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$500 pizza tips carry legacy of brother's last wish

Heartwarming story. Hope you like it.

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2013/07/500-tips-leave-legacy-after-brothers-death.html

Great jobs to do in retirement

Deliver new RVs to dealers/buyers, or transport and drive a combine, flowing the harvest northward across the continent. 

30% of their drivers are seniors

http://www.rvtransport.com/

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_harvesting

"Is harvest your favourite time of year?  Can't get enough running combine? Have a passion for farming? Love to see the open road through the windshield of a semi?   Enjoy a job well done?  Want to see the most advanced farming operations of North America?  Love to travel? If you answered yes to all of the above then we may have the job for you!"

http://thackerharvesting.ca/

Natural woman sung in 17 different voices.

These impressions are spot on - gestures and everything.
Few impressionists can switch between so many voices so quickly (Robin Williams, Frank Calliendo), and I've never heard one sing and also deliver a fine performance.



http://bcove.me/j60urmdz

‘Happy’ Dancers Arrested, Abused in Iran

Such an outrage - arrested and abused for showing how happy they were!! The ultimate of repression.
'Happy' Dancers Arrested, Abused in Iran
"Thanks for thinking about us," says an Instagram message from Neda, one of six Iranians arrested for posting a music video dancing to Pharrell Willia...
Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/21/happy-dancers-arrested-abused-in-iran.html

Dramatic time lapse storm footage.

Watch from 52 seconds on as a supercell develops. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VoO89cqDgJU

A 3D-PRINTER saves a life

Do you have a 3-D printer yet?
http://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/science/innovation/a-3d-printed-second-chance/


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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

Deconstructing how we drive. At about 12 minutes they discuss the human/social element of polite vs aggressive drivers doing unexpected things at a 4-way stop, and how the driverless car navigates this and performs the decision making.

http://youtu.be/YXylqtEQ0tk

NYTimes: Apple Said to Be in Talks to Buy Rising Music Brand for $3.2 Billion

"For Apple, which has a $159 billion cash hoard, a $3 billion deal would have little effect on its purse." - wow! 

http://nyti.ms/1jm6a8G

An acquisition of Beats Electronics and its music-streaming service would be Apple's largest ever and would see the maker of the iPhone acquire the biggest manufacturer of high-end headphones.

The Best of 2013 Car Crash Compilation - NEW by CCC :)

Another car crash video. Look how many are caused by inattention and by performing U-turns without looking.
This one is much more tightly edited than most of these videos.

http://youtu.be/bHjz9QsqYoE


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How Complex Systems Fail.

I agree that post-hoc analysis favors finding a single root cause in a complex system where every practitioner is just trying to weigh competing principles of safety, cost, efficiency, and laziness.

NYTimes: Libertarians Trail Meter Readers, Telling Town: Live Free or Else

Thank goodness for ex-cons who don't pay taxes as a protest, and follow meter-maids around and taunt them. Life just wouldn't be interesting without such broad-minded altruists. 

The city has resorted to countervigilantism, "hiring a private investigator to follow and videotape the activists following and videotaping the parking enforcers"

Oh brother. 

http://nyti.ms/1unIRiY

Activists in Keene, N.H., are tracking parking officers, feeding expired meters and leaving notes saying "we saved you from the king's tariff," all in an effort to combat the "violent monopoly" of government.

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Stem cell based therapy for osteoarthritis in a sheep model

There is something alluring, captivating about using your own pluripotent cells to regenerate cartilage in damaged joints. Unfortunately, a respected organization feels it's too early and preliminary to put hope in this technique.
Crude cell extracts of people's blood may not really be true stem cell infusions. Therapy is totally unregulated. What happens to these pluripotent cells after they're implanted? Trials are too small to be conclusive. 

http://www.rheumatologyupdate.com.au/latest-news/ara-voices-concern-over-oa-stem-cell-therapy

Here is a sheep study of the technique:

http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/19024972/reload=0;jsessionid=I4c7rCAkX81ph3pq7MUM.24

Review of a few dozen papers:

"knowledge on this topic is still preliminary, as shown by the prevalence of preclinical studies and the presence of low-quality clinical studies"

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00167-012-2329-3

What happens to these powerful cells? "concerns have been raised regarding the migration, biodistribution, survival, and safety of MSCs following systemic infusion or local implantation"

http://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v71/n4-2/full/pr201168a.html

Good results from 7 patients in New York: 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3771705/#!po=0.769231

Good results from 4 patients in Iran: 
http://www.hope4harper.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Davatchi-et-al.-2011-Mesenchymal-stem-cell-therapy-for-knee-osteoarthritis.-Preliminary-report-of-four-patients2.pdf

NYTimes.com: Valuable Humans in Our Digital Future

Interesting article looking at our digital world and how prized true human contact is becoming. As more and more people have entire careers that are online creating websites and so on, their life's work is so ephemeral compared to the craftsmen of yesteryear, and perhaps people are coming to value the human interactions of life more because they see that as more enduring than their life's work.

From The New York Times:

Valuable Humans in Our Digital Future

A recent article noted that lots of consumer technology is available to the poor. The things that get people out of poverty, like education and child care, are becoming more expensive. You could read that as a sign that the digital explosion is creating a new kind of shortage.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/valuable-humans-in-our-digital-future/

NYTimes: Crunching the Numbers to Find the Best Airfare

http://nyti.ms/1mUeRte

What's the cheapest day to book? To depart and return? A company called Hopper offers insight.

http://www.hopper.com/flights/from-SEA/to-BOS/when.html

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Lucca Italy

Bruno suggests staying in this town to be central to everything.

Lucca LU
Italy
http://goo.gl/maps/Ri5bL


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Anesthetic gases contribute to Global warming

Wow! "Most of the organic anesthetic gases remain for a long time in the atmosphere where they have the potential to act as greenhouse gases. Published atmospheric lifetimes range between 1.4 and 21.4 years for sevoflurane and desflurane, respectively. Various volatile anesthetics have been calculated to have a range of 1100 (isoflurane)9 to 3766 (desflurane)3 times the greenhouse warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2)...[a typical hospital puts out] the equivalent of approximately 100 to 1200 passenger car emissions/year/midsized hospital.  In more personal terms, one 8-hour day, or 8 MAC-hours of desflurane delivery at 1 to 2 L FGF would equal 58 to 116 days of average auto emissions"