December 2009
13 posts
Kyocera Unveils Kinetic Flexible OLED Cell Phone |... →
Charting the future of cell phone technology, Kyocera recently unveiled a kinetic energy-powered phone that is capable of folding up like a wallet. Designed by industrial designer Susan McKinney, the EOS phone consists of a soft, semi-rigid polymer skin surrounding a flexible low-energy OLED display. Shape memory allows the phone’s keys to pop up when in use and blend in with the surface during...
UK Ecovillage Wins Government Grant : TreeHugger →
After an exhausting planning process, during which the initiative was twice rejected by local planning authorities, a group of families building a 74 acre ecovillage in Wales won £350,000 (over half a million US dollars) in grant money from the UK government last week.
It took a lot of convincing, but for the folks at Lammas, the third time was the charm. Despite fitting in nicely with a local...
Contemporary African Art Since 1980: exclusive... →
Unfortunately, not a subject you hear about every day. Click the link for lots of great African art.
BBC News - Woman knocks Pope down at Christmas... →
Best Christmas present ever. Hundreds of years of collective anger, grief and angst must’ve channeled into that woman’s fist when it made contact with his face. +1 for all of us, and lols.
My friends, this woman is a Hero.
Worldchanging: Young People Negotiate Copenhagen... →
Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasm | h+... →
Testosterone Does Not Induce Aggression | Medical... →
New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A recent study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects disproves this age-old gender essentialist myth.
Fat, gay and proud: a new kind of Venezuelan... →
It is another beauty pageant in Venezuela, a self-styled “beauty superpower” which worships physical perfection and has won the two most recent Miss Universe titles. But this show in Caracas is different. Even from the back of the theatre you noticesomething striking about the contestants. They are men. Large, chubby men.
Welcome to Miss Fat Gay Venezuela, a pageant with a new...
WatchChimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story (via TEDtalks)
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
(via theworldpulse)
Obama Weighs Options In Afghanistan | The Onion →
Pressure is mounting on President Obama to make a decision on the future of Afghanistan.
Here are the options currently being considered:
Not only learn the lessons of Vietnam, but apply them as well
Visit; act fascinated by their rugs
Remove every American soldier; see if fighting continues
Legalize gambling, as that’s worked well domestically
Thunderdome-style battle to the...