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May 16, 2014
Wild! Tableware Made From Animal Bones, Fur, And Skin
It's not your average IKEA dinner set.
Long before mass-produced plastic dishware, humans made tools and utensils from animal bones, hair, and hides. But the industrial meat industry has done away with the traditional and sustainable practice of using every part of the animal, and we're left with disposable Solo cups clogging landfills.
The Top 5 Leadership Stories, May 12-16
Getting retweets, cool negotiation perks, and serious about our smaller goals: This week, we thought outside the box.
We were feeling freaky this week, with ideas about alternative kinds of intelligence, strange (and totally awesome) job perks, and calling out our passions as B.S.
The Uber CEO's Secret To A $10 Billion Company: Good Timing
It'd be nice to think your startup's success is something you fully control. But Travis Kalanick, founder of several startup flops--and the uber-successful Uber--says it's mostly about having a feel for timing.
Fresh off the rumors that his car-on-demand service, Uber, could soon be worth more than $10 billion, CEO Travis Kalanick has some useful advice for aspiring entrepreneurs: Timing is everything.
Take A Look Inside North Korea Through Google Glass
A citizen journalist was permitted to take a few snaps of the Hermit Kingdom while wearing Glass. Here's what he saw.
Compared to the rest of Asia, computing technology in North Korea is stuck in a time capsule, a relic of a different decade. So when an outsider sets foot in the Hermit Kingdom wearing Google Glass, it is clearly pretty amazing.
This Startup Wants To Make Your Commute Shorter, Through Prizes And Data
Crunching data from smart commuter cards, Urban Engines can help cities map out where the congestion choke points are in a transportation system, and provide incentives for commuters to avoid them.
Balaji Prabhakar, a Stanford University computer scientist, was stuck in a massive traffic jam in Bangalore, when he began to think about the congestion plaguing rapidly growing cities across the world. The experience sparked an experiment he conducted with the Indian company Infosys and 20,000 of its employees in the city. Could you cut down on congestion if you gave people incentives to drive to and from work at "off-peak" hours?
Advertising's Next Frontier: The Moon
A Japanese company is sending its electrolyte-packed beverage, Pocari Sweat, to the lunar surface.
On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon. In just over four decades since, only 11 other people have had the honor of doing the same. Our quixotic fascination with the bright, shiny object hanging in the night sky is hardly a secret, and in a bizarre new twist, a Japanese pharmaceutical firm would like to become the first company to advertise there. Their goal is to boldly send a sports drink where only 12 people have had the pleasure of boldly going before.
May 15, 2014
The 9 Best Languages For Crunching Data
Here's a roadmap to the latest and greatest tools in data science, and when you should use them.
This story contains interviews with Michael Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets; Paul Butler, data scientist at Chango and formerly at Facebook; and Niall O'Connor, vice president at Bank of America.
The FCC Moves Forward With A Proposal That Could Throttle An Open Internet
The proposal that could make the "Internet fast lane" a reality moves into the comment phase.
The Federal Communications Commission is taking the next step on a proposal that many say would render a truly open Internet obsolete. It concerns the creation of what's been hailed an "Internet fast lane," which would allow large companies like Google, Netflix, and others to pay Internet service providers extra for faster connectivity--just like a speeding car in the freeway toll lane.
What You'll Look Like At 100
Photographer Anastasia Pottinger beautifully documents the bodies of people who've lived into the triple digits.
In our heavily Botoxed culture, it's rare to see images that present aged skin as beautiful. That's part of what makes Missouri-based photographer Anastasia Pottinger's ongoing series, "Centenarians," so powerful. In these black-and-white shots of people over the age of 100, the skin, close-up and abstracted, appears to be a fluid current of running water; legs appear as petrified tree branches.
Beautiful Beer Foamer Elevates Craft Beer To Craft Cocktail
A $55 beer foamer? Here's the next bar accessory you never knew you needed.
A splash of salt. A grain of rice. The perfect pour. All of these methods are entirely capable of foaming a beer on their own. But Norm Architects has another idea called the Beer Foamer, for Menu. It's an elegant, battery operated, copper-plated mixer that takes a few tablespoons of beer and whips them up into foamy perfection.
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