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Someday... we'll have awesome trains too!
High speed rail has been undeniably successful for China. So successful, in fact, that it’s putting a massive dent in the airline industry. BusinessWeek reports:
China Southern Airlines Co...
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Just How ‘Invincible’ Is China’s High Speed Rail? It’s Hurting Air Travel
Photosynthesis uses quantum interactions to harvest light
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I love this research because of this thought: If plants everywhere are using quantum interactions and we are only able to do them in laboratory settings, then we're doing it wrong. The future is bright indeed!
A new experimental setup ...
Democrats Shouldn't Scorn Rep. Paul Ryan Budget Blueprint
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I have a problem with the focus on the politics here. From what i've heard, Ryan has some good policy ideas and these articles are telling me jack squat about them. Just that "dems should be scared", which is pretty useless to me.
The ...
Hugo Chavez Declares Electricity Emergency in Venezuela
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Guys guys! Capitalism is causing a drought AND it's also kept Chavez from spending Venezuela's oil wealth on more power plants that could have prevented this situation! Let's all be commies and see how that turns out!
Chavez warned tha...
How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist
On the drive back from Madison yesterday, I listened to a lecture by MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle on the very personal relationships we have with objects, particularly the objects that help us think. Turkle talked about her 2008 book, Falling for S...
The Rise of High-quality Nonprofit Videogaming
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This game is both good and good for you!
A new nonprofit shows that well-designed games can also do the world some good. "Good works are links that form a chain of love." —Mother Theresa At a conference of the country's top advertis...
Audi A1 news – Finally, Audi’s Mini is here – 2010 – BBC Top Gear
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I'm curious what it looks like in person. So far I'm not loving the way the C pillar ends before the back-end. It looks like its got some junk in the trunk, if you get my drift... I do love the Audi running lamps though!
Audi’s Polo/...
Writing for the mind’s movie screen
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this sounds like a wonderful way to spend the time...
Do you know about ScriptShadow? It’s one of my favorite blogs lately: a smart, snarky, insidery screenplay review. It focuses (as best I can discern) on screenplays that have been...
The American Conservative — No Exit
Yet this generation of soldiers has learned what force can and cannot accomplish. Its members understand the folly of imagining that war provides a neat and tidy solution to vexing problems. They are unlikely to confuse Churchillian calls to arms with ...
Authentic imitation
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Did not know that! I love the concept though.
The way that books used to be printed, the reader would have to cut open each page with a paper knife before it could be read, every page a tiny gift from the writer.
The printing happen...