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March 17, 2014
Proposed Building Looks Like A Giant Zipper
The winner of [AC-CA]'s latest contest plays with the tower shape to create a vertical campus for an architecture school.
Recent graduates Ali Chen and Evan Shieh have spun their architecture-school education into a creative new proposal for a unversity in Dubai: "Blue Tape," a tower that looks like a giant zipper. This week, the plan won international architectural competition organizer [AC-CA]'s [DUBAI] Architecture School Tower contest.
Wes Anderson Is Obsessed With Symmetry [Supercut]
The king of twee-filmmaking loves--loves--a symmetrical shot. See a bunch of them here.
People love symmetry. Especially people named Wes Anderson.
Twitter Tests "Fave People" Feature To Track Accounts In Separate Timeline
The feature reportedly appeared in an alpha version of Twitter's Android app.
Twitter is testing a "Fave People" feature that lets users track certain Twitter accounts in a separate timeline.
Study: Social Media Isn't Replacing Traditional News Outlets At All
The Media Insight Project--a joint effort between the American Press Institute (API), the Associated Press, and NORC at the University of Chicago--takes a look at the "personal news cycle" and how Americans consume the news.
The way we consume news is a hot topic in the media industry. Startups like Circa are banking on the fact that people frequently prefer their news updates delivered in snack-sized bites. Others, like Ezra Klein's yet-to-launch Vox, are betting big on readers who might want to wade deep into tricky, complicated subject matter, like the history of the crisis in Ukraine.
Is The Startup Prize The New Startup Accelerator?
The Robin Hood Foundation announced today it is offering $5 million for "college success" education apps. The twist: The "prize" looks and feels like an incubator with a research component.
More than one-third of higher education students are enrolled in community college--close to 7 million per year. Unfortunately, community college graduation rates are at rock bottom--at the City University of New York, for example, only 40% of students graduate within six years. For students taking remedial courses, the graduation rate is just 26%. What's at stake? Over $10,000 in annual income compounded over a lifetime, the average difference between what dropouts and graduates earn each year.
The Creator Of This Amazing Beyonce Emoji Video Did It For Love
Sometimes trying to impress a girl ends in embarrassment. But every so often--like with this "Drunk in Love" emoji video--you strike creative gold.
Jesse Hill, who a week ago won over fans of Beyonce and emoji alike with his wonderful "Drunk In Love" emoji music video, has put out another, similar creation to the tune of Rick Ross's "Sanctified," featuring Kanye West and Big Sean. The clip, which cleverly uses the popular texting symbols to illustrate the song's lyrics, is just as mesmerizing as his debut, as you can see below. (I particularly like his eggplant usage.)
Scientists Say They've Discovered Echoes Of The Big Bang
The detection of gravitational waves reaffirms the theory of cosmic inflation, where the universe expanded exponentially within the first fraction of a second of the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago.
Scientists have discovered gravitational waves that reaffirm the theory of cosmic inflation, which suggests that the universe rapidly expanded within the first fraction of a second of the Big Bang, almost 14 billion years ago.
Techstars And Sprint Aim To Expand The Definition Of Mobile Healthware
Global talent landed in Kansas City for an accelerator designed to mobilize health care. Will they stick around?
KANSAS CITY, MO.-Ollo Mobile has been building its smart-care phone in Brisbane, Australia, for the past two years. Until now.
Great News For Kids With Fake IDs! People Are Terrible At Matching Faces To Photos
People who infrequently encountered fake IDs failed to catch nearly half of them, a new study shows. Hopefully the TSA gets much better training.
It's not terribly difficult to get past a bouncer with someone else's ID card. In many cases, if you've got vaguely the same hair and skin color and can quickly rattle off the address listed on the card, you're in the clear. It's probably not because bouncers are bad at their jobs, or are deliberately lax, but rather a simple fact of human nature--we're pretty awful at matching strangers' photos to their faces. With no reference point as to how they look on an everyday basis, as we might have with a friend, we get thrown off by weird lighting, changes in beard growth and hair color, new glasses, and more.
March 14, 2014
Doing Laundry In NYC Sucks--Can FlyCleaners Make It More Seamless?
The company behind this dry cleaning and laundry service app hopes to clean up in a market ripe for disruption.
If you live in New York City, you know how to pronounce Houston Street, the very best taxi-nabbing strategies, and that doing something as simple-seeming as laundry can actually be as complicated as finding an affordable apartment.
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