If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know?
Posted 10 months ago by dgrobinson.It’s the sort of Beltway dodge that’s as natural as breathing to the suits in this white-tablecloth restaurant. But despite the agency badge tucked into his jacket, the tattooed, shaggy-haired, cowboy-boot-wearing scholar is not quite a member of their tribe. With a little prodding and one big caveat—”I don’t represent the FTC in anything I say”—he looks up from his fish stew and deadpans a quietly barbed critique that is vintage Wu.—Tim Wu Tries to Save the Internet - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted 10 months ago by dgrobinson.
… occupancy rates at Ritz-Carlton Tokyo had plunged from 80 to 15 percent since the Japan nuclear crisis …—World’s highest hotel opens in Hong Kong Posted 10 months ago by dgrobinson.
While there are undoubtedly some kinds of stories a publication can only get by putting a reporter on a plane or staffing a foreign bureau, the Internet has dramatically reduced the universe of stories for which that is true.—Shoe-Leather Reporting at the New York Times | Bottom-up Posted 10 months ago by dgrobinson.
“One idea that’s gotten increasing attention lately is geoengineering, a grab-bag of technologies that include doping the ocean with iron to fertilize carbon-eating algae. Most geoengineering schemes, however, involve cooling the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space. There are lots of ways to do it, ranging from the low-tech (painting everyone’s roof white) to high tech (lofting outward-facing mirrors into space).” — Michael Lemonick, via A Small Step Forward for Geoengineering : Blog : Climate Central
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(via Anatomy of a cupcake in Material and objects related with the cupcakes and muffins)
Posted 10 months ago by dgrobinson.London Hire Bikes animation (by Sociable Physics) This animation shows the real-time behaviour of hire bikes in London on October 4th 2010, the day of a major tube strike, and the busiest day for the scheme to date.
Posted 10 months ago by dgrobinson.Turns out, despite the great push for citizen journalism, citizens are not, on average, great at “journalism.” But they are excellent conduits for raw material — those documents, videos, or photos. They record events digitally as an eyewitness, obtain documents through Freedom of Information requests, or have access to files through the work they do. We are seeing an important element of accountability journalism emerge.—Jennifer 8. Lee on raw data, APIs, and the growth of “Little Brother” » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism Posted 10 months ago by dgrobinson.
Fascinating
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