Recent Finds

Interesting things I've read recently...

1. A 15-Year-Old Built a $12 Electric Generator to Power Remote Homes Using Ocean Currents (dailygalaxy.com) - She got the idea from the waves under her boat and thought of her Ethiopian pen pal who doesn't have access to reliable energy. She protoptyped it, entered it in a contest, won a bunch of money (which she's sharing with her pen pal and her pen pal's school) and as part of the contest, is now working with 3M to try to bring the idea to market.
    
2. ‘Robots don’t bleed’: Ukraine sends machines into the battlefield in place of human soldiers (cnn.com) - A look at how Ukraine is using robots in place of soldiers in battle. This is the early days of those Terminator documentaries, right?
    
3. Daring and Dazzling, a New LACMA Floats Above Los Angeles (nytimes.com) - It's had its detractors, but the new LACMA gallery sounds pretty cool. 
    
4. The avionics suite designed to let anyone fly a plane (newatlas.com) - Airhart Aeronautics is trying to build an interface/dashboard for airplanes that make them much more straightforward, with the idea that flying should be something anyone can pick up.
    
5. AI is eliminating one of the biggest bottlenecks of car design (fastcompany.com) - Computers replaced models and wind-tunnels, but the processing still takes a lot of time. AI is speeding that way up.
    
6. Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface (thebrighterside.news) 
    
7. How Airports Are Preparing for Advanced Air Mobility (flyingmag.com)
    
8. A Middle School Student Built a Sidewalk Material That Absorbs Rainwater Instead of Flooding Streets, Using Materials Most People Throw Away (dailygalaxy.com) - apparently quite an improvement on current "porous concrete" - could change the way storm water systems are integrated into roadways
    
9. Scientists discover a universal law across every form of life on Earth, severely challenging evolution theory (earth.com) - 30,000 measurements across 2,700 species (humans, animals, plants, microbes) determined that all have a pretty consistent point where their efficacy drops off dramatically. (This has implications for the rising heat on this planet.)
   

Feed Sift (02/09/2017)

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JUSTINOBEIRNE.COM -- GOOGLE MAPS’S MOAT: How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- See Why ‘Stutterer’ Won the Academy Award for Best Short Film of 2015

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THEATLANTIC.COM -- Everybody Should Be Very Afraid of the Disney Death Star

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- How to Handle a Request to 'Pick Your Brain'

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WIRED.COM -- VIRGINIA'S $40 TOLL ROAD BETTER BE THE FUTURE OF DRIVING

Feed Sift (02/02/2017)

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WIRED.COM -- THE OTHER TECH BUBBLE

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- How Machines Actually ‘Learn’

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ARCHITECTURALDIGEST.COM -- Is Your Home Guilty of These 10 Super Common Facade Fails?

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- These Guys Just Jumped Off a Mountain and Into a Moving Plane

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THEDODO.COM -- Civets Spend Their Lives In Cages So This Expensive Coffee Can Be Made

Feed Sift (01/26/2017)

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ROLLINGSTONE.COM -- Seahawks So Woke

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ENGADGET.COM -- California is set to hit its green-energy goals a decade early

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THESOURCE.METRO.NET -- Maintenance Diaries: meet Sergio Perez, wheelchair ramp mechanic out of Division 9

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- These Guys Pushed a Thomas the Tank Engine Train Set to the Limits

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- Why It Feels So Good to Cancel Plans Last Minute, and How to Stop

Feed Sift (01/19/2017)

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MYONLINETRAININGHUB.COM -- Excel Chart Formatting Tips

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- How to Brainstorm Effectively

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UNCLUTTERER.COM -- Sunk costs and discontinuing things you’re doing

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- Amazing Things Happen at the Grand Canyon and this Timelapse Captures Them Beautifully

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TWOCENTS.LIFEHACKER.COM -- Here's How Donald Trump Is Shrinking Your Paycheck

Feed Sift (01/12/2017)

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TWOCENTS.LIFEHACKER.COM -- Use Chargebacks Like an Insurance Policy for Internet Shopping

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UNCLUTTERER.COM -- How best to be sick: stop worrying about being productive

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NBCNEWS.COM -- The do's and don'ts of cheat meals, according to nutrition experts

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LINKEDIN.COM -- 4 Things Outstanding Bosses Say to a New Employee (That Most Bosses Never Think to Say)

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MEDIUM.LEARNINGBYSHIPPING.COM -- Frictionless Design Choices

Feed Sift (01/05/2017)

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UNCLUTTERER.COM -- Four ideas for creating New Year's resolutions

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- Here's What Would Make Going to the Movies Worth the Money

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SETHGODIN.TYPEPAD.COM -- Reading at work

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- This Might Be the Best Lightning Storm Timelapse I’ve Ever Seen

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- How You Can Study Snowflakes

Feed Sift (09/25/2015)

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ENGADGET.COM -- Floating plasma display

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WIRED.COM -- It's Official: Everyone Has the Same Plan for Tech's Future

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HUFFINGTONPOST.COM -- Boy Who Couldn’t Afford Books Asks Mailman For Junk Mail To Read

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- How to Use Simple Checklists to Boost Efficiency and Reduce Mistakes

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- 32 Maps That Will Teach You Something New About the World

