June 30, 2008
June 29, 2008
June 27, 2008
Roz Rows The Pacific
http://www.twit.tv/roz
Follow Roz Savage as she attempts to become the first woman to row the Pacific solo.
Follow Roz Savage as she attempts to become the first woman to row the Pacific solo.
$0.99 Movie of the Week on iTunes
http://www.99rental.com/
Every week Apple offers a special 99¢ movie rental on iTunes. 99Rental.com keeps track of the $0.99 iTunes Movie of Week for you.
June 25, 2008
June 24, 2008
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June 20, 2008
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June 16, 2008
Inconspicuous Consumption
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/consumption
The two economists, along with Nikolai Roussanov of the University of
Pennsylvania, have now attacked those questions. What they found not
only provides insight into the economic differences between racial
groups, it challenges common assumptions about luxury. Conspicuous
consumption, this research suggests, is not an unambiguous signal of
personal affluence. It’s a sign of belonging to a relatively poor
group. Visible luxury thus serves less to establish the owner’s
positive status as affluent than to fend off the negative perception
that the owner is poor. The richer a society or peer group, the less
important visible spending becomes.
American Murder Mystery
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime
Falling crime rates have been one of the great American success stories of the past 15 years. New York and Los Angeles, once the twin capitals of violent crime, have calmed down significantly, as have most other big cities. Criminologists still debate why: the crack war petered out, new policing tactics worked, the economy improved for a long spell. Whatever the alchemy, crime in New York, for instance, is now so low that local prison guards are worried about unemployment.
Lately, though, a new and unexpected pattern has emerged, taking criminologists by surprise. While crime rates in large cities stayed flat, homicide rates in many midsize cities (with populations of between 500,000 and 1 million) began increasing, sometimes by as much as 20percent a year. In 2006, the Police Executive Research Forum, a national police group surveying cities from coast to coast, concluded in a report called “A Gathering Storm” that this might represent “the front end … of an epidemic of violence not seen for years.” The leaders of the group, which is made up of police chiefs and sheriffs, theorized about what might be spurring the latest crime wave: the spread of gangs, the masses of offenders coming out of prison, methamphetamines. But mostly they puzzled over the bleak new landscape. According to FBI data, America’s most dangerous spots are now places where Martin Scorsese would never think of staging a shoot-out—Florence, South Carolina; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Reading, Pennsylvania; Orlando, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee.
June 15, 2008
June 13, 2008
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June 8, 2008
Military Supercomputer Sets Record
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.html
The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L, which is based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
June 7, 2008
An Insider's Look in to Prime U
Here is an exclusive insiders look in to Deion Sanders new university - Prime U.
http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d808b4762
http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d808b4762
Finding the Hits, Avoiding the Errors
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/08/travel/20080608_BALLPARK_GRAPHIC.html
A culinary scorecard for all 30 major league baseball stadiums. Read the related article and share your thoughts on the best and worst food you've tasted at a ballpark.
June 6, 2008
Real Thought for Food for Long Workouts
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/health/nutrition/05Best.html
Here is what is known about proteins, carbohydrates and performance.
During exercise, muscles stop the biochemical reactions used to maintain themselves such as replacing and resynthesizing the proteins needed for day to day activities. It’s not that exercise is damaging your muscles; it’s that they halt the maintenance process until exercise is over.
To do this maintenance, muscles must make protein, and to do so they need to absorb amino acids, the constituent parts of proteins, from the blood. Just after exercise, perhaps for a period no longer than a couple of hours, the protein-building processes of muscle cells are especially receptive to amino acids. That means that if you consume protein, your muscles will use it to quickly replenish proteins that were not made during exercise.
But muscles don’t need much protein, researchers say. Twenty grams is as much as a 176-pound man’s muscles can take. Women, who are smaller and have smaller muscles even compared to their body sizes, need less.
10 Deepest Lakes on Earth
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/10-deepest-lakes-on-earth/1234
My favorite is Crater Lake.
My favorite is Crater Lake.
June 5, 2008
June 4, 2008
June 3, 2008
Put a Little Science in Your Life
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01greene.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=0763f2d29058a80b&ei=5087%0A
Brian Greeene on science and living life.
Brian Greeene on science and living life.
Dark, Perhaps Forever
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03dark.html
It is still shocking. Although cosmologists have adopted a cute name, dark energy, for whatever is driving this apparently antigravitational behavior on the part of the universe, nobody claims to understand why it is happening, or its implications for the future of the universe and of the life within it, despite thousands of learned papers, scores of conferences and millions of dollars’ worth of telescope time. It has led some cosmologists to the verge of abandoning their fondest dream: a theory that can account for the universe and everything about it in a single breath.
June 2, 2008
Don Cherry
Easily the second-best dressed man in sports (behind Deion Sanders, of course)
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/gallery/featured/GAL1139082/1/index.htm?bcnn=yes
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/gallery/featured/GAL1139082/1/index.htm?bcnn=yes
In the Middle of Nowhere, a Nation’s Center
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/us/02land.html
Slideshow:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/02/us/0602-LAND_index.html
Slideshow:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/02/us/0602-LAND_index.html
It is a wind-tattered American flag, flapping at the top of a silvery pole that rises from the Dakota moonscape like the claim stake of some disoriented astronaut. A hand-scrawled sign propped against a barbed-wire fence provides confirmation: Though the absence of a souvenir stand or even a snow-cone booth would suggest otherwise, this remote spot is, in fact, the declared geographic center of the United States.
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