to go to the Internet Archive. To do this, the project is using a relatively obscure feature of the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Sponsor The Memento project wants to give browsers a 'time-travel' mode. -
The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web
20 Nov 2009 | 11:14 amThe semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation. However, with the rise of the social Web, we see that what truly makes our online experiences meaningful is not necessarily the Web's ability to approximate human language or to return search results with syntactical exactness. The value of the semantic Web will take time because the…
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CERN Successfully Brings Large Hadron Collider Back Online
20 Nov 2009 | 1:54 pmMuch beset by magnet quenches, birds, bread, black holes, evil time travelers, and fools, the Large Hadron Collider successfully came online and orbited a proton beam today! Photographs of the triumphant moment are within. -
Yikes: Peruvian Jungle Gang Arrested for Selling Fat of Its Murder Victims
20 Nov 2009 | 1:50 pmIs there any medical use for black market human fat? Scientists are skeptical Plentiful fat seems more reviled than revered in today's society, even when it has uses for the medical and cosmetic industries. But today police announced the arrest of a Peruvian gang accused of murdering people and selling their fat to the cosmetics industry, according to The Associated Press. Three gang members have confessed to killing at least five people and draining their fat in a fairly grisly manner: by removing the head, arms, legs and organs, then suspending the bodies above candles to allow the fat to… -
This Week in the Future, November 16-20, 2009
20 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pmLeave a comment to win a TWITF T-shirt! UV phasers, battlefield-based cryogenic tech, computerized cat brains and space fish on Jupiter's moon? Believe it, baby. The future is yours, and we've rounded it up for you in high style once again with This Week in The Future This week brought some fascinating news of the future to PopSci.com. For starters, scientists stunned nematode worms with UV phasers straight out of Star Trek... and they're not ruling out future applications of the technology for super stun weapons. Not to be outdone, DARPA's working on bringingcryogenic technology to the… -
Steward Advanced Materials Thiol-SAMMS: The Toxin Terminator
20 Nov 2009 | 12:24 pmA white power that can absorb more than half its weight in mercury This simple-looking white powder can get mercury-contaminated water 100 times as clean as any other method, for about half the cost. Each grain is actually a carefully engineered molecular sponge designed to absorb more than half its weight in mercury. The product of more than 15 years of research, Thiol-SAMMS is made of silica molecules assembled into a spongelike pattern of holes, packing the surface area of a football field into just one teaspoon. Sulfur atoms, which can bind poisonous mercury, coat each of the minuscule… -
Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers' Heads by 2020
20 Nov 2009 | 11:00 amResearchers expect brain waves to operate computers, TVs and cell phones If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don't tell Intel researchers. Intel's Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020. The scientists anticipate that consumers will adapt quickly to the idea, and indeed crave the freedom of not requiring a keyboard, mouse, or remote control for surfing the Web or changing channels. They also predict that people will tire of multi-touch devices such as our precious iPhones, Android smart…
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Restart for 'Big Bang' experiment
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Italian sex scandal woman 'dead'
A transsexual prostitute linked to a sex row involving an Italian politician is believed to have been burned to death, media report. -
Drug-resistant swine flu hits UK
Health officials in Cardiff say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients. -
UK navy fires on 'Spanish flag'
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Match-fix probe targets 200 games
About 200 football ties are under investigation in what one Uefa official calls Europe's biggest match-fixing scandal.
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Obama Raised Issue of American Held in China
20 Nov 2009 | 3:57 pmThe Chinese government has held an American oil geologist on suspicion of stealing state secrets for nearly two years, prompting President Obama to raise the issue during his visit to Beijing. -
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics
20 Nov 2009 | 3:55 pmThe e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university will undoubtedly raise questions about the actions of some scientists. -
Hershey Considers a Counterbid for Cadbury
20 Nov 2009 | 3:48 pmHershey is considering bidding for Cadbury, a proposal that would top the $16.7 billion hostile bid from Kraft, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Friday. -
Students Continue to Protest California Tuition Increases
20 Nov 2009 | 3:40 pmStudents occupied campus buildings at Berkeley and Santa Cruz on Friday, the day after a 32-percent increase in tuition was approved by the University of California Board of Regents. -
Arrests in Europe Over Soccer Fixing Investigation
20 Nov 2009 | 2:45 pmGerman law enforcement officials arrested 17 on Friday in connection with what was described as the biggest match-fixing scandal yet uncovered in European soccer.
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Tom Petty: Rock God or Mere Mortal?