Feed Sift (09/18/2015)

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ENGADGET.COM -- Ford gets serious with self-driving and 3D printing tech

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- How Pixar Artists Made the Cars in ‘Cars’ Do Things Without Hands

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WORKSHOP.LIFEHACKER.COM -- What to Avoid When Picking Lumber for Your Woodworking Project

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WAITBUTWHY.COM -- How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars

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SIMPLE.COM -- Project Days at Simple Bank

Feed Sift (09/11/2015)

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ENGADGET.COM -- Giant American robot wants to lay the smackdown on Japanese rival

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YOUTUBE.COM -- Pico Quadrotors on The Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- The Google Team that Wants to Make Your Hand a Self-Contained Interface Control Using Radar

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TINYHOUSETALK.COM -- 960 Sq. Ft. Floating Cottage in Portage Bay

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- Save Money on Road Trips with a Portable Kitchen Kit

Feed Sift (09/04/2015)

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ATLASOBSCURA.COM -- This Mystery Photo Haunting Reddit Appears to be Image Recognition Gone Very Weird

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BASICINSTRUCTIONS.NET -- How to Express Admiration

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ENGADGET.COM -- Microsoft is getting pretty good at digitizing reality

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CRINGELY.COM -- The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing it and why

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- Baby Weasels Following Mom

Happy Friday!!!

Feed Sift (08/21/2015)

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CRINGELY.COM -- Disney’s IT troubles go beyond H-IBs

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- The Giant Waterpark Inside an Old German Airship Hangar

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SETHGODIN.TYPEPAD.COM -- Blah, blah, blah

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- Top 10 Unusual Ways to Make Your To-Do List Actually Doable

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ENGADGET.COM -- Artificial intelligence learns Mario level in just 34 attempts

Feed Sift (08/14/2015)

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WIRED.COM -- Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

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CRINGELY.COM -- Autodesk’s John Walker explained HP and IBM in 1991

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EXCELJET.NET -- Cool things you can do with conditional formatting

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BLOG.LEARNINGBYSHIPPING.COM -- Privacy and Security: Less Rhetoric and More Product

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QUICKANDDIRTYTIPS.COM -- How to Use the 5 Apology Languages

Feed Sift (08/07/2015)

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WAITBUTWHY.COM -- Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man

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ENGADGET.COM -- The first self-driving big rig licensed to operate in the US

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HOUZZ.COM -- 10 Creative Ways to Bring Structure to Your Outdoor Room

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KPCB.COM -- Internet Trends 2015 **A MUST READ**

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ESPN.GO.COM -- The Whole Game is Beast Mode

Feed Sift (07/31/2015)

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ENGADGET.COM -- The US wants cars to 'talk' to each other, sooner rather than later

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SETHGODIN.TYPEPAD.COM -- How to go faster

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- A Film Editor’s Take on the Rube Goldberg Machine

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ARCHITECTURALDIGEST.COM -- Rooftops and Terraces (Slideshow)

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MORNINGDEVOTION.OASISMEDIASERVICES.COM -- Giving life

Feed Sift (07/24/2015)

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SETHGODIN.TYPEPAD.COM -- Why do you do it this way?

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ENGADGET.COM -- Google researchers create amazing timelapses from public photos

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- Recycled Animation Sequences from Famous Disney Films

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ARCHITECTURALDIGEST.COM -- Best Hotel Pools (Slideshow)

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COOLORS.CO -- Create Awesome Color Palettes

Feed Sift (07/17/2015)

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- 98 Unprocessed Foods Cut Into Perfect Cubes

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SETHGODIN.TYPEPAD.COM -- Capitalism vs. lock in

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ARCHITECTURALDIGEST.COM -- The Most Colorful Buildings (Slideshow)

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PINTEREST.COM -- Backyard Entertaining and Design

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WEBURBANIST.COM -- Retrofuturistic Urbanism: 6 Cities as they Could Have Become

Feed Sift (07/10/2015)

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ARCHITECTURALDIGEST.COM -- New Volume Showcases Delightful Parisian Landscapes

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- 16 Breathtaking Underwater Animal Photos

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GOOGLEBLOG.BLOGSPOT.COM -- Green lights for our self-driving vehicle prototypes

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ENGADGET.COM -- The first solar bike path is producing more energy than expected

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BLOG.LEARNINGBYSHIPPING.COM -- Africa’s Mobile-Sun Revolution

Feed Sift (07/03/2015)

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XKCD.COM -- Microdrones

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- The Model Model Model Model Village

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ENGADGET.COM -- FTC airs support for Tesla's direct-to-consumer sales

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- Learn SQL with Khan Academy's New Interactive Course

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WEBURBANIST.COM -- The Void: World’s First Virtual Reality Theme Park Coming Soon

Feed Sift (06/26/2015)

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ENGADGET.COM -- Anti-graffiti device nabs taggers by sniffing their fumes

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CHANGE.ORG -- Update: Kraft is removing artificial food dyes in all Macaroni & Cheese products because of your help!

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HUFFINGTONPOST.COM -- 10 Ways to Salvage a Bad Morning Before Parting Ways

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BASICINSTRUCTIONS.NET -- How to Remain Optimistic

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SETHGODIN.TYPEPAD.COM -- Toasted