December 2010
9 posts
Gauging Bill Gates’s Health Grants Five Years In -... →
poptech:
Five years ago, Bill Gates made an extraordinary offer: he invited the world’s scientists to submit ideas for tackling the biggest problems in global health, including the lack of vaccines for AIDS and malaria, the fact that most vaccines must be kept refrigerated and be delivered by needles, the fact that many tropical crops like cassavas and bananas had little nutrition, and so...
It's Full of Stars: Brazil to Help African, Asian... →
itsfullofstars:
Brazil will provide technical assistance to help tropical countries improve their forest monitoring capabilities, according to an official with the South American country’s satellite agency.
Carlos Nobre, head of the Earth System Science Center at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE),…
Eternal September →
readmorewikipedia:
Eternal September is a Usenet slang expression, coined by Dave Fischer, for the period beginning September 1993.
The expression encapsulates the belief that an endless influx of new users (newbies) since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet.
New TSA Report: Every Test Gun, Bomb Part Or Knife... →
techspotlight:
While the TSA is still fighting as hard as possible to be able to either see you naked or touch your private parts, apparently it hasn’t spent that much time actually figuring out how to look for people carrying weapons onto planes. A few folks have sent in this ABC story about a man who boarded a plane with a loaded handgun that had been in his carry-on bag. The guy noted that he...
crooked indifference: Today in Amazing: Spacelog →
markcoatney:
Spacelog
This is fascinating. Original NASA transcripts from early space exploration. The transcript formatting reads like blog comments or a Twitter conversation. Every comment has a permanent URI — here’s the original “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Additional…
The War on Cameras →
Police across the country are using decades-old wiretapping statutes that did not anticipate iPhones or Droids, combined with broadly written laws against obstructing or interfering with law enforcement, to arrest people who point microphones or video cameras at them. Even in the wake of gross injustices, state legislatures have largely neglected the issue. Meanwhile, technology is enabling the...
