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February 7, 2014
An Interview With Jimi Hendrix, Days Before He Died
A week before his death, the rock legend gave an intimate interview about the real Jimi Hendrix experience. PBS now brings it to life in a new animation.
In September of 1970, a week before Jimi Hendrix died at the age of 27, he was interviewed by British journalist Keith Altham in London. They touched on everything from freaky hairstyles to the future of audio-visual displays to raging against the establishment. PBS's animation series Blank on Blank recently got a hold of those tape reels and turned the conversation into a six-minute animation.
How A Panic Over Cancer-Causing Apples Created The Modern Organic Food Market
You may not remember alar, a ripening agent used on apples. But the media firestorm over its harmful effects were a huge turning point in creating a mass market for organic and natural foods.
When the March 27, 1989 issue of Newsweek hit newsstands, Gene Kahn raced out and bought 20 copies.
Dice Vegetables Like An Iron Chef With This Cutting Board
The Finer Slicing cutting board gives home chefs a crash course in the geometry of food prep.
Cooking, like math, is a game of precision. Sure, there are plenty of Crock Pot dishes that don't require finesse. But for the more ambitious home cook trying a complex recipe there's likely going to be some mise en place involved.
A New Way To Measure Energy Efficiency That Counts What You Use The Energy For
Energy efficiency doesn't occur in a vacuum. The building-energy-efficiency coefficient also measures how much you're contributing to the economy with the energy you're using.
Instead of grading buildings on how much energy they use, engineering consultancy Buro Happold has come up with a more nuanced measure of energy efficiency: whether every bit of energy consumed is being put to good use.
See How Climate Change Is Warming Things Up Where You Live
This interactive tool can tell you how climate change has affected your town or city in the past--and give you an idea of what might happen in the future.
Climate change is a global phenomenon. But what many people really want to know is how it's affecting them--their backyard, their town, their city. These interactive maps, which show how places have warmed in the last century, can give you an idea. The maps let you type in any location to get a specific picture. Orange indicates greatest change, followed by yellow, and so on.
Why Flow, Amazon's Magical Search Tech, Won't Kill Off Retail
Flow lets you to compare prices of items you see in retail shops just by waving your smartphone at them--and then buy those items from Amazon instead. But that doesn't mean brick-and-mortar stores are dead.
Yesterday, Amazon quietly updated its official iPhone app with Flow, an augmented-reality search function that allows you to compare prices of items you see in retail shops just by waving your smartphone at them--and then buy those items from Amazon instead.
Millennials Want Companies That Work On Innovative Ways To Fix The World
The majority of millennials think they're innovative people. They want to work at--and give their money to--innovative companies that are good for society.
In spite of all the economic, societal, and environmental obstacles thrown their way, millennials the world over still believe that things can change--and that business in particular can move the world into a better place.
Extremely Useful! Maps Show Best Coffee Shops By Subway Stops
Coffee lovers rejoice: these maps rename subway stops in New York and London with the best coffee shops nearby. Never be tired again!
There's a Starbucks on practically every corner of New York City and London, but if you're sick of recharging your batteries with corporately branded caffeine, two extremely helpful new maps reveal the best coffee shops near every Manhattan subway and London Tube stops.
Can This Clever Statistical Model Predict Olympic Medal Winners?
Interactive: Two brothers' quest to Nate Silver the Sochi Winter Olympics
How many medals will the U.S. walk away with at this year's Winter Olympics? What about perennial runner-up China? Two brothers, Dan and Tim Graettinger, think they have the answers, and you'll be surprised to hear how they got them.
February 6, 2014
This Chair Is Supposed To Look Like A Fat Person's Flesh
Why?
Augh! Sometimes I really wish designers would stop showing so much skin. Last week, it was human flesh typography. This week it's human flesh furniture, a student project called, appropriately, the Flesh Chair.
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