20 Nov 2009 | 3:13 pmAs Tom Petty prepares to release a career-spanning anthology, an attempt to determine where he falls in the rock music pantheon. -
Morgan Releases Crescent
20 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pmMorgan Stanley closed the chapter on its disastrous $6.5 billion acquisition of Crescent Real Estate Equities by handing the keys to lender Barclays. -
Playing Football the Harbaugh Way
20 Nov 2009 | 10:04 amIf you tried to build the perfect football coach, chances are the final product would look a lot like Stanford's Jim Harbaugh, a former star college quarterback and NFL Pro-Bowler with coaching in his blood. So far, the formula is working. -
Goldman Holders Miffed at Bonuses
20 Nov 2009 | 10:03 amSome of Goldman Sachs's largest shareholders have urged the firm to reduce its bonus pool, arguing the company should pass along more of its blockbuster earnings to investors. -
House Attacks Fed, Treasury
20 Nov 2009 | 9:07 amPolitical frustration over Wall Street's rescue and high unemployment erupted in Congress, with one panel threatening tighter scrutiny on the Fed and another excoriating Geithner.
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RealTime CrunchUp: The Rise Of Geo Streams
20 Nov 2009 | 4:36 pmToday at the RealTime CrunchUp, representatives from some of the top companies involved in location based services came together to talk about the current state and future of geo-based services. I’ll be taking some notes about the top themes to come up during the panel, and we’ll have a full transcript available a few minutes after the panel concludes. Participating in the panel were: Matt Galligan, co-Founder of SimpleGeo Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform at Twitter Tristan Walker, VP of Business Development at Foursquare Steve Lee, Group Product Manager Google Maps for Mobile… -
Rippol’s Video Discovery Engine Launches To The Public
20 Nov 2009 | 3:22 pmRippol, the video discovery site that combines both complex algorithms with user suggestions to surface interesting content, has launched to the public at today’s RealTime CrunchUp. We recently took an in-depth look at the service, but for those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s a recap: Rippol looks at your video watching activity on the site, as well as that of your friends and people in your demographic. It then looks at meta data from video content ingested from sites like YouTube and Hulu, and uses machine learning to identify videos it thinks you’ll like. From… -
RealTime CrunchUp: Media Streams As The Ultimate Marketing Vehicle
20 Nov 2009 | 3:13 pmAt our Real-Time CrunchUp today in San Francisco, we are hosting a panel titles “Media Streams: Are These The Utlimate Marketing Vehicle?” Panelists include Sean Rad, CEO of Ad.ly; Ryan Amos, co-founder of DailyBooth; Jesse Engle, CEO of CoTweet; Robin Bechtel, a celebrity agent and Philip Nelson, SVP of strategic development for NewTek. Below find my live notes (paraphrased): ES: What are celebrities doing to leverage the social streams? RB: I oversee Britney Spears’ digital properties and we are using Twitter to build up buzz around her concerts. Using Twitter, we were… -
VideoLobby Wants To Help You Create Your Own Custom-Branded Live Webcasts
20 Nov 2009 | 3:03 pmToday at the RealTime CrunchUp we saw the launch of VideoLobby, a new service founded by Peter Urban that’s looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding. The service is an extension of Urban’s “sales software for real people” service Smibs. Urban says that while some other services offer embeds, you’re generally responsible for building your own branded site to insert those in. That’s where VideoLobby comes in: the site helps you build your own custom video portal, and then allows you to include streams… -
FlixUp Is Rotten Tomatoes For Twitter Movie Talk
20 Nov 2009 | 2:56 pmRotten Tomatoes is a great site because it takes all the movie reviews from around the web and condenses them into an easy-to-understand aggregate score. But let’s be honest: Most movie reviewers suck. Why not instead rely on people in your social circle to recommend movies to you? That’s the idea behind FlixUp. This new iPhone app unveiled at our Realtime CrunchUp event in San Francisco today essentially scans Twitter for what people are saying about a movie and shows you a rating based on that. It can return a general score from across Twitter, or the tweets about the movie from…
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4 Minute Roundup: Media Company Layoffs; Omidyar Startup
20 Nov 2009 | 3:49 pmHere's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the deep layoffs that are planned at AOL, the AP and BusinessWeek. In the case of AOL, the company plans to shed one-third of its workforce, or 2,500 staffers. eBay founder Pierre Omidyar announced plans to launch a news startup in Hawaii that will combine citizen journalism with professional reporting to cover local civic issues. I asked Just One Question to Bayosphere founder Dan Gillmor about Omidyar's venture. Check it out: 4mrbareaudio112009.mp3 Background music is "What the World Needs" by the The… -
5Across: Social Media Marketing 101
19 Nov 2009 | 2:41 pmThere's a new series of demands being made in company meetings everywhere: "What is our social media strategy? What are we doing on Facebook and Twitter? I want followers and fans, and I want them now!" But before companies large and small -- as well as non-profits and charities -- jump into social media, they need to take a deep breath and think about it. What are their goals? What kind of return on investment will they get? Even though it's free to set up fan pages and feeds, there's a time investment that may or may not pay off. On this episode of 5Across, I convened a group of social… -
