The backstory on the Shrimp on a Treadmill
Exactly how much taxpayer money did go into the now-famous shrimp treadmill? The treadmill was, in fact, made from spare parts—an old truck inner tube was used for the tread, the bearings were borrowed...
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This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
As the Supreme Court considers extending same-sex marriage rights to all Americans, we look at the patterns of social change that have transformed the nation. Source: This Is How Fast America Changes...
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Do Demographics impact Leadership?
This morning on NPR there was a piece with Howard Dean about how older leaders should step aside and make way for a new generation. This has popped up in politics a bunch of times over the past couple...
View ArticleMany-Eyes and Pork per Capita
Above is one of the many cool visualizations already in many-eyes (direct link here for rss readers that don’t display it), a social visualization site from IBM. I’d heard a little bit about the site...
View ArticleThe truth, with pictures
…because I’ve seen this a couple of places now, and more people should realize that cutting taxes on > 90% of americans is being called raising taxes by the media. …because expanded offshore...
View ArticleSin Fest is Awesome
And you should read it every day, as it’s been this awesome for weeks.
View ArticleThe Daily Show: ending the war on science, the only war we were winning
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View ArticleJohn Hodgman, funny and meaningful as always
John Hodgman was the headliner at the White House Correspondent’s dinner last night, and the intertubes have his speech up already. It’s classic Hodgman, both humorous and meaningful. Check it out on...
View ArticleDear Sinfest, you are awesome
I love both the art and the message in sinfest, this sunday’s strip was just awesome:
View ArticleA generation makes such a difference
The last bit of media that was playing as we came in for approach to JFK from Berlin was an episode of Mad Men. This was an original configuration 767, so there was just the big central screens in...
View ArticleMaybe it’s citizen anchors, not citizen journalists
I found this really insightful. We like to say new media is allowing us all to be journalists. But it’s probably more accurate to say it lets us all be anchors. Sure, the Internet also allows people...
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