Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that. Wallit is a new location-aware app which advertises itself with the tagline "walls for places." Essentially it lets its users place a digital Post-it note, or an invisible piece of graffiti if you like, on a virtual "wall" connected to a real place on Earth
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Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that.
Read More »Don’t Be Like Goldman Sachs: 5 Ways
Regardless of what industry you're in, how can you make sure your company culture doesn't grow toxic over time? By now, everyone has weighed in on the Goldman Sachs crisis.
Read More »Don’t Be Like Goldman Sachs: 5 Ways
Regardless of what industry you're in, how can you make sure your company culture doesn't grow toxic over time? By now, everyone has weighed in on the Goldman Sachs crisis. Pundits have pilloried the firm for enabling a toxic and destructive culture
Read More »Meet the ‘Richard Branson of Iceland’
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Read More »‘Titanic’ Director James Cameron Heads into the Ocean Abyss
By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths. [More]
Read More »‘Titanic’ Director James Cameron Heads into the Ocean Abyss
By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths.
Read More »Pollution Is Regarded as the Big Barrier to Freer Trade in Rare Earth Elements
By David Stanway and James Regan BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tackling pollution, not freeing up trade, is regarded as the solution to a global shortage of rare earths, the metals that are the building blocks of the 21st century.
Read More »A Fun DIY Science Goodie: Proof Yourself Against Sensationalized Stats
For my book Brain Trust , I interviewed Keith Devlin, NPR s Math Guy, a World Economic Forum fellow, and math professor at Stanford.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Robot Squirrels, Amoebas, Pilots, And… Guilt?
Bot Vid: Robo Squirrel Working with wild rattlesnakes is not exactly the safest or simplest job in the world. It's harder to study them in a realistic enviroment than friendlier, less fang-y animals...like squirrels
Read More »Fear of Failure & a $200 Million Payoff
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Read More »Scientists reveal inner workings of magnets, a finding that could lead to faster computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the worlds fastest light source -- specialized X-ray lasers -- scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have revealed the secret inner life of magnets, a finding that could lead to faster and smarter computers.
Read More »Why You’d Fail at Goldman Sachs
If your personal beliefs don't mesh with a company's corporate culture, you're destined to fail. On Wednesday, the Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith resigned his job by writing a scathing op-ed in the New York Times . In that column, written as an exit letter, he accuses top management of encouraging predatory sales practices that actively hurt customers: "I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients
Read More »World’s tallest man Sultan Kosen stops growing
Sultan Kosen of Turkey, the world's tallest man, stands at 8 feet 3 inches
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