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2013-05-22 15:50:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Meteorites seen falling since 2500BC visualized
http://goo.gl/Z5L1Q
About 35,000 meteorites have been recorded since 2500 BC, and a little over 1,000 of them were seen while they fell. Cool bar chart shows the number and volume of meteorites that have been seen over time, and on the initial load, you get to watch the meteorites fall, one bright orange fireball at a time.

2013-05-22 15:49:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Ending poverty by 2030
http://goo.gl/ICBwt
While the future trajectory of global poverty is impossible to predict, the understanding of what it will take to eliminate poverty is growing. The challenge for the global community is to seize this knowledge so that the dream of achieving a poverty-free world becomes a reality.

The 40-year period from 1990 to 2030 resembles a relay race in which responsibility for leading the charge on global poverty reduction passes between these three giants.

China’s relay leg is the most striking. It undergoes a dramatic transformation in which its population, which is initially predominantly poor, disperses over a range of consumption levels beyond the poverty line, driven by rapid, though often inequitable, consumption growth.

2013-05-07 07:49:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Short Film About KISS’ Ballad ‘Beth’ As Told From Her Point of View

2013-05-07 07:02:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

The Best Places to Fly This Summer
http://goo.gl/KnD6d
Airline ticket prices for summer travel to Tampa, Fla., New York, Denver and Washington, D.C., have fallen, after steep increases for several consecutive years, according to Orbitz.com. The average ticket already purchased for summertime flights to Chicago is down more than 18% from the same period last year. Tickets bought for Honolulu are 10% cheaper than those bought during the same stretch of 2012. Lots of domestic destinations have seen soft demand and the biggest price drops have been in cities with more discount-carrier service than years before.

2013-05-07 07:01:36 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Every Genre of Music. Graphed and Sampled
http://goo.gl/0PJBK
Crazy cool interactive graph of all musical genres, including samples for every example. Looks like it required a Herculean amount of labor.

2013-05-01 16:00:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Panel I Moderated at the Milken Global Conf - Inventing the Impossible
http://goo.gl/EfAV2
At this years Milken Global Conf, I had the privilege to moderated an amazing panel of some of the smartest people on the planet.

Nolan Bushnell, Chairman and CEO, Brainrush, Pablos Holman, Hacker and Inventor, Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, Salim Ismail, Founding Executive Director, Singularity University & Marco Tempest, Cyber Illusionist

2013-04-27 20:16:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Mark Victor Hansen speaking at METal

2013-04-27 13:18:01 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

What will the world look like in 50 years?
The problems facing our world are so large that they demand disruptive thinking. We don't have time to think in incremental terms. It's time to challenge the status quo, and dare to imagine what we can do. 

2013-04-25 00:38:32 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

Subtly Animated GIFs of London Street Scenes Focus on One Person

2013-04-17 00:16:18 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-04-12 15:55:01 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Gold is in a free fall
Gold prices just entered a bear market. Down 21% from their mid-2011 highs. Most recent drop is the largest since 2/29/12, taking the price of the barbarous relic back to July 2011 lows.

2013-04-09 16:17:50 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

The futuristic Rebellion T-1000 Gotham Watch
http://goo.gl/rcqhh I'm not a watch guy but the Rebellion T-1000 Gotham watch is something I would wear. The main working mechanism is controlled via the 6 barrels bound together via the 2 finely tuned chains that bind them together, and help distribute the energy on a continuous basis with accuracy. The winding lever is an enlarged component of this mysterious movement, that the winding force is increased by more than 10 times the average of other mechanical movements. That is the reason why such high levels of energy get generated in a single winding, which results in the 1,000 hours of power reserve to run the engine of the watch with such accuracy.

2013-04-09 16:10:07 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Literally Billions
http://goo.gl/m59Rf
Last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world’s population topped seven billion, and now stands at approximately 7,077,490,000 as of noon Eastern, April 9, 2013. Did you know that every human being on the Earth, packed tightly, would fit inside a 900-meter diameter sphere?

However, had you wanted to experience the world’s population in its most primitive form – a single Web page featuring seven-billion-plus faces, dots, or whatever – yesterday, your search would’ve turned up bupkis.

That’s a dot for every man, woman, and child alive today, indexed to the nearest million per Census Bureau estimates. Arranged similarly, in real life, these seven gigapeople would cover the entire state of Rhode Island.

2013-04-09 15:39:47 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 8 +1s)

Watch Rich People Earn More Money Than You In Real Time
Here is an awesome visualization showing how much various people make in one minute. On the chart (and quickly moving past it) are Kobe Bryant and Exxon Mobil Corporation CEO Rex Tillerson. Also included are median and minimum wage workers, President Obama, the average teacher, and the average doctor.

