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Amazon.com: Turbospoke the Bicycle Exhaust System: Toys & Games
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For all their design innovations, railways still retain one fundamental weakness -- they put metal wheels onto metal tracks.
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
December 13, 2013 8:47 PM
At the last RIGEA steering committee meeting, Matt Hodge mentioned that NPR's Planet Money has produced an 8-part series following the commodity chain of the T-Shirt. This series explores cotton production, textile mills, sweatshops, outsourcing and in this podcast, the transportation infrastructure that moves goods globally. This podcast touches on the same topic as one of my favorite TED talks, how containerization enabled globalization.
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China becomes only the 3rd nation - and the 1st in 37 years - to land an unmanned craft on the moon as Chang'e-3 touches down Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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Ice Circle Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks 
François Arnal's curator insight,
December 15, 2013 2:05 PM
Les géographes s'intéressent désormais au land art.
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Even in the early days, Santa had his vices.The gift-bringer showed up during the 12-day winter festival known as Yule, where it was a tradi...
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The Personal Weather Station with Air qulity sensors, made for iPhone and Android, to monitor and track your environment.
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The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images, which we encourage you to explore and re-use. The release of these collections into the public...
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Thank you so much for your wonderful comments and contributions! Please note: I didn't take any of these photographs. Where possible, I have included credits, or at least a link to where the photo is from. |
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From janitor to chemist, the women of Oak Ridge worked hard and talked little.
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No pressure. But if you fail your passport will be rescinded.
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Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely? Screens obviously offer readers experiences that paper cannot. Scrolling may not be the ideal way to navigate a text as long and dense as Moby Dick, but the New York Times, Washington Post, ESPN and other media outlets have created beautiful, highly visual articles that depend entirely on scrolling and could not appear in print in the same way. Via Nik Peachey 
Kenneth Mikkelsen's curator insight,
November 28, 2013 1:53 PM
Surveys indicate that screens and e-readers interfere with two other important aspects of navigating texts: serendipity and a sense of control. People report that they enjoy flipping to a previous section of a paper book when a sentence surfaces a memory of something they read earlier, for example, or quickly scanning ahead on a whim. People also like to have as much control over a text as possible - to highlight with chemical ink, easily write notes to themselves in the margins as well as deform the paper however they choose. 
Dr. Helen Teague's curator insight,
December 8, 2013 12:03 AM
from Nik Peachey---this article compares screen reading with paper-based text 
Christy P.Novack's curator insight,
December 9, 2013 12:10 AM
A detailed paper discussing screens vs paper. Lots of other links included. There is no research paper connected with article. I did a paper on practice modalites that involved print text vs media for learning and engagement. More papers are needed out there on such topics, as technology research studies can quickly become outdated.
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What could be the worst tidal surge in six decades has swamped parts of the U.K. but not London, thanks to the miraculous Barrier. Via Seth Dixon, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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"Technically, they aren't crop circles, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they're beautiful. Simon Beck, a very talented artist from England, has unveiled his latest large-scale murals of geometric patterns in snow. Each one, which is created simply by walking through the snow and leaving behind track prints, adds a surreal element to its natural landscape. Beck walks countless miles on end to produce these mind-blowing symmetrical and elaborate designs on the soft, white bed of snow that covers acres upon acres of land." Via Seth Dixon, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
François Arnal's curator insight,
December 15, 2013 7:02 AM
Un peu de land art ou plutôt de "snow art". J'aime...
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International Business Times Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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A map with a secret, a hidden fort, and remote sensing join forces to offer clues to the mystery of the lost colonists of Roanoke Island.
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A new warning for all of us — from Easter Island
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Earlier this week, Oxford's Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful.
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The legendary 'Hanging Garden of Babylon' has since ancient times been recognised as one of the Seven Wonders of the World – but no trace of it has ever been found Via Elena Victorero 
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November 24, 2013 11:30 PM
New teory urgue about the real location of the famous garden. The studies suggests that the gardens were not ever done in Babylon, this University of Oxfor specialist signaly that after Assyria conquered Babylon in 689BC, the Assyrian capital Nineveh may have been seen as the ‘New Babylon’, which could have created the confusion. And added that Babylon land was to flat to conduct the water needed in the terraces.
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The British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from 17th-19th century books to Flickr! They're embarking on an ambitious programme to crowdsource novel uses and navigation tools for the huge corpus. |
