Bizarre and hysterical ad for a real technical school in Australia
via Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5885979/best-technical-college-ad-ever
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Very cool idea for repurposing a bit of archaic hardware.
Very cool idea for repurposing a bit of archaic hardware.
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An architect in New York city is repuporsing phone booths into mini-libraries/book-drop-offs.
Makes perfect sense.
Repurposing antiquated equipment by letting it house other soon to be antiquated equipment. In 6 months, I imagine they'll put CD players in there too.
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repurposed phone booth library in NYC
part of his 'department of urban betterment' interventionist project, john locke transforms streetside phone booths into community libraries.
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According to Rick Santorum, the only reason to require insurance companies to provide… 2
According to Rick Santorum, the only reason to require insurance companies to provide pregnant women with free prenatal care is too encourage more abortions.
"One of the things that you don't know about ObamaCare in one of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing," Santorum began telling about 400 people here. "Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That too is part of ObamaCare — another hidden message as to what president Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country."
The more words we hear from Mr Santorum, the scarier he gets, especially for women.
#politics #culturewar #indecision2012
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Santorum says Obama looks down on disabled, encouraging more abortions
Rick Santorum accused President Obama of requiring free prenatal testing in the health care plan he signed in 2010 because it would detect if children were disabled, encourage more abortions and save…
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A year ago this week, the third to last Space Shuttle mission, STS-133 finally launched… 1
A year ago this week, the third to last Space Shuttle mission, STS-133 finally launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a delay of almost 4 months to address technical issues.
On board the shuttle was a crate containing a Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot co-developed by +NASA and engineers from +General Motors. What makes R2 different from other robots like Honda's Asimo is that it was designed to do actual work alongside humans both on the International Space Station and eventually in factories here on earth.
That means it is a lot stronger than Asimo which can do some fancy dance moves, but can't lift much weight.
In October 2010 when I was working on product and technology communications for GM, I went down to Florida to support some media events in conjunction with the original planned launch date. The second R2 prototype was being used to demonstrate the robot's capabilities. You can see most of the demo in this video with NASA engineer Nicholas Radford.
A few days ago, the crew on board the ISS finally powered up R2 and began the testing of its control systems in micro-gravity. http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/16/2802290/nasa-robonaut-human-robot-handshake-iss
#robonaut2 #r2 #iss #nasa #generalmotors #gm
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Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation, lead to governmental crises and deadlocks and stymie the compromises so often necessary to preserve the freedom and achieve progress.
Remarkably it describes the position our politics are in today to a T, thanks in large part to the continuing shift to the right of the Republican party over the past two decades. The quote can be found in a new biography of Mitt Romney http://amzn.to/wWO1Ux but it wasn't uttered by the man currently running for the GOP nomination.
In fact, those are the words of his father George Romney when in 1964 as governor of Michigan, he declined to endorse or campaign for his party's nominee Barry Goldwater. George Romney clearly a man who would not find a place in the 2012 GOP.
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Amazon.com: The Real Romney (9780062123275): Michael Kranish, Scott Helman: Books
Amazon.com: The Real Romney (9780062123275): Michael Kranish, Scott Helman: Books
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