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Technology Isn’t Ruining Your Sex Life
Image via Flickr/airgap This week, the latest reports from the UK’s National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) were released, and they revealed a treasure trove of intimate data about...
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When You Buy Pizza With Bitcoins, This Man Makes Money
Tony Gallippi Imagine selling lemonade on the street for £5. Imagine storing that hard-earned money in a jar and doing jack shit for a week. Suddenly, the money in your jar has grown to £50. Now...
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Soylent vs. Thanksgiving
Image: Flickr A spectacular conglomeration of carbs, calories, and nutrients is still churning around in my gut, even a day later, amidst the detritus of a particularly fine Thanksgiving dinner. Twenty...
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"My Name Is Walter White and I'm a Meth Cook"
VICE's "Fringe" series meets the real Walter White, an Alabama meth dealer that had been neck-deep in building his drug empire for 10 years when Breaking Bad hit the air. His story ends a bit...
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Noise Pollution and Pop Music Could Make Solar Energy More Efficient
Josh Sisk It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in the United States, and if you’re an American, that probably means being somewhere really stupid for some period of time, like an airport or hometown bar or...
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Grey Moon, Green Moon: NASA Wants to Make Its Next "Giant Leap" With Just Plants
Arabidopsis/Wikipedia In the 1960s, NASA sent robotic probes and landers to test the lunar environment before sending men. In the 2010s, the agency is sending plants in advance of its manned missions....
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Can OpenGov's Madison Platform Change the Surveillance State?
Jaymis Loveday/Flickr Last week, the non-partisan, non-profit OpenGov Foundation and US Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) announced they are using the Madison lawmaking software to help craft the...
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The Hellscene of Fukushima Scare Blogs Beckons
Tuna processing/Wikipedia Do a quick Google search right now for “Fukushima ocean radiation.” The results are a crime-scene: maybe an actual link of reported, accurate journalism per page. Most...
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Like It or Not, Bitcoin Has Already Transformed Society
Ever since the value of one Bitcoin rose above $200 USD in late October, I’ve been obsessively catching up on all the lost time I’ve missed out on since the ethereal cryptocurrency was born in 2009....
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Did One of the Silk Road's Successors Just Commit the Perfect Bitcoin Scam?
Image via Flickr/Mike Haller Yesterday, Sheep Marketplace, an anonymous digital narcotics bazaar that grew popular after the shutdown of the Silk Road, announced that it had been robbed of 5,400...
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The Space Shuttle Isn't Racist, It's a Work of Art
Photo by Robert Pearlman, Collectspace.com Houston, we are the problem, someone scrawled last week alongside the right fuselage of Space Shuttle Independence, which now sits in a lot outside the Space...
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The Next Glassholes: Seven Future-People Who'll Piss Us Off
Not Nick Starr, via Flickr/CC. I’m guessing that by now you’ve heard of Seattle “Glasshole” Nick Starr, a network engineer that made a big gross scene at a restaurant about being able to wear his...
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Drones Are Giving Us the Best View of Violent Protests Yet
Four people have died and at least 100 have been injured during the escalating anti-government protests in Bangkok, as demonstrators fight to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck and her allies....
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We May Inherit Our Fears
Image via Wikimedia Commons It can be hard to figure out where our fears and anxieties come from, but perhaps we should look to our own history for answers. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience...
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James Murphy's 50,000-Watt Soundsystem Could Make Your Ears Bleed (But It Won't)
Forget the sound of silver. This is the sound of "slow." That's "despacio" in Spanish. It's a chord that lays at the heart of a new mid-tempo DJ sound rig, the brainchild of Murphy, 2ManyDJ's David...
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Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Have Doubled Since Last Year
via Wikimedia Commons Last month, a company working on behalf of the publisher Random House, asked Google to remove links to a free copy of Stephen King’s Carrie from search results. Google complied...
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Let's Build a Train That Never Stops
Image: Priestmangoode Trains of one sort or another—preferably the high-speed variety—are going to play an important role in our transportation future. Especially if they don't ever have to stop....
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China's Moon Run Is Raising an Age-Old Question
For the first time in almost 40 years, humans are landing a rover on the Moon. Assuming that China's Chang’e 3 mission, which launched yesterday, successfully lands its six-wheeled Jade Rabbit rover,...
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The Man Who Prints Guns Wants to Be Our "Bitcoin Ethicist"
Image via Wikimedia Commons “I want to develop an ethics for Bitcoin,” Cody Wilson told a rapt crowd in London. “I feel like Bitcoin has no strong ethicist.” You probably know Wilson as the guy who 3D...
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Everything That Has to Happen Before Amazon's Drones Can Actually Deliver
Prime Air promo, via Amazon Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos pitched his drone vision as a simple matter of evolution. He’s almost certainly right: Of all potential commercial applications for...
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