Profiles in Courage: Social Media Editors at Big Media Outlets
19 Nov 2009 | 10:00 amDuring a recent trip to see an editor I work with at The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper in Canada, I passed by the newspaper's cafeteria. My editor looked in and pointed at a man who was sitting with his back to us. "There's Mathew Ingram, doing his office hours," he told me. Ingram is the Globe and Mail's communities editor, a job he took on after being a technology reporter, columnist and blogger for the paper. My editor explained that Ingram's "office hours" consist of him making himself available in the cafeteria so that anyone can come see him and talk about Twitter, user comments,… -
The Shutdown of UWIRE and the Implications for College Media
18 Nov 2009 | 12:04 pmLast month, UWIRE.com, an edited college media newswire, mysteriously vanished from the Internet. "UWIRE, a popular service that aggregated articles from student newspapers across the country, promoting student journalism both within higher education and to the outside world, has disappeared," wrote Simmi Aujla for the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. Today, visitors to the site receive an error message, and the people running the service have had little to say publicly. As a result, there has been intense speculation about the site, along with complaints from student editors… -
Young Political Candidates Confronted by Digital Past on Facebook
17 Nov 2009 | 12:42 pmLast spring Emanuel Pleitez, 26, ran for California's 32nd Congressional seat in a special election to replace Hilda Solis, the new secretary of labor. During the campaign, one of Pleitez's opponents, California State Sen. Gil Cedillo, discovered photos from Pleitez's Facebook profile that showed Pleitez hanging around with various women at parties. The Cedillo campaign used the photos as the basis for a mailer that was sent to homes in the district. The mailer presented Pleitez as a partier, drinker and womanizer, among other smears. Pleitez admits the negative attack probably cost him some…
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The other D-word
20 Nov 2009 | 3:12 amIs Japan back in a deflationary trap?WHILE investors have been fretting recently about Japan’s huge debt, another of the dreaded D-words has come back to haunt them. On Friday November 20th, Japan’s Cabinet Office issued a monthly report that for the first time since 2006 acknowledged that the country was suffering from deflation.Consumer prices have actually been falling for months, but the pace of decline accelerated over the summer. In September prices slumped by 2.2% compared with a year earlier. This is partly because the country is still loaded with excess capacity after the… -
Hey, big spender
20 Nov 2009 | 2:22 amWhich firms spend most on R&D? BIG carmakers and drug and technology firms devote the most cash to research and development, according to the European Commission’s latest tally. These types of business rely on developing new products or constantly updating old ones to compete for customers. Toyota was the world's leading R&D spender in 2008. The Japanese carmaker increased its annual R&D budget by 7.6% to €7.6 billion ($10.6 billion), knocking Microsoft off the top spot. Worldwide R&D spending increased by 6.9% in 2008, having also grown by 9% in 2007. -
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19 Nov 2009 | 11:48 pmThe latest plastic pitches are a goal-scorer’s delightIT’S official: the grass is greener in Europe. International football’s governing body, FIFA, has ruled that the soccer pitches in South Africa where the World Cup will be played next summer are not fit enough for the month-long competition. Pitches planted with locally grown kikuyu grass will have to be dug up and replanted with lush European rye grass. No matter that the European turf, bred for a damper and cooler climate, will require more water, fertiliser and maintenance. FIFA is adamant: the hardy local stuff is not… -
Name a famous Belgian
19 Nov 2009 | 10:17 amTwo minor but competent figures will be president and high representative of the EUA MAN who has been Belgian prime minister for less than a year and a British technocrat who has never held elected office were chosen by European Union leaders on Thursday November 19th to represent their 27 countries around the world, and lead their policymaking at the highest level. It seems odd to appoint people as little-known as Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton to such big jobs. For nearly a decade, EU politicians have been wrangling about a new rule book, calling for Europe to equip itself with… -
Settling for less
19 Nov 2009 | 2:57 amThe latest row over Israeli settlements in Palestinian territoryBINYAMIN NETANYAHU, Israel’s prime minister, came under pressure this week when news leaked of a new plan to build 900 homes in the occupied Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. His aides say that he knew nothing about the scheme before a local planning committee considered it.True or not, the latest settlement expansion is exasperating for those who have been involved, for several months, in negotiations between the United States and Israel. Mr Netanyahu’s colleagues are bristling that previous efforts to prevent new building…
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Marines Reflect On Duty, Death In Afghanistan
20 Nov 2009 | 1:16 pmWhen the Marines of "America's Battalion" first arrived in Afghanistan, they were eager to get into the fight against the Taliban. Now, as they wrap up their seven-month deployment — and after the loss of a dozen comrades — they see warfare in a different light.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Insurance Mandate Could Spur Walk-In Clinic Boom
