2014年10月22日 星期三

2014-10-23 U.S. Spotlight

  New York Times   
12 Treasures of Europe  New York Times
Clockwise from left: Furniture at Normann Copenhagen, Mary chocolate store in Brussels and silk from Antico Setificio Fiorentino in Florence. Credit Normann Copenhagen; Mary; Stefano Ricci /ASF by Egon Ipse. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...


   


Goliath Encounter: Puppy-Sized Spider Surprises Scientist in Rainforest  LiveScience.com
Piotr Naskrecki was taking a nighttime walk in a rainforest in Guyana, when he heard rustling as if something were creeping underfoot. When he turned on his flashlight, he expected to see a small mammal, such as a possum or a rat. "When I turned on the ...


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  Engadget   
Disney rendered its new animated film on a 55000-core supercomputer  Engadget
Disney's upcoming animated film Big Hero 6, about a boy and his soft robot (and a gang of super-powered friends), is perhaps the largest big-budget mash-up you'll ever see. Every aspect of the film's production represents a virtual collision of worlds.

   

  New York Times   
Life Was a Roving Party Until I Grew Up  New York Times
If you want to meet an available man who is well dressed, showered and looking good, hang around divorce court. There is one in every town. Men shave and have their hair cut before they show up. They're working hard to win children back, save money, ...


   


Remembering Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, a 'spiritual leader for good ...  PBS NewsHour
Washington Post editor, Ben Bradlee, who was best known for leading the paper during its breaking of the Watergate scandal, died Tuesday at 93 in his home in Washington. By publishing the most controversial reports of the 1970s, Bradlee ushered the ...


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  Fox News   
Houston to pastors: Forget your sermons, now we want your speeches  Fox News
Five Christian pastors will no longer have to turn their sermons over to attorneys for the city of Houston. Instead, they will be forced to turn over their speeches related to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO). I don't mean to point out the obvious here ...


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  New York Times   
36 Hours in Naples, Fla.  New York Times
Since the 1880s, savvy marketers have been luring visitors to Naples, Fla., with the promise that this coastal town had the same healing powers as its Italian namesake. A rumor also circulated that the emerald green Gulf water was a notch above the ...


   


State Department faces criticism in uphill social media war against Islamic State ...  PBS NewsHour
Three teenage girls from Denver were detained in Germany last weekend by American authorities under suspicion of joining the Islamic State. The militant group lures recruits worldwide with a sophisticated social media operation. Margaret Warner reports ...


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Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?”  MIT Technology Review
In 1959, I worked as a scientist at Allied Research Associates in Boston. The company was an MIT spinoff that originally focused on the effects of nuclear weapons on aircraft structures. The company received a contract with the acronym GLIPAR (Guide Line ...


   

  Wired   
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist  Wired
Designer Neri Oxman sits in her “Gemini” chaise, which uses cutting-edge technologies to simulate being in the womb. It was 3D-printed by Stratasys, CNC milled by SITU Fabrication and designed with Prof. W. Craig Carter of MIT. The chaise is part of the ...


   

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