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May 5, 2014
We Can't Wait To Watch This Frederick Law Olmsted Doc
The famed landscape architect is the subject of a new hour-long documentary.
Frederick Law Olmsted, god of 19th century landscape architecture, is coming to the small screen. Olmsted, who shaped some of the earliest park systems in the country, will be the subject of a new documentary premiering on PBS next month.
You Can Now Add Stuff To Your Amazon Cart Through Twitter With A Hashtag
Now, you can reply with a hashtag to Amazon links to add stuff to your shopping cart.
Are you so addicted to Twitter that you can't pry yourself away from your tweet stream to do anything else? Well, good news! Amazon just unrolled a new initiative that lets you buy goods on Twitter…using a hashtag.
Why The R Programming Language Is Good For Business
Thanks to one company, the same code that is revolutionizing the scientific community is now moving up the ranks of the business world.
This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; and Solomon Messing, data scientist at Facebook.
Please Fall Asleep During This Performance
A New York show, Dream of the Red Chamber, is exploring what happens when you don't need the audience's attention.
Starting May 9, for a few nights only, New Yorkers can go see a performance piece that encourages its audience to fall asleep. Director Jim Findlay's dreamy play, Dream of the Red Chamber, is an abstract interpretation of a 2,400-page, 18th century Chinese novel that Findlay read 20 years ago. The idea to create a play for a sleeping audience based on the book, he says, hit him in three seconds.
May 2, 2014
Is the WWE Network Taking Pay-Per-View To The Top Rope?
Like many media companies, WWE is tuning up its digital distribution efforts, leaving its legacy businesses in question.
Long known for its pricey premium TV events, the WWE is changing course, moving away from pay-per-view events toward Internet distribution. The upside: Having its own network means connecting directly with consumers, eschewing the cable and satellite companies who act as gatekeepers. But there's a huge risk to this strategy, too--that viewers won't move networks with them.
The Next Heartbleed Bug? Hard-to-Fix "Covert Redirect" Flaw Discovered
The worst part? Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other affected sites can't easily patch it.
Remember Heartbleed, the recent web-wide security flaw? In terms of nascent vulnerabilities on the web, the OpenSSL bug might have been just the tip of the iceberg. Wang Jing, a PhD student at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, unearthed a flaw in OAuth 2.0 and OpenID--which are open-sourced login tools used by sites like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn--that could put a user's data at risk.
See The Mona Lisa As It Was (Maybe) Intended: In 3-D
A pair of experimental psychologists say the Mona Lisa may be the world's first 3-D image.
The mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, arguably one of the most famous paintings in the world, are never-ending. Who was this woman? Is she smiling? Did she once have eyebrows? The latest theory on the 16th-century masterpiece purports that da Vinci--a prolific inventor, scientist, and artist--was even more ahead of his time than we thought. According to a pair of experimental psychologists in Germany, Mona Lisa could be the world's first 3-D image.
Meet The Woman Sewing Life-Sized Dolls Of Everyone Who Dies In Her Village
The short documentary The Valley of Dolls introduces us to a 64-year-old woman in Nagoro, Japan, who is repopulating her village one hand-sewn, life-sized doll at a time.
Ayano Tsukimi, age 64, is one of just 37 people still living in Nagoro, a village in the Iya Valley of Shikoku in Japan. When Tsukimi was young, her rural village population was in the hundreds, but as elders passed away and youngsters relocated to the cities, Nagoro shrank in size.
Dime Bag Not Included: Yes, You Can Actually Buy Willie Nelson's Old Tour Bus On Craigslist
Get on the road again, starting at $36,000.
Rare is the piece of music memorabilia that you can live in.
Watch SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Float Gently Back To The Ground After Launching
Whoa.
Rockets like NASA's Atlas V are amazing feats of engineering, but they have one small problem: Once they're done launching to the stars, they become $100 million pieces of junk left to be incinerated upon re-entry.
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