20 Nov 2009 | 1:09 pmAs it gets more difficult to see a primary care doctor, walk-in medical centers are picking up the slack. And if Congress succeeds in passing a nationwide health insurance mandate, the urgent care industry expects even more growth.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Evidence-Based Medicine: Hard For Some To Swallow
20 Nov 2009 | 1:07 pmThis week two panels of medical experts recommended fewer screening tests for breast and cervical cancer. The idea of evidence-based medicine is that the decisions made between doctors and patients should be based on studies that sometimes conflict with previous wisdom on treatment options.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Week In Politics Examined
20 Nov 2009 | 1:03 pmSenate Democrats hoped to have enough votes this week to pass a health care bill, Obama Cabinet officials faced hostile lawmakers on Capitol Hill and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's much-awaited book hit bookstores. Political analysts E.J. Dionne, of The Washington Post, and David Brooks, of The New York Times, offer their insight.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Lawsuit Adds To Tumult At 'Washington Times'
20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pmThe Washington Times has long thought to be immune from the economic forces challenging the rest of newspaper industry because of the deep pockets of its founder and owner, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church. But the recession has taken a toll on the paper and now an apparent power struggle among Moon's sons is adding to the paper's challenges. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
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Feds To Drop Charges Against Blackwater Guard
20 Nov 2009 | 2:57 pmThe Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Leader Of Sears Tower Plot Sentenced To 13 Years
20 Nov 2009 | 2:21 pmNarseal Batiste, who faced a maximum of 70 years in prison, was convicted in May of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida, plotting to blow up buildings and conspiracy to wage war against the U.S. Officials acknowledged the plot never got past the discussion stage and the group never acquired the means to carry it out.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Museum: Galileo's Fingers, Tooth Found
20 Nov 2009 | 2:06 pmTwo fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Marines Reflect On Duty, Death In Afghanistan
20 Nov 2009 | 1:16 pmWhen the Marines of "America's Battalion" first arrived in Afghanistan, they were eager to get into the fight against the Taliban. Now, as they wrap up their seven-month deployment — and after the loss of a dozen comrades — they see warfare in a different light.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Evidence-Based Medicine: Hard For Some To Swallow
20 Nov 2009 | 1:07 pmThis week two panels of medical experts recommended fewer screening tests for breast and cervical cancer. The idea of evidence-based medicine is that the decisions made between doctors and patients should be based on studies that sometimes conflict with previous wisdom on treatment options.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
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Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat'
20 Nov 2009 | 10:48 amPeruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatmentA Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend.Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian times, police said.Peru reacted with revulsion and horror to reports that scores of peasants may have been butchered by the gang, which was said to have operated in… -
Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists
20 Nov 2009 | 10:15 amHundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked onlineHundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today.The computer files were apparently accessed earlier this week from servers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned centre focused on the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails… -
Cumbria flood policeman's body found
20 Nov 2009 | 10:07 am• Missing police officer named as Bill Barker• Hundreds evacuated as riverbanks burstA policeman swept away during devastating flooding was trying to save lives by directing motorists off a bridge across a swollen river.PC Bill Barker, who would have been 45 tomorrow, was praised by the prime minister, Gordon Brown, as a "very heroic, very brave man".His body, still in uniform, was found on a beach today. The father of four went missing after a bridge in Workington collapsed amid what the local MP described as the kind of flooding seen only "once every 1,000 years".Barker went missing… -
Fifa rejects Irish calls for World Cup rematch after Thierry Henry handball
19 Nov 2009 | 5:27 am• World body rules out replay after Thierry Henry handball furore• 'We should put the powers that be on the spot,' says AhernFifa has ruled out any prospect of France and the Republic of Ireland replaying their World Cup play-off match, despite the Irish justice minister, Dermot Ahern, this morning joining the Republic of Ireland assistant manager, Liam Brady, in calling for a rematch.When contacted by the Guardian, a Fifa spokesman flatly denied the chance of a rematch, refering to Law 5 in the official rules of the game, which states that the referee has "full authority to enforce… -
Cheat or paragon: how Thierry Henry could have handled it all so differently | Richard Williams
19 Nov 2009 | 4:32 amFrance captain Thierry Henry had the perfect opportunity to produce an act of genuine sportsmanship. He missed itThierry Henry had about five seconds in which to decide to join the immortals. While William Gallas wheeled away from the point-blank header which gave France the lead over the Republic of Ireland during extra time in their World Cup play-off last night, Henry's reaction could have gone one of two ways.In the act of controlling the ball before providing Gallas with a perfect cross, France's captain had handled it. Not once, but twice. The first time might have been almost…
