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Frida Kahlo in her studio at home in Coyoacán, México, 1931.
Eating Pelegrino 3 course lunch special at Haizea Restaurant (10.5 euro but really is dinner in Spain, included bottle of Tinto, Navarra Wine).
Posted on Sunday, June 10th 2012
Yesterday, when leaving Ronsesvalles, Spain, my NYorker instinct kicked in when some hustler type wanted to show us around some of the historic 12th, 13th, and 14th century buildings. He even snuck us into the church and turned the lights on… then Rosa told me the hustler was a priest, lol.
Posted on Sunday, June 10th 2012
Rosa flan dessert @ Haizea Hostal! Rosa says, “This is Flan!”
Posted on Sunday, June 10th 2012
At Newark Airport with supplies for 6 week walk in this bag!
Posted on Wednesday, June 6th 2012
Nanowire Forest Splits Water with Sunlight
researchers at University of California, San Diego havedeveloped a quite different approachto mimicking photosynthesis for splitting water molecules by using a 3D branched nanowire array that looks like a forest of trees.
According to Deli Wang, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, this tree-like structure enables both trees and the nanowire arrays to capture the maximum amount of solar energy. To illustrate what he means, Wang points to satellite imagery in which flat surfaces like oceans or deserts simply reflect the light back and forests remain dark because they are absorbing the light.
Full Story: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on Thursday, March 15th 2012
Reblogged from Emergent Futures Tumblelog
Bold Bernace Predictions for 2023: Occupy Wall Street movement will need to prepare for “pain rays” in the future after the tear gas doesn’t work…
Pentagon demonstrates “Pain Ray”
Officially called the ‘Active Denial System’ (ADS), the system uses millimetre wave radio frequency to create a burning sensation in the top 1/64th inch of your skin.
The system could be used to move away crowds or advancing enemies, without doing any permanent damage. After 11,000 field tests, the Air Force Research Laboratory says only two people needed medical attention, one of whom was accidentally exposed to the system operating at 100%.
Last December I outlined this similar system from Ratheon, able to disrupt breathing using a low-frequency speaker system - that device was only at the patent stage at the time.
The ADS demonstrated was mounted on a humvee, and needs 16 hours to warm up before use. In the real world, it is likely to stay switched on all the time to be ready immediately, although that will chew through a lot of gas.
Check out a video of the machine in action here (skip to 1:30 for the action).
Posted on Wednesday, March 14th 2012
Reblogged from 8 Bit Future
If this dude becomes President; I’m going to think I’ve gone back in time to Ronald Reagan again— the horror, the horror…
Posted on Tuesday, March 13th 2012
Posted on Tuesday, March 13th 2012
Reblogged from Random Ramblings of a Madman
At this point in the Reagan recovery government spending had risen 11.6 percent; this time around it’s actually down by 2.6 percent. So if we had followed the Reagan track, spending would be almost 15 percent higher.
Since government spending on goods and services is about $3 trillion a year,…
Posted on Saturday, March 3rd 2012
Reblogged from Wonklife
The 1% suffer too; watch video to listen to quotes of their suffering. Please don’t cry, perhaps we can reduce the minimum wage, export a few more jobs, reduce a few more pension benefits, cut medicare to those overprivileged seniors, cut student aid already, and try for the mother of god to cut taxes so that the 1% can get back to the good old days… where is the tea party when we need them?
Wall Street Execs Whine Over Bonus Cuts
A Bloomberg article which discusses the recent cuts in Wall Street bonuses is discussed by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. Watch Cenk and Ana discuss some great quotes from Wall Street bankers about how terrible their lives are since their bonuses have been cut.
I know this is a Young Turks video but honestly, I highly recommend watching just for the unbelievable quotes from Wall Street executives. This is the epitome of entitlement.
Posted on Saturday, March 3rd 2012
Reblogged from Mohandas Gandhi
Capitalist Bullies that ruin our day… (I exempt from this critique the women on ABC’s Revenge who are smoking hot :-)
Posted on Saturday, March 3rd 2012
Reblogged from Felix
Well some political stuff just for the hell—enjoy, all you conformist, lol…
How *not* to live via @sjw
Posted on Friday, March 2nd 2012
Reblogged from Fancy Hands
Cool Exception to my political posts: Bond Theme with flying robot quadrotors via Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. If this proves anything, it is that utopia/skynet is near!
Posted on Friday, March 2nd 2012
Info below talks on generalized pollution but a significant portion obviously comes from the tremendous surge in car ownership:
“China’s unprecedented growth is carrying a steadily steeper price tag as its air pollution hikes the nation’s health care costs, finds a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although China has made substantial progress in reducing its air pollution, MIT researchers say its economic impact has jumped from $22 billion in 1975 to $112 billion in 2005. The costs result from both lost labor and the increased need for health care because ozone and particulates in air can cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
“The results clearly indicate that ozone and particulate matter have substantially impacted the Chinese economy over the past 30 years,” Noelle Selin, an assistant MIT professor of engineering systems and atmospheric chemistry, said in announcing the findings that appear in the February edition of the journal Global Environmental Change.
The study, by researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, said pollution’s economic impact has grown, because population growth increased the number of people exposed to it and higher incomes raised the costs associated with lost productivity.”
Read the rest at USA Today
Posted on Wednesday, February 29th 2012
Reblogged from Emergent Futures Tumblelog
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