2013-04-09 15:04:17 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Your Wine Habit Is Threatening Endangered Pandas
http://goo.gl/hG70a
By 2015, global wine consumption is expected to rise by nearly two billion bottles, an increase of 4.5% since 2006, with China’s growing middle class boosting the country into the top five world wine markets. And while China now imports most of its wine from France, Australia, and the US, Hannah predicts the Chinese could be sipping more home-grown wine within a few decades.

2013-04-08 13:26:13 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 6 +1s)

If Facebook Made Houses, Here's What They'd Look Like
With Facebook's new "Home," app that swaps out the standard home screen for a Facebook-centric interface. The news—and somewhat misleading name—inspired the folks over at The Joy of Tech to craft some highly technical and thoroughly peer-reviewed blueprints of what an actual Facebook 'home' might look like, and, well, let's just say it's nothing like actual houses of Facebook's honchos, nor the Gehry-designed sprawl of the company's forthcoming campus.

2013-04-04 14:34:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This week's cover for The Ecomonist - "Korean Roulette"
Kim Jong-un: Can US trust North Korea leader to act rationally? Kim Jong-un isn't the first North Korean leader to use threats for political gain. But the West doesn't really know what of make of him because of his youth and the uncertainty that shrouds the country.

2013-04-04 14:34:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

TED: 100 Websites You Should Know + Use 
http://goo.gl/6kiaT 
Back in 2007, a TED video discussed a list of 100 websites you should know and use. It becamse one of their more popular pages. They just updated 100 Websites You Should Know and Use..

2013-03-23 12:58:13 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The Broken Catholic Church 
http://goo.gl/Bmmrt (PDF Report)
There are several issues with the new ordinands entering the Priesthood, the average age is 34.6 years old and 71% of the Priests' race or ethnicity was Caucasian... The biggest growth in Catholicism is coming from Latin America, Africa & Asia.. Church needs some Major reform.

2013-03-23 12:57:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Road Kill Friendly Feeding States
http://goo.gl/p0ljx
There you are, driving home, thinking about what it is you’re going to eat for dinner, when THUMP, you peg a deer. Here is an interactive map of states with roadkill laws and find out your odds of hitting a deer with your vehicle.

2013-03-23 12:55:52 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 7 +1s)

Food companies know how our brains work in a grocery store, and they pay big money for good placement.

Coca-Cola's research team showed that people tend to move counterclockwise through supermarkets, from back to front — so eye-catching soda displays will be in the front right of the store to catch your attention when you go in, and main racks of soda should be at the rear right of the store.

2013-03-22 17:13:14 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

Probably the most Beautiful Street in the World
Located in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, this gorgeous tree-lined street is said to be the most beautiful street in the world. Planted 70 years ago by German employees in a former brewery site, one hundred tipuana trees stretch approximately 500 meters. In 2005, some of the trees were almost cut down to make a room for a shopping mall, however, local residents forced the mayor José Fogaça to sign a decree making the street of Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho “historical, cultural and environmental heritage of the city.”

2013-03-22 16:50:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Collection of Cyprus Cartoons
Sometimes a picture paints a thousand words and with markets treading water ahead of any news out of Cyprus, Russia, or Brussels, we thought some brief levity (if not irony) was in order. Here are a number of excellent cartoons on the Cyprus situation from how we got here to where we are going...

2013-03-21 15:08:24 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

2013-03-21 15:02:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Men’s Falling Incomes Linked to Single Parents
http://goo.gl/5FTmc
Based on a new study that shows men are earning less because more of them are raised by single mothers. Roughly 63% of children surveyed lived in a house with two parents in 2010, a stark contrast to the 82% who lived in two-parent households in 1970, and usually the single parent raising the children is female. Evidence increasingly shows that men raised by single mothers appear to fare particularly poorly.

2013-03-21 07:16:55 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Lindsay Lohan’s Mug Shots, Ranked from ‘Ooh, Child…’ to ‘Damn, Girl!’
http://goo.gl/i5Zae
At age 26, Lindsay Lohan has been taken into police custody a grand total of six times. Assuming this pattern holds for the rest of her life (and that she lives as long as the average American woman), she will have been admitted to jail roughly 19 times by the time she dies at age 81 (in jail).

2013-03-21 07:16:15 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Zaha Hadid’s Sci-Fi Miami Condo Tower Has A Helipad—And Other Awesome Things
http://goo.gl/6FOmM
One of my favorite sites, Curbed published a trove of renderings of Zaha Hadid’s hotly anticipated, hush-hush One Thousand Museum condo tower in Miami. And, readers: IT HAS A HELIPAD. The Prizker Prize-winning starchitect is clearly pulling out all the stops for her first building in the Western Hemisphere. The sci-fi ‘scraper has a sleek exoskeleton, making it look like something out of the Alien movies, plus multiple pools, a cigar lounge, a super-swank amenity deck, cabanas, and countless other ridiculous luxuries. Basically, a James Bond villain needs to live here.

