PopTech

The brilliant Reggie Watts, frequent PopTech performer,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:11:45 -0400

The brilliant Reggie Watts, frequent PopTech performer, channelling Rick Astley. Sort of.

thegreenurbanist: davewellbeloved: Now this is a good idea....

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:01:06 -0400

davewellbeloved:

Now this is a good idea. Love one of these near my house

(via London Cycling Campaign)

Would love one of these for my office.

As we say in Maine, that’s wicked smaht.

It’s getting kind of crowded on Mount Everest.

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:44:19 -0400

It’s getting kind of crowded on Mount Everest.

laughingsquid: Teenage Girl Nonchalantly Plays Van Halen’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:11:16 -0400

laughingsquid:

Teenage Girl Nonchalantly Plays Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ Guitar Solo

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

climateadaptation: kqedscience: Astronauts Snag Dramatic...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:02:40 -0400

climateadaptation:

kqedscience:

Astronauts Snag Dramatic Photographs of Alaska’s Erupting Volcano

“Astronauts living on board the International Space Station managed to get these dramatic pictures of the Pavlof Volcano as it erupted over the weekend. The volcano began acting up last Monday, the 13th, its first eruption since 2007.”

See more images at The Atlantic.

Definitely click through!

nevver: Before and after

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:42:41 -0400

nevver:

Before and after

Fast Company has a spread on a cool “zero-energy”...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:10 -0400

Fast Company has a spread on a cool “zero-energy” house.

"I can tell you, at this time in my life, I had 7,747 kids that I was responsible for, and I could..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:29:00 -0400

“I can tell you, at this time in my life, I had 7,747 kids that I was responsible for, and I could only account for my two children.”

- C.J. Huff, the superintendent of Joplin, Mo. schools, from his striking PopTech talk about resilience in the wake of a killer tornado.

Eery, creepy timelapse vid of the Oklahoma tornado…

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:09:18 -0400

Eery, creepy timelapse vid of the Oklahoma tornado…

There is a space plane in there.

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:00 -0400

There is a space plane in there.

"Mr. Obama has a firm grasp of the climate issue, and no one doubts that he cares about it. But as is..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:20:34 -0400

“Mr. Obama has a firm grasp of the climate issue, and no one doubts that he cares about it. But as is often the case with this president, the question is whether he will exhibit a sense of urgency to match his intellectual understanding.”

- New York Times editorial board.

This crazy-looking thing is a new kind of wind turbine —which...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:01:00 -0400

This crazy-looking thing is a new kind of wind turbine —which happens to produce 600 percent more power than a conventional windmill.

That is mycelium under a microscope. Mushrooms. And it is the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:57:34 -0400

That is mycelium under a microscope. Mushrooms. And it is the new insulation that can grow inside your walls. It’s airtight. It’s strong. It’s fireproof. And it ain’t plastic.

"In the most comprehensive survey of its kind to date, a team of two dozen volunteers from the..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:43:44 -0400

“In the most comprehensive survey of its kind to date, a team of two dozen volunteers from the climate science website Skeptical Science has found a 97 per cent consensus in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that humans are causing global warming.”

- An Australian Broadcasting Corporation piece on how the science is, in fact, “settled” on whether humans are causing climate change.

Yikes. This from the New York Times on the impact of mass...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:02:32 -0400

Yikes. This from the New York Times on the impact of mass incarceration of African American men on voter turnout.

Moran Cerf was a hacker. Then he was a bank robber. Now he is a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:29:16 -0400

Moran Cerf was a hacker. Then he was a bank robber. Now he is a neuroscientist, and through implanted electrodes his patients can manipulate digital images using their brains. It’s all in his just-released 2012 PopTech talk.

"Welcome back to What’s Hot and New with the Kidz, a recurring feature brought to you by the..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:33:17 -0400

“Welcome back to What’s Hot and New with the Kidz, a recurring feature brought to you by the New York Times, a Montessori-school newsletter devoted to understanding the hot and new mindset of contemporary Kidz.”

- Gawker’s Leah Beckmann exquisitely skewering the Times’ smells-like-my-grandma’s-house coverage of driving trends among young people.

treehugger: “This building puts 4,450 households on two acres...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:40:51 -0400

treehugger:

“This building puts 4,450 households on two acres and it is actually designed with energy conservation in mind. By going huge they are getting tremendous manufacturing efficiencies; by going vertical they get the kind of repetition that makes it affordable. By going half a mile high and 220 stories they are going to get noticed.”

That is Lloyd Alter describing the sustainable case for what will be the world’s tallest building. See more pictures and a video here: One Building, One City: World’s tallest prefab, Sky City, is breaking ground in June

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Tue, 14 May 2013 10:57:31 -0400

Don’t throw away that styrofoam cup. Look what this guy...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:37:00 -0400

Don’t throw away that styrofoam cup. Look what this guy can do to one.