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Fight to protect California condors from lead ammunition moves to Arizona
20 Nov 2009 | 1:57 pmIt has been 22 years since the last 22 California condors ( Gymnogyps californianus ) were collected from the wild and placed in captive breeding programs. The species, which nearly went extinct due to habitat loss, poaching, DDT and lead poisoning, has since rebounded to 332 birds, according to counts maintained by the Zoological Society of San Diego . But despite that conservation success, condors still face a major threat from lead poisoning, which often occurs when the birds eat carcasses killed by hunters' lead ammunition. [More] -
Circulation of LHC Beams Could Resume in Earnest over the Weekend
20 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pmThe Large Hadron Collider , the world's most powerful particle accelerator, is drawing near to its long-awaited reboot. More than a year after the European collider's initial start-up was quashed by a helium leak caused by a faulty electrical connection , particle beams have been injected into the collider, known as the LHC, and may be guided fully through its rings in the coming hours. [More] -
Measuring Up: New NIST Director, Plus Big Budget Put Measurement Science in Public Eye
20 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pmEarlier this month, the U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed Patrick Gallagher as the 14th director of its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) . Although the title may be new to Gallagher, NIST's mission of developing measurement science, standards and technology isn't. The 46-year-old physicist began his career in the organization's NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) in 1993 to pursue studies in neutron and x-ray instrumentation; in 2004 he became NCNR's director. [More] -
How Long Can a Nuclear Reactor Last?
20 Nov 2009 | 12:27 pmCould nuclear power plants last as long as the Hoover Dam?Increasingly dependable and emitting few greenhouse gases, the U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants will likely run for another 50 or even 70 years before it is retired -- long past the 40-year life span planned decades ago -- according to industry executives, regulators and scientists. [More] -
What to Do About Endocrine Disruptors? A Q&A with Linda Birnbaum
20 Nov 2009 | 11:37 amNearly a year ago, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum was named director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program. She sat down with Environmental Health News journalist Jane Kay in San Francisco on Wednesday to answer questions about the environmental health risks we face today. [More]
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Europe's Best And Worst Unemployment Rates
16 Nov 2009 | 12:00 amIf you're looking for work on the Continent, head north and avoid Spain.
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New Advice on Women's Cancer Tests
20 Nov 2009 | 3:15 pmNew Advice on Women's Cancer Tests 1st mammograms. Now, in an apparent coincidence Pap smears. Guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20's can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually. (Nov. 20) From: AssociatedPress Views: 293 9 ratings Time: 02:02 More in News & Politics -
Be Safe When Using a Turkey Fryer
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20 Nov 2009 | 3:01 pmAP Top Stories Here's the latest news for Friday November 20: Oprah ending her show in 2011; New guidelines say women in their 20s can have fewer pap smears; Alleged Ft. Hood shooter has court date Saturday and Macy's unveils new parade balloons. From: AssociatedPress Views: 128 4 ratings Time: 00:54 More in News & Politics -
Emotional Oprah Announces the End of Her Show
20 Nov 2009 | 2:45 pmEmotional Oprah Announces the End of Her Show Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision. (Nov. 20) From: AssociatedPress Views: 303 12 ratings Time: 01:37 More in News & Politics -
Oprah: '25 Years Feels Right'
20 Nov 2009 | 2:30 pmOprah: '25 Years Feels Right' Oprah Winfrey tells her studio audience Friday that she'll stop hosting her powerhouse daytime talk show in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air. (Nov. 20) From: AssociatedPress Views: 305 18 ratings Time: 01:43 More in Entertainment
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Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe
20 Nov 2009 | 8:31 amTom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe www.ted.com Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have ... From: TEDtalksDirector Views: 313 88 ratings Time:… -
Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs west -- the myths that mystify
19 Nov 2009 | 8:05 amDevdutt Pattanaik: East vs west -- the myths that mystify www.ted.com Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West -- and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on ... From: TEDtalksDirector Views: 7783… -
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
18 Nov 2009 | 7:27 amPranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology www.ted.com At tedindia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his sixthsense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind sixthsense, to open its possibilities to all.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives ... From:… -
Cynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of "Idol" TV
