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Tom Woodward

3D Printers Create Fancy Future Crackers That Sprout Into A Mini Salad - 0 views

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    "Food Designer Chloé Rutzerveld believes 3D printing will revolutionize the food industry, and she is getting the ball rolling by developing a 3D printed cracker that consists of living organisms such as seeds, spores, and yeast. In three to four days, the seeds and spores sprout into a miniature salad that is said to be completely natural and healthy, demonstrating the potential the technology has to "make the [food] production chain very short," with less transportation and land requirements. "
Yin Wah Kreher

Survey reveals 40% of students go without food because of money concerns - Finances - S... - 0 views

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    "As many as 40 per cent of students have gone without food because they are concerned about their finances, a stark new survey has revealed." Had heard stories about VCU UGs starving & in need of food, now even in the UK. What can we do?
Tom Woodward

"Sharks create oxygen": A scientific perspective | Southern Fried Science - 0 views

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    "The premise of the sharks and oxygen claim is as follows: A) Sharks, many of which are apex predators, are important in regulating marine food webs; B) Phytoplankton, which create oxygen through photosynthesis, are in marine food webs; C) Therefore, without sharks, phytoplankton populations will crash and we won't have any more oxygen and we'll all die. "
anonymous

Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet - The Atlantic - 1 views

  • 85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
  • The developers who wrote Drupal and Wordpress, two important pieces of blogging software, both recently expressed anxiety over the open web’s future. Since so many of these social networks are operated by algorithms, whose machinations are proprietary knowledge, they worry that people are losing any control over what they see when they log on. The once-polyphonic blogosphere, they say, will turn into the web of mass-manufactured schlock.
  • For all the talk of their radical openness, blogs had mostly been the domain of those with hosting space, programming experience, and the time to write them
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  • If your job was to feed people, but you were only measured by the efficiency of calories delivered, you may learn over time that high-calorie, high-processed foods were the most efficient ways to deliver calories,” he says. They would be the most margin-friendly way to deliver calories. But the food still wouldn’t be good—because the original metric didn’t take into account “sustainability, or health, or nourishment, or happiness of the people.”
  • Google and Facebook, just two companies, send more than 80 percent of all traffic to news sites. (No wonder they make 85 cents of every digital-ad dollar.
Tom Woodward

Major Gaps Between the Public, Scientists on Key Issues | Pew Research Center - 1 views

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    "Despite broadly similar views about the overall place of science in America, there are striking differences between the views of the public and those of the scientific community connected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on a host of science-related issues, from whether genetically modified foods are safe to eat to whether the world's growing population will be a major problem. See how their views differ by clicking on the topics below. "
Tom Woodward

Information is Beautiful Awards - 1 views

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    Interesting to see different approaches to the same data and how people build compelling and understandable data visualizations.
Yin Wah Kreher

Harvard & MIT Sued for Lack of Online Video Captioning - 1 views

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    the NAD laments that much of the universities' online media is published on platforms like YouTube, whose auto-captioning function is woefully insufficient for the hard of hearing. Food for thought.
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