This week on the podcast, Kyle and I got together to talk with our friend Dave about issues surrounding NASA and the aerospace industry as a new presidential administration is preparing to take office, and our country’s financial future is as uncertain as ever. Some notes for this week’s show: NASA’s Black Hole Budgets, from […]
The Christian Science Monitor has a story today about the village of Kamikatsu, Japan, where they have done away with public trash bins, landfills, and they recycle 80% of their trash. They have a goal of 100% recycling by 2020.
Craig Ewert committed suicide on TV in Britain. Will our appetite for “reality” television EVER be satisfied? How far is too far? Remember when Fox was just weeks from airing a show with O.J. Simpson about how “[he] would’ve done it”? Is the escapism of television no longer about fantasy, and now just about how […]
via Lifehacker — Google is giving away a set of stickers you can add to your keyboard to get acqainted with the Gmail keyboard shortcuts.
Really bizarre piece (if you ask me) that I grabbed from New Scientist
Check out this story from the Christian Science Monitor that contrasts the issues facing the “Big Three” US automakers with the smaller (yet thriving) foreign-owned “import” plants in the South. No doubt the cost of the workforce has been and continues to be a major financial issue for the US companies, and it will be […]