No, that’s not a painting, that’s a photo of Jupiter. And that red spot? That’s a 300-year-old hurricane three times the size of Earth — more bizarre and incredible photos of space weather HERE: http://slate.me/S5mhvk
Imaging at a Trillion Frames Per Second, A TED Talk by Ramesh Raskar
This will undoubtedly lead to some amazing tech in the near future.
npr:
It’s Friday night! Perhaps you have need of a bottle of wine for a nice evening out (or in)? Don’t fret. We at the Discovery News tumblr page have found a way to help you pick. If it looks complicated, that’s because it is.
Infografica dedicata al vino
Good luck with this. — tanya b.
Wild Turkey #16 Par 3. Played 191 yards that day. Got up and down from off the right side for par. (Taken with Instagram)
Watch the trailer for The Man With the Iron Fists, co-written and directed by RZA, and featuring what must be the tagline of the year: “You can’t spell kung fu without F and U.”
The new Mobile Mindset study, conducted by Harris Interactive, has revealed a great deal of new information about the habits of mobile phone users. Nearly 60% of those surveyed said they don’t go more than an hour without checking their phone, while 73% said they felt a sense of panic if/when their device is lost. The most surprising statistic though, at least to us, were the primary reasons people fear losing their phones — only six percent of those surveyed said they were worried that valuable account information could be stolen, while 38% cited the cost and hassle of replacing the phone.
npr:
I ran some API queries on the NPR API site and then made some Google Docs archiving our roster by topic/reviewer. Here’s the result:
Every Author Interview on Fresh Air from 2010-2012
Every Music Interview on Fresh Air from 2010-2012
Every Television Interview on Fresh Air from 2009-2012
Every Animal Story on Fresh Air from 2009-2012
Every Theater Story on Fresh Air 2009-2012
Every Food Story on Fresh Air 2009-2012
Every Sports Story on Fresh Air 2009-2012
David Bianculli reviews 2009-2012
Maureen Corrigan reviews 2009-2012
Geoff Nunberg commentaries 2009-2012
David Edelstein reviews 2009-2012
Milo Miles reviews (world music) 2007-2012
Lloyd Schwartz reviews 2007-2012
Kevin Whitehead reviews 2007-2012
There’s also a master list for
If anyone can think of a better way to list these, by all means PLEASE let me know. I’m a one-woman web shop with limited programming abilities (AP C++ in 12th grade, mainly) and don’t have time to make these look the way they should. But if you’d like to, I’m happy to supply you with the API query I used and anything else you might need.
-Mel
There’s been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It’s really easy to say, ‘Well, you’re Christian, you’re anti-this and that, and I hate you.’ But to me, it’s more interesting to say, ‘What is this person like and how do they really think?’ Do I have any common ground with people like that who find me really, really offensive? Do I have common ground with them? It’s worth exploring.
