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Month: February 2008
Popular Delicious useless
hah. so true, but tagging popular stuff is almost useless. since it is popular i don’t need help to find it again.
Wealth and Religiosity
US the main outlier, almost the same levels of confusion as venezuela.
Hiccups
Spasms in our diaphragms, hiccups are triggered by electric signals generated in the brain stem. Amphibian brain stems emit similar signals, which control the regular motion of their gills. Our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing.
maybe we should (optionally) get gills back?
Power Plant CO2 Monitoring
CO2 Monitoring for Action is a massive database containing information on the CO2 emissions of 50k power plants and 4k power companies worldwide. Power generation accounts for 40% of all CO2 emissions in the United States and 25% of global emissions. CARMA is the first global inventory of a major, emissions-producing sector of the economy.
Google Email Uploader
why does this not work with a regular gmail account?
Radio Kills the TV Star
The average PBS show on prime time now scores about a 1.4 Nielsen rating … [ed., that’s down roughly 30% over the last decade] On the other side of the ledger the audience for public radio has been growing: there are more than 30m listeners now, compared to just 2m in 1980. “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” NPR’s morning and evening news programs, are the 2nd and 4th most listened to shows in the country. PBS programming costs more than NPR programming, so NPR has been able to innovate easier and most cost-effectively than PBS within the same tight budget.
makes sense that quality programming would die first. it attracts the kind of people intelligent enough to recognize they are wasting away their life in front of the tv.
Subsidize Cities
Cities are marked by knowledge spillovers, a positive externality where human capital grows faster when one is around more humans. Thus, rather than subsidizing rural areas, perhaps we should consider subsidizing cities.
A Slice of Brooklyn Tours
yummy! fuck little italy, seriously.
Ice Hotel
These photos of the ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, just popped up everywhere. I think this might literally be one of the most beautiful hotels in the world. It makes me wonder if architects might someday CNC-mill buildings out of glaciers. “You sleep in a thermal sleeping bag on a special bed of snow and ice, on reindeer skins. You are awakened in the morning with a cup of hot lingonberry juice at your bedside.”
this looks about as alien as anything i have seen. very cool though
Gregor J. Rothfuss 