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Fine-tuning the experience for the "entertain-me-right-this-second generation" takes a lot of technology, manpower, and work. Dis...

This reminds me of the stardust@home project, recruiting the public to whittle away at a mammoth task. In the stardust project it's to ...

Watch the tree branches sag as they're laden with snow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy0P5vuCntc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

At ngrams.googlelabs.com , you can search the history of any word's prevalence if usage over 200 years. Most interesting for words that ...

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

This painting, in the Orangerie Museum next to the Louvre in Paris, has a fascinating expression - wistful, languorous, effete. It's by ...

Apps like gateguru help you find airport amenities, and TSA has an app that predicts security wait times. TE PRACTICAL TRAVELER: Airport App...

Elite schools cost more, may lead to more prestigious post-secondary offerings, but the connections of a huge state school may be more ferti...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoyAZSlvAQE&feature=youtube_gdata_player Sent from my iPhone

The Bernie Madoff pay-back: "the settlement constituted the largest single forfeiture in American judicial history" DEALBOOK: Deal...

This animated graph is explained so clearly. A tremendous amount of data made simple.

www.yapta.com Yapta   lets you track changes in flight prices and helps you find refunds on airline tickets. Yapta  helps you save money o...

A pregnancy: This guy is really devoted to documenting his aging process - he built a rig and carried it with him when he traveled... He ...

Look at this seamanship - incredibly intuitive, or just incredibly lucky?