wind turbines could disrupt a hurricane enough to reduce peak wind speeds by up to 148 km/h and decrease storm surge by up to 79%. the way to get this done is to tie relief funds to turbine permits, so that people insisting to rebuild in flood zones can’t pull NIMBY maneuvers.
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Sharing Finances
what happens when you have a shared account with one person 10k in the black and the other 10k in the red. good times.
New Apple compromises
you’ll want to update all your apple products. really. on that note i wouldn’t be surprised if all the apple tvs and airports and other peripherals were vulnerable too. good luck
I don’t want your fucking app
i give the “app” model 1-2 years. single purpose, shitty apps that really only just wrap a web view clogging up your phone. some genius added “folders” but that buys you only so many additional apps per phone before the cognitive load is too much. things are already quite broken, with 50% of apps being used a grand total of 5x or less.
Polymer
you’ll want to make time for learning polymer this year if you do web development of any kind.
Whole Foods pseudoscience
Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. It’s all pseudoscience—so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others?
If you want to write about spiritually-motivated pseudoscience in America, you head to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. It’s like a Law of Journalism. The museum has inspired 100s of book chapters and articles (some of them, admittedly, mine) since it opened up in 2007. The place is like media magnet. And our nation’s liberal, coastal journalists are so many piles of iron fillings.
But you don’t have to schlep all the way to Kentucky in order to visit America’s greatest shrine to pseudoscience. In fact, that shrine is a 15-minute trip away from most American urbanites.
an inconvenient truth for people who watched an inconvenient truth in theaters.
Theranos
while everyone is complaining about obamacare, theranos is improving health/$ dramatically. their blood tests cost dramatically less, are much faster and require much less blood. they will save $200b from medicare/medicaid in the next 10 years. coming to your walgreens soon.
Stupor mundi
A man of extraordinary culture, energy, and ability – called by a contemporary chronicler stupor mundi (the wonder of the world), by Nietzsche the first European, and by many historians the first modern ruler. Speaking 6 languages (Latin, Sicilian, German, French, Greek and Arabic), Frederick was an avid patron of science and the arts. Frederick’s religious skepticism was unusual for the era in which he lived, and to his contemporaries was highly shocking and scandalous. To the dislike of some of his contemporaries, Frederick did not believe things that could not be explained by reason
Visual sorting
The algorithm interactively arranges pictures by certain visual characteristics such as size and color to create an overall harmonious image, replacing hours of doing it by hand.
Celery fights Kale
celery (steve buscemi) is fighting back against brussel sprouts and kale.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 