August 2011
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You Blink You Lose: National Geographic team... →
This is one way to end the day on an Up! note….
laudanumforbreakfast:
The team from National Geographic have built a house inspired by the Pixar movie Up! that can really fly.
Using 300 helium-filled weather balloons, a team of scientists, engineers, two balloon pilots and dozens of volunteers, they managed to get the small house 10,000 feet into the air.
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The American Prospect: Michael Bloomberg's Young... →
Bold and promising attempt by Mike Bloomberg and George Soros to help shift outcomes for poor black and Latino males. Hope it works, and becomes a useful guide for further efforts by others.
capitalnewyork:
His $127 million Young Men’s Initiative (YMI) has been called the “boldest and most comprehensive” plan to serve this population ever undertaken by a local government. Almost half of the...
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“Is this not nuts? There’s only one president at a time, occupying the toughest...”
– Give Obama a break - CNN.com (via mikehudack)
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The top 10 electric cars most likely to succeed |... →
Interesting list of the most promising electric vehicles hitting the market now. Lots of possibilities here.
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Google's Big Mistake - Buying Motorola to Save... →
This Forbes piece lays out a lot of my own thoughts on Google-Motorola. Hard to see how protecting one business that doesn’t make Google any money by buying another business that isn’t making any money ends up making Google any money. On the other hand, as the old joke goes, maybe they’ll make it up on volume.
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“The Tea Party is no longer about economics, not that it ever solely was. At the...”
– What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party (via azspot)
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Crashing the Tea Party →
So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest...
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