2013-03-21 06:52:57 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Where the Nation’s Highest Earners Live
http://goo.gl/xbNNL
Many of the richest households are clustered in the Northeast, from Washington to Boston. The New York City suburbs around Bridgeport, Conn., including several towns that are hubs for investment firms and hedge funds, have the biggest concentration of 5 percenters. The Silicon Valley area of San Jose is second.

2013-03-20 16:33:24 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Women in Hollywood: Underrepresented On the Screen and Behind the Scenes
http://goo.gl/O9YYd (PDF Report)
A new research reports detailing gender inequalities in Hollywood, both in front of and behind the camera.

To get a sense of how men and women are portrayed on the large and small screen, researchers analyzed 11,927 speaking parts from three sources: 129 top-grossing family films (rated PG-13 or lower) released from 2006 to 2011, 275 prime-time programs from 2012 (from 10 broadcast and cable channels), and 36 kids’ programs that aired on PBS, Nickelodeon, or Disney in 2011. The analysis indicated that women are underrepresented as characters in speaking roles, as well as narrators.

2013-03-20 02:46:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The Beatles Song Charts
http://goo.gl/J7XH2
The Beatles Song Charts are a three volume set of designs by Pop Chart Lab that display a detailed breakdown of individual instruments from Beatles songs. Each design shows a different period in their extensive musical career. Prints of Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, and a box set of all three designs are available to purchase online.

2013-03-19 19:42:14 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Magic Clerk – Easter Edition
A magician works the cash register at a liquor store and amazes the customers.

2013-03-19 07:12:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

First-Person Short Film Is Like Mirror’s Edge Meets Reservoir Dog
This short-film from Ilya Naishuller starts out pretty cool then goes flat-out bonkers. I can't really think of a better way to describe it than what's in the headline, but basically—if you're into first-person running and combat, this is right up your alley.

2013-03-19 07:09:04 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Nearly Twice as Fast as iPhone 5
http://goo.gl/M7NJ3
The analysis shows the new Samsung flagship is significantly faster than competing phones including the HTC One, and its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3. However, the S3 also benchmarked faster than the iPhone 5.

2013-03-19 01:55:16 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

LA Weatherman Reading Shout-Outs On the Air
Meteorologist Henry DiCarlo and his colleagues at KTLA maintain eternal vigilance against such pranks, but one managed to slip by DiCarlo as he was wrapping up his Wednesday morning shout-outs.

"And Hugh Janus turning 10," DiCarlo says nonchalantly before moving on to his next topic.

2013-03-19 01:54:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A True Gentleman on The People’s Court

2013-03-19 01:51:22 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

2013-03-19 01:50:47 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Bellagio Las Vegas introduces all-you-can-eat caviar buffet
http://goo.gl/lqFel
The Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas, which has some of the most expensive rooms in the Las Vegas vicinity, is now offering a Caviar buffet which will allow you to eat as much of the expensive appetizers as you can! The options are quite a few including the American sturgeon caviar, red flying fish tobiko caviar, and salmon roe all for a fee of $38. But just to ensure that people come to enjoy the delicacy in the particular style, an attendant chef will ensure the right quantity is served atop house made blinis, buckwheat waffles, freshly rolled sushi, and ahi tuna cones. Choice of garnish will include chopped egg, onions, crème fraiche.

2013-03-12 18:15:54 (11 comments, 8 reshares, 17 +1s)

I'm interviewing Seth Goldin on today's show.
What questions should I ask him?

www.BusinessRockstars.com 2pm (pst).

2013-03-12 17:21:07 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

If Superheroes Were Sponsored & Branded by Major Corporations
http://goo.gl/LWVU0
Sponsored Heroes is a powerful series of photo manipulated images imagining what famous comic book superheroes would look like if they were branded by major corporations.

2013-03-12 06:00:03 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 14 +1s)

OneTab, A Chrome Browser Extension That Manages Open Tabs
http://goo.gl/yRPWq
OneTab is a browser extension for Chrome that allows users to condense all of their open tabs into a list and restore them individually or en masse when they’re needed again. The extension helps save memory by reducing the number of open tabs, and also allows users to share a cluster of tabs as a list of webpages.

