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The Botany of Empire and Emoji

November 13, 2013

1. Mapping New York's languages, we see more Portuguese than one would expect. "We have visualised the geography of about 8.5 million geo-located tweets...

5 Intriguing Things

November 12, 2013

Make my day (InMoov). 1. Meet InMoov, an open-source 3D printed life-size humanoid robot project. Some assembly required. "This is going to be interesting....

5 Intriguing Things

November 11, 2013

1. A fun, beautiful timelapse of Hong Kong's (insanely long) outdoor escalator system. Read about it here. 2. These analysts say the "facial recognition...

5 Intriguing Things

November 8, 2013

1. The last page of Randi Zuckerberg's book.2. The sonic war on birds and other crop stealers."A Bird Gard can also play species-specific distress calls. Got...

IPOs and Meerkat Wrestling

November 7, 2013

1. There have been 120 IPOs in 2013. The average one has gone up 21.8 percent. In 1999-2000, the average newly listed company popped 64.4 percent. 2. Listen...

They Cloned John Muir's Sequoia (And 4 Other Intriguing Things)

November 6, 2013

1. Analyst Benedict Evans lays out the 73-slide case for the end of the Internet, media, and technology industries as we've known them. "Mobile is eating the...

5 Intriguing Things Like a Dog in an MRI Machine

November 5, 2013

1. People are putting dogs in MRI machines to determine if they love us like we love them. But will they love robots, too? "But [Emory University's Gregory]...