13 Nov 2009 | 8:32 amCynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of "Idol" TV www.ted.com Cynthia Schneider looks at two international "American Idol"-style shows -- one in Afghanistan, and one in the United Arab Emirates -- and shows the surprising effect that these reality-TV competitions are creating in their societies.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe ... From:… -
Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil
13 Nov 2009 | 8:14 amEdward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil www.ted.com In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor ... From: TEDtalksDirector Views: 9099 204 ratings…
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Stanford Expert Considers Robots and the Law
20 Nov 2009 | 11:40 amStanford Expert Considers Robots and the Law M. Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, is looking at the possible legal ramifications robots and robotics manufacturers might face. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford News: news.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on youtube: www.youtube.com From: StanfordUniversity Views: 97 5 ratings Time: 01:34 More in Education -
New Times: The Future of Journalism
18 Nov 2009 | 4:48 pmNew Times: The Future of Journalism (October 22, 2009) The traditional print newspaper is struggling to stay profitable in the face of competition from electronic sources of information. What does this mean to the future of journalism? Philip Balboni of the globalpost; Alberto Ibarguen of the Knight Foundation; Paul Steiger of propublica; Arthur Sulzberger of the New York Times and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times Digital Operations discuss these questions in a conversation moderated by Joel Brinkley of Stanford. The ... From: StanfordUniversity Views: 429 4 ratings Time: 01:46:50 More… -
Life-Changing Technologies
16 Nov 2009 | 6:30 pmLife-Changing Technologies (October 23, 2009) Stanford University President John L. Hennessy kicks off reunion weekend with a "state of the university" address as he welcomes alumni and guests. Following his remarks, top faculty share insight into life-changing technologies being developed at Stanford. From reducing greenhouse gas emissions to improving the aging process, from designing smarter and safer automobiles to creating enhanced learning environments, Stanford researchers are building technologies that will ... From: StanfordUniversity Views: 996 16 ratings Time: 01:29:48… -
The Role of Fiction in the Well-Lived Life
16 Nov 2009 | 4:32 pmThe Role of Fiction in the Well-Lived Life Professor Joshua Landy, co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford, talks about his current research on the role that fiction plays in the well-lived life. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University www.humanexperience.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on youtube www.youtube.com From: StanfordUniversity Views: 670 23 ratings Time: 09:11 More in Education -
A New Translation of the Diamond Sutra
16 Nov 2009 | 4:27 pmA New Translation of the Diamond Sutra Religious Studies Professor Paul Harrison talks about his current research, which includes working on a new translation of one of the oldest and most important Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra. He specializes in Buddhist literature and history. He is also the co-director of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University www.humanexperience.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on ... From: StanfordUniversity Views: 284 4 ratings Time: 09:52 More…
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Special Preview: Bill Moyers on LBJ's Path to War | PBS
20 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pmBILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Special Preview: Bill Moyers on LBJ's Path to War | PBS www.pbs.org SPECIAL PREVIEW: In advance of this weeks broadcast, Bill Moyers closing remarks on Lyndon B. Johnson's path to war in Vietnam. This week on the Journal: As President Obama prepares to announce how many more troops he will send to Afghanistan, and Hamid Karzai is sworn in to another term as the head of that country's corrupt and dysfunctional government, on this week's edition of Bill Moyers Journal, Bill Moyers remembers the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson and the agonizing ... From: PBS… -
THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE | PTSD | Treatment | PBS
20 Nov 2009 | 5:50 amTHIS EMOTIONAL LIFE | PTSD | Treatment | PBS www.pbs.org PTSD, or posttraumatic stress disorder, can affect anyone who has experienced terrible trauma. From THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE (PBS, Jan. 4-6, 2010), Dr. Barbara Rothbaum talks about symptoms, treatment, and hope for recovery from PTSD. Dr. Rothbaum is the Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at the Emory University School of Medicine. www.pbs.org From: PBS Views: 273 6 ratings Time: 02:27 More in People & Blogs -
THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE | Resilience | PBS
20 Nov 2009 | 5:49 amTHIS EMOTIONAL LIFE | Resilience | PBS www.pbs.org Resilience and emotional well-being are often tested the most during times of an unexpected change in life circumstance or bad news but can also lead to contemplating one's life in a new way. Michele talks about resilience and re-thinking happiness while dealing with ovarian cancer, from THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE (Jan. 4-6, 2010). www.pbs.org From: PBS Views: 318 5 ratings Time: 04:10 More in People & Blogs -
PBS MediaShift | 5Across November, 2009 | Social Media Marketing | PBS
20 Nov 2009 | 12:44 amPBS MediaShift | 5Across November, 2009 | Social Media Marketing | PBS www.pbs.org Everyone talks about social media marketing, and how businesses must be on Twitter and Facebook to succeed. This roundtable of experts gives advice on what works -- and doesn't -- for small businesses, non-profits and big companies in the social media space. From: PBS Views: 334 3 ratings Time: 22:04 More in People & Blogs -
