US retailers stall Bangladesh safety deal
After deadly factory collapse, European clothing stores agree to safety code with suppliers but US retailers hold out.
NELTRON
Dormant moving image maker with interests in music, film, games, politics and retro-tech. Any opinions expressed are my own.
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2013-05-19
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Paul Friedlander
British artist, physicist, and all-around science enthusiast Paul Friedlander produces kinetic light sculptures that provide a colorful feast for the eyes. How does he do it? He rapidly rotates a piece of string through white light.
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2013-05-18
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ST Format magazine.
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npr:
A large study of 30,000 people in Copenhagen over 14 years found that those who biked to work lowered their risk of death by 40 percent compared to sedentary people. And in the short term, another study of 100 people in Perth, Australia, who replaced some car commutes with bike trips over the course of a year, found the bicycling improved aerobic fitness, cholesterol numbers, and lowered the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
That seems pretty straightforward. But what about the risk of getting crushed by a trash truck? Anyone who’s bicycled even a little bit knows all too well the fear of an encounter with a motor vehicle. Just yesterday the Washington Post reported on a 20-year-old bicyclist who was critically injured after being hit by a car in downtown D.C.
— Biking To Work: Healthful Until You Hit A Pothole : Shots - Health News
Photo: John Rose/NPR
Source: NPR
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For those on Tumblr who don’t remember Geocities, here’s what Yahoo did to it. Now Yahoo might want Tumblr. This is why we are scared.
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Emergent Futures Tumblelog: The Community, Tumblr and Yahoo - Do we Protest?
There are a couple of services that are really important to my life and my business. One of them is Tumblr and the other is Evernote. In promoting Evernote for example I often tell people that if Microsoft buys it I will retire. That is because it has become so important to my work flow and…
Source: emergentfutures
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This crazy-looking thing is a new kind of wind turbine —which happens to produce 600 percent more power than a conventional windmill.
Plus it’s 10 times as ugly but perhaps we can work on that!
Source: poptech
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2013-05-16
This week’s zarjaz prog 1832 is now available from our online shop and on your iPad or phone from the app store.
As you can see from this cover by Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague,this prog sees the return of Downlode’s own Finnegan Rapunzel Sinister,but where is his partner in crime,Dexter?You’ll have to buy the comic to find out!!
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