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In emergency situations, CPR training can make the difference between life and death. This episode explores the work of Peter Safar, who combined preexisting medical techniques and worked with his colleagues to produce the Stuff of Genius we call CPR.
What if Canada, Mexico and the United States became part of something like the European Union? According to conspiracy theorists, the North American Union is already under construction and the dollar’s decline is no accident. Tune in to learn more.
$250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold – “Sales of one man indie game hit, Minecraft, have surpassed $250,000 per day. According to data provided by developer, Mojang, one copy of the €9.95 ($13) game is currently being purchased every 3 seconds, representing sales of $15,000 per hour…” A Blind User’s Profound Review of the iPhone [...]
Happy Anniversary, Affordable Care Act!
by Molly Edmonds | September 23, 2010
In the United States, the traditional gift for a first wedding anniversary is paper. For the second, cotton is in order, and for the third, leather. What to give on a sixth-month anniversary? Well, to mark the six-month anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, I’m going to highlight some of the women-friendly measures that go into effect today, which, in turn, is the act’s gift to us.
Something that fascinates me about Google is that, once Google becomes sentient, it will know essentially everything. Google spiders the entire world wide web constantly, giving it access to as much knowledge and information as any single entity will ever access….
Women Leadership Preferred in Man-Made Disasters
by Cristen Conger | September 23, 2010
When I saw the Psychology Today headline “When a Crisis Hits, We Prefer Female Leadership“, I immediately thought “at long last, society is finally starting to recognize women’s management capabilities!”. But that gung-ho title could’ve used a clarifying subtitle. The post reports on two studies published by the British Psychological Society about how people respond [...]
Halloween will be here in about a month, so it is time to start thinking about costume ideas if you want to do something interesting. Here are today’s best and worst ideas…
The poor in Oceania get cool, functional design
by Josh Clark | September 23, 2010
If you ever find yourself down and out in East Timor or the Marshall Islands, look for this gigantic structure and you’ll know you’ve found a place with food and water. The people over at DesignAddict posted a cool article about a new communal shelter by Australian designer Esan Rahmani. The structure is made entirely of bamboo, which was a good choice by Rahmani, since it was designed for impoverished groups in the Pacific Rim, where bamboo grows aplenty.
Back when I was a little raver kid in the 1990s, I was really into this UK group called Altern8. Altern8 had this thing where they wore dust masks, and I too wore them, usually with Vick’s VapoRub smeared inside. It was nice. It’s a pretty short leap, you can understand, from dust mask to [...]
Study finds 41 Cases of Imprisonment based on False Confessions
by Josh Clark | September 23, 2010
Steve Ignorant, the frontman for the anarchist punk band Crass counseled in the song “Big A Little A” that when dealing with the authorities, “silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection.” Those wise words are lost on “the mentally impaired, the mentally ill, the young and the easily led,” according to a New York Times article on a recent study out of the University of Virginia School of Law that found at least 41 confessions given by inmates at correctional facilities have been overturned later by DNA evidence.
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