TAVIS SMILEY | Guest: Andre Agassi | PBS
19 Nov 2009 | 10:18 amTAVIS SMILEY | Guest: Andre Agassi | PBS Tennis great explains how his lack of formal education as a child left him with limited choices. More conversations: www.pbs.org From: PBS Views: 985 8 ratings Time: 01:25 More in Sports
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TUAW's Steve Sande provides gift ideas on the latest MacJury podcast
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmFiled under: Odds and ends, Podcasts, HolidaysHere it is, T-7 days until Black Friday, and you don't have any gift ideas? I joined MacJury podcaster Chuck Joiner earlier this week to provide my ideas for gifting. This was part two of a holiday gift ideas episode on the popular podcast. Joining me on the podcast were MacMouseCalls support genius (and grandmother) Pat Fauquet, Julio Ojeda-Zapata from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and The Mac Observer's Jeff Gamet. Storage seemed to be a popular gift idea from the panelists, along with iPhone / Mac jewelry, video tools, and even some freebies. I… -
MacUpdate Desktop version 5.0.2 released, win a membership from TUAW
20 Nov 2009 | 11:15 amFiled under: Software, Cool toolsMacUpdate announced today the release of version 5.0.2 of the MacUpdate Desktop utility, which allows users to manage application and widget software updates on their Mac OS X machines. The new version of the application adds some features and bug fixes as well as support for more languages. MacUpdate Desktop can track software updates for 30,000 Mac applications, and it also provides update support for applications on the iPhone, although iTunes handles that pretty well. Updates can be triggered manually and individually, or set to install automatically when… -
Geotagged tweets now alive in Stone Design's Twittelator Pro 3.3.1
20 Nov 2009 | 10:30 amFiled under: iPhone, App Store Twitter has flipped the switch on some new features, including geotagging of tweets and automatic retweeting. As a happy user of Stone Design's Twittelator Pro 3.3.1 [iTunes link], I was even more giddy when I found out that my favorite Twitter app already supports both of these features. The geotagging feature lets you optionally attach a latitude and longitude to your tweets. If you receive the tweet in Twittelator, you can tap on the sender's avatar icon to see the geotag and pull up a Google map of the location near where the tweet was sent. The app lets you… -
Navigon briefly cutting price on its popular Nav app
20 Nov 2009 | 9:30 amFiled under: Odds and ends, iPhoneGee, we were just saying how competitive it is getting in the iPhone nav department, and Navigon has gone and cut prices for holiday travelers. For 10 days only, beginning today (November 20-30) Navigon's iPhone app, Mobile Navigator [iTunes link]will be on sale for U.S. $69.99 instead of $89.99 providing a $20.00 savings. In addition, Navigon's Traffic Live feature is also on sale for $14.99 instead of $24.99. Traffic Live is a one time charge, not a continuing cost. That's a significant saving for this very popular app, and puts it under similar featured… -
CrossOver Games releases version 8.1.0
20 Nov 2009 | 8:30 amFiled under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, Developer, Snow Leopard The folks behind CrossOver Games sent us a note that version 8.1.0 of their software has come out, and it's got some nice upgrades for Mac and Linux folks who prefer to run their games in Windows almost-emulators (it's based on Wine, and as we all know, Wine Is Not an Emulator) rather than Boot Camping over to the real thing. We tried out CrossOver Games a while back, and found it lacking in almost everything but Steam games, but actually that's OK, because lately Steam has a lot of games going on. Accordingly, this new…
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More Quad-Core iMac Benchmarks Show Substantial Performance Gains
20 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pmFollowing up on early benchmarking tests that showed Apple's new quad-core Core i5 and Core i7 iMacs boasting significant performance improvements compared to their Core 2 Duo-based counterparts, Macworld has utilized its own Speedmark suite of real-... -
Game Developers Scaling Back Android Efforts as iPhone Continues to Dominate
20 Nov 2009 | 11:49 amReuters reports that prominent iPhone game developer Gameloft is scaling back its efforts to produce content for the Android platform in the face of weaknesses of its application store. Gameloft also notes that it is not the only one making the move... -
Workaround Restores Mac OS X 10.6.2 Compatibility With Intel Atom Processors
20 Nov 2009 | 6:19 amInsanelyMac reports that a member of its forums has created a workaround allowing users who have modified their Intel Atom-based netbooks into "Hackintoshes" in order to run Mac OS X to upgrade to OS X 10.6.2. The 10.6.2 update had specifically disa... -
Google Previews Chrome OS, Scheduled for Release in Late 2010
19 Nov 2009 | 11:49 amGoogle today held a preview event for Chrome OS, the company's forthcoming browser-based operating system scheduled to launch initially on netbooks in late 2010. Among the major announcements was that, like Google's Chrome browser, Chrome OS... -
Apple Researching Methods for 'Pushing' User Interfaces to Accessories from Media Devices
19 Nov 2009 | 8:16 amIn a patent application filed in May 2008 and published today, Apple discloses that it has been researching methods to allow media devices such as the iPod to "push" their graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to accessory devices for the ...
