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Gliese 581d was thought to be uninhabitable. But we're in luck. It seems like a lovely place to live
Read More »The Lost Galaxies (preview)
I have always been startled and fascinated by the sandlike abundance of galaxies sprinkled across the night sky. The most sensitive optical image ever made by human beings, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, captures some 10,000 galaxies in an area about 1/100th the size of the full moon
Read More »Rube Goldbergers Syyn Labs Hack Saturday Night Fun With Tuxedos, Charity, And "Chess Boxing"
The League of Extraordinary Nerds takes over saturday night with cultural exploration and charity fund raising. The League of Extraordinary Nerds wants reform the tired bar scene with some cultural infusion and a healthy dose of charity. Syyn Labs, the digital arts company widely known for helping make
Read More »Large Hadron Collider sets world record beam intensity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Around midnight this night CERN's Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 x 1032cm-2s-1. This exceeds the previous world record of 4.024 x 1032cm-2s-1, which was set by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron collider in 2010, and marks an important milestone in LHC commissioning.
Read More »5 Tips for Managing IT Across Multiple Offices
One location, for a growing business, is typically not enough. With enough personnel and capital, many businesses prefer to set up multiple offices to attract different regions of customers. With separate offices how can your business install a network so all the locations can work, communicate, and share information easily, instantaneously, and effectively?
Read More »How to Lose a Loyal Diner
I've had several good meals at The Ten Bells, a well-reviewed wine bar in Manhattan's Lower East Side over the last couple years. Dark and cozy and decorated with empty wine bottles and chalkboards that display that day's menu, the food is simple and delicious—tapas like papas bravas, albondigas, and creamy brandade, as well as excellent charcuterie (duck rillettes!) and cheeses.
Read More »Will Electric Cars Be The Next Red/Blue Divide?
Ford --which is about to release an all-electric version of the Focus--just put out the above map of the United States with the cities it feels are best suited to electric car ownership. And with a few exceptions, it looks like the flyover states aren't making preparations for the messianic arrival of the electric car. What do you want to bet that in the next presidential election, we'll add "electric-car" to the litany of liberal-associative words like arugula, lattes, and sushi
Read More »An Unlikely Place to Nurture the Entrepreneurial Spirit? Jail.
B.J. was one of many fellow inmates with big plans for the future
Read More »Wireless Charging for Electric Cars Is Cool but Totally Unnecessary
Why do we demand things of electric cars that we would never demand of normal ones?
Read More »Leadership Hall of Fame: Why Companies Fail to Innovate
How does a company's structure and ability to adopt new tech affect it's ability to evolve strategically?We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) by Clayton M. Christensen. From the earliest studies of the problems of innovation, scholars, consultants, and managers have tried to explain why leading firms frequently stumble when confronting technology change.
Read More »A New Way to Tip
You've just had a gorgeous restaurant meal: Delicious food, attentive service and an atmosphere that made you feel both indulged and privileged. You already know to tip your server nicely, but what else can you do
Read More »Video: Fallon thanks Tiger for comedy material
Best of Late Night: Morning Joe re-caps the best of late night including a Kimmel sketch involving actor Fred Willard and Oprah’s shoe collection and Fallon’s interview with Tiger Woods. (Morning Joe)
Read More »Giant refinery becoming unwelcome guest in Curacao
By Marianna Parraga WILLEMSTAD (Reuters) - Lighting up the night sky with flames from its chimneys, Curacao's giant Isla refinery is at the center of an increasingly acrimonious dispute over the island's economic and environmental future. [More]
Read More »Airbnb Mobile App Stands Out at SXSW
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