Oct 29 #sandy Here's what our satellite captured at ~ 7:30pm EDT on Oct. 29, 2012: #Sandy made #landfall NE of #AtlanticCity #NJ pic.twitter.com/XZRJk6f02O— NOAA (@NOAA) October 29, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 29 Data shows self-driving Google cars safer than its human-operated counterpart Photo by Flickr User Stanford Center for Internet and Society Google's autonomous-car project collected data from self-driving Prius and Lexus cars over hundreds of thousands of miles on public roads, which they say reveals the self-driving… Continue reading
Oct 29 Man's forgotten $27 Bitcoin investment yields $886,000 Photo by Flickr user btckeychain It's not every day that an investment increases more than 3 million percent in just four years. That's what happened to Kristoffer Koch of Norway, who, after discovering the digital currency… Continue reading
Oct 29 #insidenewshour By News Desk tnx to @ColbertReport for their continued support of @Newshour by using us the fact people so often http://t.co/ZxccSJS9kp — hari sreenivasan (@hari) October 29, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 29 #Iran Iran-UN nuclear talks gain traction while both sides agree to hold next round in Tehran on Nov. 11: http://t.co/qR6G6dv1EN -MM— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 29 Teen girls who share their melancholia online reshaping what it means to be depressed Photo by Flickr user Darcyadelaide Among the more than 140 million blogs on Tumblr, young girls are trending tags like "self-harm," "depression" and "sadness." In a feature article in The Atlantic, girls in… Continue reading
Oct 29 Russia breaks its 'Zero Waste' commitment for Sochi games Fans of the Winter Games will begin filling the "Iceberg" Skating Palace in Sochi in just a few months. Photo by RIA Novosti via Wikimedia Commons Less than four months before the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Associated… Continue reading
Oct 29 Key lawmaker: Don't scrap NSA phone surveillance .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }… Continue reading
Oct 29 Second group of Palestinian prisoners to be released from Israeli jails Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners were transferred to Ofer Prison near Jerusalem Monday, to be processed for release Tuesday evening. Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Magister Late Tuesday night, 26 Palestinian prisoners will be free to return to their… Continue reading
Oct 29 The sand engine that's powering coastal conservation in the Netherlands As beaches around the world rapidly erode, Marcel Stive of the Delft University of Technology says we need to nourish the coasts by pumping sand directly onto the beach. The hope is natural currents will stretch the sand along… Continue reading