How green is that shopping bag?
Are those reusable shopping bags really better for the environment? The Wall Street Journal tackled the question recently and found that the answer is "it depends":
View ArticleChaos in the prediction markets
Political prediction markets can be as wild as the stock markets have been of late, writes MSNBC.com's Alan Boyle:
View ArticleComparing smartphone OSes
Gizmodo has posted a handy Illustrated Guide to Smartphone OSes that perceptively identifies the pros and cons of all the major players.
View ArticleThe real cost of piracy?
Ars Technica did a thorough job trying to track down the original source of the oft-cited claim that theft of intellectual property costs the United States 750,000 jobs and $200 billion to $250 billion.
View ArticleLightning on the high seas
How come Columbus didn't get struck by lightning when he crossed the Atlantic? That's a question you've probably never pondered, but it actually has a pretty interesting answer, according to Slate.
View ArticleHow Current hacked the debates
Steve Myers, of the Poynter Institute, takes a brief look behind the scenes at how Current linked Twitter to TV for its "Hack the Debate" project:
View ArticleTesting ‘security theater’
Bruce Schneier has often derided post-9/11 airline security as "security theater" that's useless at nabbing all but the dumbest terrorists. Jeffrey Goldberg put his criticisms to the test, exploiting...
View ArticleDeleting tweets
If you were alarmed that Twitter apparently took away the ability to delete posts yesterday, the service's official status blog says it was only temporary. However, as ZDNet's The Social Web points...
View ArticleDoctors’ hours
Slate looks at the downside of requiring young doctors to get more sleep. Turns out that those grueling 30-hour shifts may actually help make them better doctors. In other nations with lower caps on...
View ArticleA cat’s eye view
Even pets can lifecast. Seattle filmmakers strapped a camer a to their cat Cooper that automatically snapped a photo every two minutes of wherever he went, and whatever he did.
View ArticleInventions that killed
The List Universe compiled a morbidly fascinating list of top 10 inventors killed by their inventions.
View ArticleWho’s using Twitter in Seattle
Over on The Big Blog, Mónica is building a directory of Seattle institutions and organizations that are on Twitter.
View ArticlePonzi scheme exit strategies
NYTimes.com economics editor Catherine Rampell examined the psychology of the schemers who run Ponzi schemes. Every Ponzi scheme is ultimately doomed to failure and exposure because the con only works...
View ArticleWhy we fall for financial scams
There are many of ways to respond when you've fallen victim to what may be the biggest financial fraud in history. Psychologist Stephen Greenspan, author of the 2009 "Annals of Gullibility," wrote a...
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