2014年9月23日 星期二

2014-09-24 U.S. Spotlight

  Wired   
Forget GMOs. The Future of Food Is Data—Mountains of It  Wired
Inside a squat building on San Francisco's 10th Street, packed into a space that looks a lot like a high school chem lab, Hampton Creek is redesigning the food you eat. Mixing and matching proteins found in the world's plants, the tiny startup already has ...


   

  ESPN   
Why Hope Solo Should Be Suspended From Team USA -- Immediately  ESPN
Hope Solo should not be playing right now for the U.S. Women's National soccer team. Earlier this year, the star keeper was arrested for allegedly attacking her sister and 17-year-old nephew. The police report said Solo was "intoxicated and upset," and she ...


   


Truths of a French Village  New York Times
A few weeks ago I was in France, where I've owned a village house for almost 20 years that I am now planning to sell. A real estate agent had taken a look at the property and we had made an appointment to discuss how to proceed. She swept into the kitchen ...


   


Destiny: Guide to Level 20 and Beyond  GameSpot
Finished the main campaign and want to know what to focus on next? Check out our handy guide to see what else Destiny has to offer. by Cameron Woolsey on September 19, 2014. 270 Comments · Shares · Tweets · +1. After hours of travelling across hostile ...


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10 Signs You Are Headed Toward Financial Ruin  DailyFinance
Consumers are still saving too little despite watching their lifestyles change during the recession and having only meager savings for emergencies while nearly one in four people would run out of money in 30 days, according to a NeighborWorks America ...


   

  National Geographic   
Colorful World of Birding Has Conspicuous Lack of People of Color  National Geographic
A boy looks for birds from a lookout tower in Oregon, with Mount Hood in the distance. Photograph by Kevin Schafer, Corbis. Martha Hamilton. for National Geographic. Published September 23, 2014. If you're a black bird-watcher, "be prepared to be confused ...


   


Cockroaches: The insect we're programmed to fear  BBC News
Rachel Nuwer is a science journalist who contributes to venues such as The New York Times, Scientific American and Smithsonian. Her website is rachelnuwer.com and you can follow her on twitter at @rachelnuwer. She lives in Brooklyn. Health · Science & ...


   


Why I Hope to Die at 75  The Atlantic
This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can't mean what I say; that I haven't thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world to see and do. To convince me of ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
What is biohacking and why should we care?  PBS NewsHour
“Biohacker” Dave Asprey demonstrates a headband that he claims electrically stimulates blood to reach the front of the brain to improve cognition. Photo by Jason Lelchuk. The big question about biohacking is, what is it? That's a question my editors and my ...


   


Buffett: Detroit will be better, stronger after bankruptcy  Fortune
Speaking in front of a Detroit audience on Thursday, Warren Buffett sounded an optimistic note about the struggling city's ongoing bankruptcy trial. Investing in Detroit, he says, is an increasingly appealing proposition, and will be “much better after the ...


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