Month: March 2013

China missing rivers

More than 50% of the rivers previously thought to exist in China appear to be missing.

water wars soon?

Home cooking

Cash transfers work

What if cash transfers are used as a standard benchmark against which to measure all development aid? What if every nonprofit that focused on poverty alleviation had to prove they could do more for the poor with $1 than the poor could do for themselves?

No Segways

seen in boston

sheepletweet

the spreading of poorly sourced, sensationalistic click bait.

Mitochondrial outsourcing

Genetically, the mitochondrion has lost all but a handful of its 4000 bacterial genes, down to 37 in humans. Over many generations, the mitochondria outsource their genes to the nucleus. Is this starting to sound familiar? We have been outsourcing our intelligence, and our humanity, to machines for centuries. As we invent each new computer task, we define it away as not “really” human. The real question is, what will be the essential human thing left that we contribute to the machines we inhabit?

Backup Life

as life backups become a thing, expect this sort of stuff to be much more common. and then of course some will turn off the backup intentionally to make it feel more real.

The Ukrainian urban climber “Mustang Wanted” has described himself as a “dumbass” – not for hanging by 1 arm off the sides of buildings, as you might think, but for failing to maintain a proper website to update his legion of fans.

Techshop

i’m far from a scoble fan but this is very awesome. lots of surreal stuff, like the red phone to the USPTO. for some unknown reason, techshop nyc has been delayed by nearly a year now. i hope it launches soon.

America’s most important startup?
This is a really long video. More than an hour. Why is it so long? Because Techshop could be the most important startup to United States’ manufacturing industry. Here we spend an hour with CEO Mark Hatch.

What is Techshop? It’s a place where you can make things. We get an in-depth tour. You can learn more here

In this video you’ll also meet several startups that call Techshop home.

This is why Techshop is so important to our economy. It’s providing a place for many other startups to get going, meet cofounders, and make the things that need to be made to startup companies.

Don’t miss the discussion of 3D printing at 36 minutes into the video: America’s most important startup? as we visit one of the startups located at Techshop San Francisco, Type A Machines. Learn more about this 3D Printing Startup

At 45 minutes into the video we meet SF Made, a non-profit that is helping the growing manufacturing sector in San Francisco America’s most important startup?

At 54 minutes into the tour we meet ProtoTank, a startup that makes unique signs. America’s most important startup?

At 62 minutes into it, the founder of ProtoTank shows me a cool wearable LED system he built. America’s most important startup?

GoT Piracy

Indeed.

Sky Space

The James Turrell sky space at Moma PS1 is only open when the weather cooperates (which it did today). Coincidentally, there was also a exhibit of his models at Pace gallery.