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Amongst the fuss and pointless politicking about the National Broadband plan, did you know that there already is a nationwide super-fast fiber broadband infrastructure? It’s called National LambdaRail (NLR), and it’s been privately funded.
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National Broadband? There’s One Already–With No Taxpayer Funding!
A solar panel can do so much more than collect the sun’s rays.
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New Sons of Design Reinvent the Solar Panel for "Sunny Memories"
Have “design thinking” and “social innovation” become permanently intertwined? You’d have to think so based on Tim Brown’s book and the prevailing discourse at any major design/innovation conference (SXSW, PICNIC, GEL, GAIN, LIFT)
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8 Lessons for Creating Social Impact
The Brainiacs Jill Tarter Director SETI When astronomer Jill Tarter was awarded the TED Prize in 2009, she was given the opportunity to make a wish big enough to change the world, and she did: “I wish that you would empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company.” Now Tarter is laying the groundwork to make her own wish come true, by reorganizing the way the scientific community works and how we Earthlings search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Tarter — whose life and work inspired the movie Contact — chatted with FastCompany.com as she rode shotgun up northern California’s Interstate 5 on her way to — where else? — the observatory.
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Jill Tarter, Director of SETI
Yesterday, Dorothy Height, a civil rights activist for over seven decades, was laid to rest at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Throughout her life, Dorothy advocated for women’s equality and was a champion for social justice. She embodied the spirit of hope and her inspiring work will live well beyond her 98 years
Richard Nash talks about book publishing: Basically, the best-selling five hundred books each year will likely be published much like Little Brown publishes James Patterson, on a TV production model, or like Scholastic did Harry Potter and Doubleday Dan Brown, on a big Hollywood blockbuster model. The rest will be published by niche social publishing communities.
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The Future of Books and Publishing
Part of the Pocket Penguin Series, the 57 pages in this book are culled from a number of different volumes by Elizabeth David. She brings colour and life to whatever she describes. Most of the content of this book is concerned with the food and markets of France, but the following is taken from a short excursion to the country markets of Italy: Here the cabbages are cobalt blue, the beetroots deep rose, the lettuces clear pure green, sharp as glass.
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Of Pageants and Picnics
In Brooklyn tomorrow, advocates, researchers and service providers will rally around the release of new data on the real cost of living for seniors in New York State. The findings of the New York Elder Economic Security Standard Index™ (Elder Index), a new tool developed by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) and the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Boston , show that an older New Yorker needs between about $16,100 to over $42,700 to meet basic needs, depending on his or her housing and health status. We all know it is expensive to live, let alone retire, in New York, particularly in the state’s urban areas.
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WOW Launches New York Elder Initiative!
Congrats to our Wisconsin partner, the Wisconsin Women’s Network ! It placed an op-ed in today’s Cap Times on the development of a supplemental poverty measure announced by the U.S. Census Bureau last month. Check out “A Better Way to Measure Poverty” and comment today
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Op-Ed Published by WOW’s Wisconsin Partner on Measuring Poverty
Le Grand Meaulnes, being one of those volumes that most good writers turn to at some point in their career, is arguably one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. Here’s a sample: They pulled up beside a wood of firs. The passengers had to wait a moment on the gangway, pressed against one another, while one of the boatmen unlocked the gate .
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Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
This week, with health care reform passed, the New York Times speculated that Social Security, “the other big entitlement program,” would be the next big program to “tackle,” specifically within the context of reducing the nation’s debt. Reports followed that suggest the program is in crisis, despite the fact that predictions show Social Security can pay benefits in full until 2037.
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Social Security Isn’t in “Crisis” – But Older Women Are.
Thanks to the hard work of elder advocates across the country, the Community Living Assistance Services & Supports (CLASS) became law after a decade long health care reform effort which culminated on Tuesday when the President signed the bill. The provisions of the CLASS Act set up a voluntary long-term care insurance program in 2011 that will provide workers with an opportunity to save for their chronic health needs through monthly payroll deductions. The program will help those with significant functional disabilities afford services and supports in the community.
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Health Care Reform: CLASS Act Now Law
Richard Aronowitz’s second novel, It’s Just the Beating of My Heart, is a first-person narrative in the voice of John Stack, a borderline alcoholic living alone in the Gloucestershire countryside after being abandoned by his wife. He is an Art dealer, but not doing as well as he used to; in denial about his drinking and with little more to brighten his week than weekend visits from his twelve-year-old daughter, Bryony.
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It’s Just the Beating of My Heart
A French animator’s soundtrack visualization brings to mind the Kaossilator. So, this video by animator Renaud Hallée isn’t quite a pure infographic–but as you’ll see, it’s pretty damn close.
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Infographic of the Day: All Music Should Look Like This
It hasn’t officially been rebranded, of course; God is notoriously conservative about updating that Bible of His. But, as reported by the New York Times , Reboot, a nonprofit Jewish think tank, has come up with a new version of Shabbat that is not only restive but sort of cheekily appropriate. And if you notice a lack of Jews on the internet, starting about now, you’ll know why
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Nation’s Jews Abandon Facebook and Twitter, One Day Per Week, Starting…Now
You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings . So it’s actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren’t more common
Ninteno’s guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible? Miyamoto’s words came during an interview with the AP .
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Nintendo DS in Classrooms to Help Japanese Schoolkids Find the Square Root of Mario
A pair of senators, one red, one blue, have today proposed a biometric ID system to “mend” immigration. It’s part of a bipartisan immigration bill backed by President Obama, and proposes to replace everyone’s social security cards with one that stores biometric information about the individual.
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Why the Bipartisan Proposal for Biometric ID Cards Will Probably Fail
Good news for anyone who has old records but no record player: you can make your own record player pretty easily–just add cardboard. Griffiths, Gibson and Ramsay Productions (GGRP), a Vancouver-based sound design studio, exploited the idea in a direct mail marketing piece. The company created a record player from a corrugated cardboard envelope that can hold a 45 rpm record in place
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Cardboard Record Sleeve Turns Into Record Player
A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we’ve got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on Android, iPhone and Web platforms, giving the commission a more realistic idea of the state of the U.S.’s Internet connections than the figures bandied about by the ISPs
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FCC’s Broadband Measuring Tool Gets 150,000 Takers, Shows West-Coast Bias