http://www.cracked.com/article_20411_6-harmless-fads-that-caused-widespread-destruction.html/
It turns out some fads have poisoned thousands, started wars, and enslaved entire nations, all for the sake of some dumbass thing people wanted to ride, wear, or eat.
The average carbon dioxide reading surpassed 400 parts per million at the research facility atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii [...] The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html
Via my good friend and fellow traveller Jaap van Till… every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code. Software is now in nearly everything around us, and many are needed to define and create it.
Even if you don’t (want to) create code yourself, a better understanding will help you get to what you want and need to do.
The Coalition’s broadband policy slogan states that they will “Complete the current NBN cheaper and faster.” This simply isn’t true.
See http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/02/21/3695094.htm for the full story.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/23053.html
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/26/solar-sinter-solar-powered-3d-printer-turns-sand-into-glass-ren/
Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter turns Saharan sand into a perfectly suitable glass bowl. There’s a neat video showing the process in action.
“Researchers in the US and Great Britain have made a significant breakthrough in deciphering dolphin language in which a series of eight objects have been sonically identified”Many people think in visual-spatial terms rather than audio-sequential. I know people who think in terms of music, and others who think in colours. I think in 3D images, and find our human languages (I know a few) woefully inadequate for accurately expressing my thoughts – it’s too slow (low information density) and I’m too slow at drawing (plus 3D drawing has its problems on 2D surfaces). Anyway, the point is that the article’s assertion that the dolphin way of thinking is fundamentally different to that of humans is simply incorrect. Humans are not all the same. I envy the dolphins for having worked out a way to communicate that’s fast and descriptive, suitable for their 3D environment. Awesome!