2013-03-12 05:59:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The Man Who Sells the Moon 
http://goo.gl/L8nAt
Check out this absolutely fascinating six-minute-long interview with Dennis Hope, a Nevada resident who has been selling properties on the moon and other planets since 1980. Struggling for money after a divorce, Hope saw the potential when he when "looked out the window and saw the moon and said, 'There's a lot of property,'" he explains, detailing how 1967's Outer Space Treaty, the basis for international space law, does not explicitly put forth restrictions on individuals owning "satellite bodies" beyond the reaches of Earth. After filing a declaration of ownership with the United Nations and never hearing back with any "legal problems" about his "claim of ownership," Hope, who has a self-described "honesty quirk" about him, launched his brokerage and is now developing plans for a... more »

2013-03-12 05:58:25 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

The Thinnest Watch in the World, Only 0.5mm
http://goo.gl/ozHM0
The CST-01 is assembled by laminating thin, flexible components into a 0.5mm pocket etched into a single piece of flexible stainless steel. In order to make the watch as thin and minimal as possible, there are no buttons or knobs on the watch itself. Charging and setting the time is done on the included base station, and for those outside the US who prefer a 24 hour time format, this is also user selectable from the base station.

2013-03-12 05:57:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Rich People Live Longer 
http://goo.gl/ODBsU
I suppose this shouldn’t be surprising – and it’s interesting in terms of proposed changes to social security. Interesting chart in that it combines life expectancy with "percentage of healthy years”. I’ve heard that a lot of medical research now isn’t necessarily to make you live longer, but for you to be healthy as long as possible, then fall apart all at once and die quickly.

2013-03-10 02:44:28 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 13 +1s)

Cree LED Light Bulbs Launched
http://goo.gl/JTIsW
Look out Philips and other current LED bulb makers, there is a new entry in your market. CREE introduces its own LED light bulb, something that comes in the mold of the familiar incandescent bulb but actually emit LED-based lighting.

The bulbs are said to be affordable, a factor that has hindered some folks from shifting to the efficient and ecofriendly lighting solutions. The bulb is powered by a Cree LED Filament Tower Technology and promises to render compact optical balance through a real glass bulb.

Each bulb is 84-percent more efficient than incandescent, lasts 25,000 hours and comes with a 10-year warranty. Let’s see your old bulb match that.

2013-03-10 02:44:00 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Wrigley to sell caffeinated chewing gum
http://goo.gl/ZUa2D
Wrigley hopes to tap into fast-growing sales of energy products at a time when gum demand has lost its zest. But the introduction of Alert also comes amid criticism of energy drinks by consumer groups and regulators concerned about their safety and use by teenagers. 

The hexagonal shape of Alert's pieces doesn't resemble traditional oval or rectangular-shaped gum pellets; and at a suggested retail price of $2.99, it is about twice the cost of a normal pack of gum. On the back of the Alert package, the company states the gum is "not recommended for children or persons sensitive to caffeine."

2013-03-10 02:43:30 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Researchers Discover ‘Unclassified’ Bacteria in Antarctic Lake 
http://goo.gl/sfpL1
Scientists have discovered a new bacteria unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antartica. ”We call it unidentified and ‘unclassified’ life,” geneticist Sergei Bulat of the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute told the publication. Bulat added that the DNA found during a 2012 expedition is less than 86% similar to other known organisms — a match of 90% or less is enough to constitute a new species. We just hope the follow-up expedition in May doesn’t find anything Lovecraftian lurking in the Antarctic.

2013-03-07 18:10:58 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Since the Dow continues to race upwards cracking the 14,000 mark which hasn't happened since October 11th 2007.

What was it like only five and half years ago:

Dow Jones Industrial Average: Then 14164.5; Now 14164.5
Regular Gas Price: Then $2.75; Now $3.73
GDP Growth: Then +2.5%; Now +1.6%
Americans Unemployed (in Labor Force): Then 6.7 million; Now 13.2 million
Americans On Food Stamps: Then 26.9 million; Now 47.69 million
Size of Fed's Balance Sheet: Then $0.89 trillion; Now $3.01 trillion
US Debt as a Percentage of GDP: Then ~38%; Now 74.2%
US Deficit (LTM): Then $97 billion; Now $975.6 billion
Total US Debt Oustanding: Then $9.008 trillion; Now $16.43 trillion
US Household Debt: Then $13.5 trillion; Now 12.87 trillion
Labor Force Participation Rate: Then 65.8%; Now 63.6%
Consumer Confidence: Then 99.5; Now 69.6... more »

2013-03-10 08:15:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Sights seen from March 6th San Francisco day trip with Maya Ross

2013-03-07 08:02:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Mapping the Relationship Between Income and Rent
http://goo.gl/zRkyB
On a new website, Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks, uses data from the American Community Survey on rent and income into a map of U.S. census tracts. The map is both interactive and visible at different zoom levels, so you can see highly detailed data in dense urban areas one minute, and statewide patterns the next.

Without detailed study, the maps of income and rent tend to correspond pretty exactly.

2013-03-07 07:24:48 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

As Confetti Settles, Strategists Wonder
http://goo.gl/pUj7A