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Friday music blogging: Rye Rye
I love good hip-hop. I love good dance and club music. But as I’ve grown older (I recently turned 1,000), I’ve lost the will needed to wade through all the terrible hip-hop and dance music out there to find the good stuff. I can’t tell if it’s me or the music, but at least from […]
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Republicans prefer naming things after Reagan to signing U.N. ocean treaties
And, really, who can blame them?
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Why is the U.S. government so bullish on coal predictions?
The Department of Energy has a more favorable outlook for coal than virtually any other major forecasting institution.
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These fruit-shaped bus shelters make public transit more delicious
Waiting for a bus is never the most fun part of a commute, but if you lived in Isahaya City, Japan, you could at least pretend you were some kind of magic bus-riding mouse in a fairy tale. Bus shelters in the city are sculpted and painted to look like giant fruit.
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We’re ripping up our mountains to ship coal overseas. Maybe we shouldn’t?
New research demonstrates the scale of American coal exports and the cost we pay. Happily, we're not entirely powerless.
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Watch the moon landing live (with a 43-year delay)
In 2009, Jason Kottke built a site where you could watch the first moon landing as it happened, second by second, just 40 years late. Today, on the 43rd anniversary of the moon landing, you can still watch “live” coverage by Walter Cronkite, unfolding on YouTube just as it would have if you were clustered […]
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New York’s massive new bike-sharing program tripped up by computer problems
Computers don't want bikes to succeed. Computers NEVER want bikes to succeed.
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Book lovers make mini public libraries out of trees
These hollow-log bookshelves were erected in Berlin a few years back to help encourage the reuse of books. The German team behind the project explains: The project adopts the idea of putting up a bookcase in a public space, in which people could release their used books to be picked up by others. This way […]
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You can help make this bike-in movie theater a reality
[protected-iframe id=”56fa6e0fc78268992ddb7ec4c39f24da-5104299-30166106″ info=”http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manifold/bike-in-theater-nyc-sf/widget/video.html” width=”470″ height=”350″ frameborder=”0″] Coworkers Jason Anello and Anna Boyarsky set up a bike-in movie theater in Brooklyn last year, and now they want to do it again — but bigger, better, and bicoastal. They’re raising funds on Kickstarter for permits and licensing, because the show itself won’t make any money: The plan is […]
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Aquifer discovered in arid Namibia could yield 400 years of water — or 15
A fantastic, life-saving discovery in one of the driest countries in the world also bears a large amount of risk.
