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NASDAQ Data Reveals Who's Getting Rich Off the Prison-Industrial Complex
Image via Wikimedia You likely already know how overcrowded and abusive the US prison system is, and you probably are also aware that the US has more people in prison than even China or Russia. In...
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A Quick Lesson on the Disruptive Possibilities of New Technology, Courtesy of...
This nearly half-century-old commercial went viral (or at least Buzzfeed viral) a few years back, but it's got me thinking lately about how assimilated synthesizers eventually became. Even pop-country...
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Bad at Math? Zapping Your Brains Could Help
People that hate math bum me out. There are a lot of them, particularly in the subset of people I often interact with (20 to 40-year-olds that do art or music things). From a certain perspective, math...
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New Research Quantifies Just How Deadly Climate Change Is Making New York's...
Hose shot by Guian Bolisay In 2010, heat killed approximately 55,000 people in Russia, dwarfing the total death toll of every American hurricane combined. Daytime temperatures hit a cruising altitude...
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The Feds Are Making It Hurt in Every Way Possible for Weev, But for What?
Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, who is currently serving jail time for exposing an AT&T security hole, got an in-person visit from his lawyer Tor Ekeland on Sunday. The four-hour-plus drive out to the...
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Is This Drone Video of the Costa Concordia Disaster Porn?
(via) It's not the first time a small-fry drone has spun up over the site of the doomed cruise liner. But it's certainly the most visually stunning. Which is something the makers of this video...
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The App for Cleansing Your Colon, Because Older Folks Are Also Disrupting Shit
One of Samsung's recent arguments against the iPhone is that the iPhone is the phone of old people. But let's not assume that just because old people like a particular gadget, it must be bad. In any...
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I'll Tumblr For Ya
With Yahoo's acquisiton of Tumblr for $1.1 billion, we thought we'd dig up this interview with David Karp, the site's founder, from November 2009. - The eds. David Karp is 23 and the founder and...
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Our Climate Death Spiral: Charts, Maps & Graphs Edition
By now you are likely aware that carbon dioxide levels have reached 400 parts per million in Earth's atmosphere. It's been three million years since that last happened, but there were no humans around...
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What Is Worth $1.1 Billion Dollars
Image: Deviant Art, CC Yahoo!, the company that created the website your grandparents may still have as their home page because they haven't figured out how to change it, just ponied up $1.1 billion...
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How to Buy a Social Network Without Screwing It Up
Image: Flickr, CC In its feeding frenzy of tech startups, Yahoo! just moved on from the appetizer menu to the main course. And it ordered the lobster. CEO Marissa Mayer officially announced today that...
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The Third Most 'Gamous' Person: A Chat With Tim Schafer
Tim Schafer has lived many lives in the game industry. He's the man behind your favorite old school LucasArts adventure games like The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Grim Fandango....
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Why Trolls Troll: Meet One of the Web's Noisiest Climate Deniers
A casual survey reveals that approximately half of the interent is populated with porn, and another quarter with trolls. The rest is mostly Huffington Post reblogs. But here's the thing about those...
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A Large Majority of Chinese Vow to Take On Pollution With Protest
Photo from a protest in Kunming, May 16, 2013, via Weibo It should now come as no surprise that people in China, like people pretty much anywhere, get mad as hell about industrial pollution in their...
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The Next Free Trade Agreement Aims to Regulate the Internet
(via) The Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, is up for a vote in the European Parliament this Wednesday, May 22. TAFTA is a free trade area proposal between the European Union and the United States....
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Motherboard Does Drugs, Sex, Drones, and Code at Internet Week
Denizens of the World Wide Web take note: Internet Week is upon us. (This is not to be confused with Internet week, which is just every week.) For five splendid days, we can avert our strained and...
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Illinois Law Takes Aim At Social Media-Aided Flash Mobs
Governor Pat Quinn (via) Naturally, the city Nelson Algren said "that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness," would be the one to forge mayhem out of a singing and...
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Video: CCTV Camera Vs. Spy Drone
Is this what the changing of the guard looks like? Maybe. That's why this video is so striking--it finds a long-standing, unblinking staple of public surveillance face to face with the new kid on the...
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The Birth, Life, and Death of the Tornado that Devastated Moore, OK
The tornado you are watching take shape would eventually become a mile wide. It would sweep through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, leveling everything in its path and killing at least 24 people. But...
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US Groundwater Levels Are Falling Faster Than Any Time in the Past Century
Photo: brewbrooks/Flickr A new study from the US Geological Survey reveals that groundwater aquifers in the United States have been depleted at record high levels over the first decade of the 21st...
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