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The Arlington (TX) Police and Fire Departments and the Texas-based nonprofit a Wish with Wings joined forces to realize the dream of a young cancer patient who wanted nothing more than to become Batman for a day.
Officers and firefighters, assisted by the Mayor’s Office, organized various comic-inspired crimes around the city requiring the ass-kicking skills of a caped crusader.
Accompanied by police and Big Batman, 7-year-old Kye, who suffers from leukemia, roamed the streets of Arlington as Little Batman, mopping up an attempted bank robbery by the Joker, and putting the kibosh on a city hall bomb planted by the Riddler.
At the end of a long day of crime fighting, Kye was awarded the Key to the City by Assistant Police Chief James Hawthorne.
(via City Helps Fulfill Sick Kid’s Dream Of Becoming Batman For A Day)

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Houston: Doughnut City
The term Doughnut City is used to describe a phenomenon that affects the physical shape of some cities of the North American Sun Belt. It consists of the concentration of urban activity on the ring road (where the newest and most advanced generation of housing estates and office parks are located) and the parallel physical disappearance of all that remains inside (the interior is affected by an accelerated process of obsolescence that leads to the demolition of a multitude of buildings). Viewed from a European perspective, the Doughnut City is a phenomenon that goes against nature. If in the cities of the Old Continent proximity to the center means an added value, in the Doughnut City quite the reverse is true: the most eligible urban areas are on the final periphery.

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23 April 2012
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smarterplanet:

Cadillac testing ‘Super Cruise’ feature for future cars | Physorg.com
Cadillac is reportedly joining the crowd working on features that it says should reduce car accidents by allowing the car to drive itself under optimal conditions, relieving the driver from fatigue, making road trips safer for the driver and passengers. Currently, Cadillac is already offering features that intercede on the driver’s behalf should the vehicle “sense” a dangerous situation. The new technology, which GM says likely will make it into showrooms by the middle of the decade, should make cars even safer by removing the hazard caused by human fatigue.

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14 April 2012
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13 April 2012
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emergentfutures:

How America Spends Money: 100 Years in the Life of the Family Budget
Paul Higgins: great story and analysis of the change of family budgets from necessities to discretionary spending (although some would now say that some of the discretionary spending is necessary). The ratio in the USA of spending on housing to food has gone from 0.534 in 1900 (i.e. almost twice as much spent on food as housing) to 2.538 (more than 2.5 times spent on housing as on food). At the same time family sizes have shrunk.

Full Story: The Atlantic

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12 April 2012

Erik Levine

Thanks Bill.

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24 March 2012
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Researchers Trigger Memories by Stimulating Individual Neurons:
MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a small cluster of neurons, the researchers were able to force the subject to recall a specific memory. By removing these neurons, the subject would lose that memory.
As you can imagine, the trick here is activating individual neurons, which are incredibly small and not really the kind of thing you can attach electrodes to. To do this, the researchers used optogenetics, a bleeding edge sphere of science that involves the genetic manipulation of cells so that they’re sensitive to light. These modified cells are then triggered using lasers; you drill a hole through the subject’s skull and point the laser at a small cluster of neurons.

(via MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons | ExtremeTech)

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29 December 2011

Trailers coming out in 2012

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29 November 2011
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15 November 2011

designoclock:

Giha Woo designed a pen attachment that can help you draw straight lines. Called the “Constrained Ball”, this attachment can be easily attached on any pen and can help you draw straight lines, horizontally or vertically.

7 months ago on
5 November 2011

Noël Dolla

Noël Dolla write up on The Silo. A blog stock piling artists to soon forgotten by Raphael Rubinstein

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28 October 2011

❝ If we all reacted the same way, we’d be predictable, and there’s always more than one way to view a situation. What’s true for the group is also true for the individual. It’s simple: Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It’s slow death. ❞
Major Motoko Kusanagi Ghost in a Shell

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25 October 2011

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