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Here is that piano made of bananas you asked for

7 Jun

Reblogged from Grist:

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I'm not going to make a joke about "playing with your food." I think we're all above that. But you should all know that some MIT students have developed a bit of tech that will allow you to make your excess produce into a musical instrument.

Actually, the MaKey MaKey is even cooler than that -- I just wanted to pick an application that's relevant to Grist, and I figured, food, right?

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Shell Hosting Arctic Oil Rig Launch Party

7 Jun

Not everything goes as planned at Shell’s launch party in the Seattle Space Needle.

North Korea’s class warfare: Social rhetoric, caste-system a reality under Kim dynasty

7 Jun

Reblogged from National Post | News:

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In the supposed workers’ paradise of North Korea, inequality is assigned at birth, a study by a U.S.-based human rights group says.

Education, jobs, access to scarce food and health care, and even whom you marry all hinge on how loyal your forebears are viewed to have been to the Kim dynasty that took power six decades ago.

The study released Wednesday by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea says all adults in the socialist state are categorized as one of three classes: loyal, wavering or hostile.

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Seoul Launches Suicide Watchdog

7 Jun

Reblogged from NewsFeed:

South Korea has by some measurements the highest suicide rate among industrialized nations. According to the latest data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD), 28 out of 100,000 Koreans took their own lives in 2009 -- nearly triple the rate in the U.S. On any given day in Korea, an average of 40 people kill themselves.

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