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5 amazing spaces with surprising ways to stay cool
22 Jun
Going to an outdoor event during the steamy months of summer generally involves packing a miniature fan and slathering yourself in sunscreen, as most venues do little to shade attendees in the cheap seats. This is something Wolfgang Kessling, of the German climate engineering firm Transsolar, would like to change. In a talk at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Kessling describes the challenge of designing an open-air stadium in Qatar…
Europe can't escape 'Lehman moment': Niall Ferguson
22 Jun
Reblogged from Financial Post | Business:
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL--Last week, Harvard professor Niall Ferguson argued that volatility induced by the Greek elections could cause a "Lehman moment" in Europe, a wave of bank runs that could lead to either the collapse or resurrection of the European Monetary Union.
While the events of this weekend do not seem to have caused this to happen, Feruguson still believes that the climax of pressures on Europe is yet to come.
Reading While Eating for June 22: Mad Men and Ryan Gosling
22 Jun
McChic: McDonald's has hired a designer to create Mad Men-era uniforms for its UK employees for the 2012 Olympics. Next: "Do you want a martini with that?" (The Daily Meal)
A nut in The Nutmeg State: A Twitter account makes fun of people from Connecticut. (BuzzFeed)
Spin of the day: A Conservative group called Right Change parodies the Dos Equis' …
CEO Supper Club: The Point of the Evening When We All Lose Our Minds
22 Jun
And now we come to the end of our CEO dinner, when the wine kicks in, and I lose complete control of the interview.
We start by asking everyone for their mediocre super powers...and.... I'll just let you watch the rest.
Here are our previous segments on Phablets, consolidation, fundraising, whether software companies still need salesforces, what companies…
Snooty British Kids Don't Care That Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web
22 Jun
Given that coding lessons are the new Baby Mozart, we are in no way surprised at the existence of Code Club, the latest educational initiative launched across the pond. We are, however, quite amused at this promotional video, in which a sassy panel of children considers the Internet's biggest names for open advisory positions. Most do not meet their exacting standards.
Facebook, 1997 called and they want their photo uploading tech back
22 Jun
Photos are a massive part of the Facebook experience. Every day, users upload 250 million photos to Facebook. And photo status updates typically get far more engagement than any other type of post.
So why does the Facebook photo posting experience suck so much?
I compared posting a photo on Facebook to posting a photo on Google+ just this morning. The difference is frankly startling.
Meet The Nuud: LifeProof's New Waterproof Ultra-Rugged iPad Case
22 Jun
LifeProof has made a name for itself as a maker of super rugged iPhone cases that you can take in the ocean, to the beach, or even to the top of Mt. Everest. This thing can survive in some surprising environments. But today, the company has finally answered the call for a LifeProof iPad case, the Nuud. The case vacuums against the glass panel on the iPad so that there's no front screen protector, allowing for the same tactile interaction we've all grown so fond of on Apple' tablet.
Friday Flicks: What Says Summer More than a Movie Called 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'?
22 Jun
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Tagline: President by day. Hunter by night.
Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the history-horror mashup novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, gets to adapt his own book for the screen (ka-ching!) in a film that purports to delve into the legendary American president's secret journals. What do we learn? Only that "Honest Abe" had a double life as history's greatest ever hunter of the undead.
The Power Struggle of the Divided Brain: Extract from 'The Master and His Emissary' by Iain McGilchrist
22 Jun
Reblogged from Yale Books Blog: Yale University Press London:
Originally published in 2009 Iain McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary explores the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history and culture. The book, which has been an enormous critical success and has sold widely across the world, is now available in a beautiful new paperback format. In this extract, McGilchrist sets out his pioneering argument.
Why everybody is freaking out about India
22 Jun Reblogged from Financial Post | Business:
India's GDP slowed to 5.3 percent in the January to March quarter. Since then S&P has warned that the country could lose its investment grade, and Fitch revised India's outlook to 'negative'.
Sentiment has turned against India not just on a slew of weak economic data, but also the country's political unwillingness to implement reforms, and on allegations of corruption.
Apple lovers kick Microsoft's Surface while it's down
22 Jun
Reblogged from Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine:
One minute and 18 seconds of awkwardness draws millions of viewers on YouTube
http://youtu.be/N1zxDa3t0fg
FORTUNE: The low point of Microsoft's (MSFT) Surface unveiling Monday came when a prototype tablet crashed in the middle of the keynote. It was bad enough when Steven Sinofsky's embarrassment was couched in nearly 50 minutes of films, presentations and demos that worked. But isolated into a…
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