A 250-acre compound with hunting and sporting amenities that would make a "Career Tribute" proud.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 20:15

A new paper is out saying that the Medieval Warm Period and the subsequent Little Ice Age extended to the Antarctic Peninsular. Most interesting for of course we?re seeing effects of the current warming there too. Leaving aside the boring details of what they actually did we get this: This ikaite record qualitatively supports that ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 19:26

The Federal Trade Commission wants Congress to pass a law that would give Americans the right to access the information that data brokers hold on them, similar to the right they have to a copy of their credit reports under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 22:56

Punctuality is one of the least talked about victims of our instantly connected world. The death of proper grammar has been bemoaned for years as the shorthand of tweens texting has now moved onto Twitter. The decline of face to face conversation have been documented and mourned as people now prefer to sit at a ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 15:28

A whole slew of interesting links from around the Web.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 14:23

Without drastic inflation, the Fed Reserve will likely stay the course it had laid out and keep interest rates at rock-bottom lows.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 13:32

SXSW was a fantastic event, spent in the company of many like-minded individuals who are out to change the world through technology, film and music. It also had a lot of people that were after the free food and drinks. Google, Skype, Yahoo!, and other tech giants rented out bars, clubs and restaurants for major ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 22:04

???????????????'Big Data' is having its 15-minutes of fame. It is the hot term referring to the increasingly large datasets of information being amassed as a result of our social, mobile, and digital world. In the past 12-months, the use of the term in the U.S. has increased 1,211% on the internet. Lack of data is ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:42

Slightly embarrassingly for both Mike Daisey and This American Life the version of Daisey?s monologue about conditions in Chinese factories has been withdrawn. Some of the details he claims to have witnessed turned out to be things that he had not in fact witnessed. You can see the full statement from This American Life here. ...

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 12:23

Is the tech industry inherently sexist or this a Silicon-Valley disease?

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 20:26