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Multi-carrier iPhone in France doubles sales
20 Nov 2009 | 3:30 pmThe elimination of the iPhone's exclusivity to Orange in France has resulted in "more than double" the sales of the device and dealt a blow to the BlackBerry, according to research notes issued recently. Estimates from Bernstein, Strategy Analytics and others report twice as many iPhones being shipped in the summer quarter as in the spring due specifically to Apple's handset being readily available at Bouygues Telecom as well as SFR. That added exposure is thought to have directly impacted RIM as customers at the new carriers had a new, major alternative to the Blac... -
FileSalvage 7 runs on Snow Leopard, upgrades interface
20 Nov 2009 | 2:55 pmSubRosaSoft has upgraded its file recovery software, FileSalvage 7. The software recovers deleted files, as well as files lost in an accidental reformat or initialization. It works on multiple file systems, recovering files from Mac OS hard disks, iPods, flash cards, Linux and Windows disks or Boot Camp partitions. The software is also claimed to work with scratched CDs. The interface provides previews of recoverable files, with options to reconstruct file names of many formats such as JPG, MP3 and M4A.... -
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Minco 1.0 time-earnings tracker integrates with iCal
20 Nov 2009 | 2:45 pmCelmaro has released a new time-tracking application, Minco 1.0. It is designed as a minimalist tracker for time, tasks or earnings, and can fully integrate with iCal. The software runs in the system menu and offers visual representations of time spent on tasks, with options to produce time logs in multiple formats. The earnings capabilities include projecting or displaying the results of a task, day, week, month or year. The new software also has built in tagging options.... -
Microsoft roadmap puts Windows 8 in 2012
20 Nov 2009 | 2:40 pmMicrosoft should once again release its next mainstream version of Windows about three years after the last, a roadmap obtained this week reveals. The schedule has the major revision, tentatively titled "Windows 8," launching in 2012 or about three years after Windows 7. It will purportedly keep in step with a rhythm developed by Microsoft that has Microsoft launching major releases four years apart, as Windows Server 2008 is considered a major release where its R2 upgrade and even Windows 7 are both treated as "release updates."...
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20 Nov 2009 | 4:27 pmThe new movie 'Precious' has gained attention for its powerful performances. Jason Carroll talks with its breakout star. -
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20 Nov 2009 | 3:22 pmProtesters clash with police at the University of California's main Berkeley campus over approval of a 32% tuition hike.
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Top 10 Deadliest Female Killers
20 Nov 2009 | 5:00 amThroughout history, some women have committed horrific crimes, ones that shock society to its very core. From the murders of their own innocent children, to chillingly cold-blooded serial crimes, these women have truly given in to the very worst aspects of themselves – and of human nature. Here is our list of top ten deadliest [...] -
Top 10 Bad Corporate Decisions
17 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pmEveryone makes bad decisions in life. Fortunately for most of us, the bad decisions we make aren’t broadcast to the world. When you’re a major corporation and you trip and fall flat on your face for all the world to see? Heck, even that isn’t as bad as all the money you may lose your shareholders. Some [...] -
Top 10 Hippie Travel Destinations
15 Nov 2009 | 8:02 pmThe sixties may be long gone but the hippies haven’t. With alternative lifestyles which embraced peace, love and a whole lot of tripping out, the hippies had a profound influence on culture as we see it today. They still congregate in few corners of the world, practicing the ideals which they believe in and reliving [...] -
10 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Orgasm
12 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pmOrgasms are somewhat of an untold mystery. Nowhere is this fact driven home more, than when you start looking up its definition and realize that there are nearly 30 different ways to describe its physical and emotional properties. You probably already know orgasms result in muscular contractions, increase heart rate/blood pressure, are associated with intense [...] -
Top 10 John Cusack Movie Roles
11 Nov 2009 | 2:31 amWith a career that spans over 25 years, John Cusack has had the chance to touch a lot of hearts – and he has succeeded in doing so. Plus, how can you help but love an actor who collaborates with family so often, and who plays such a wide range of characters. Though a “Top [...]
