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Why Talking Cars Will Be Good for Buses
via The Atlantic Cities:
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected at some point later this year to make a milestone decision on whether future cars in America will be required to come with “connected vehicle” technology. In layman’s terms, this refers to the capacity of vehicles to communicate wirelessly with one another and with fixed infrastructure (“I’m changing lanes,” “an accident just happened,” “I just slammed on my brakes”).
The concept conjures a futuristic world of chatty cars in which our vehicles might do a better job of interacting with each other than we do as drivers. But the prospect is not so far in the future. And some of the biggest beneficiaries may not be cars at all, but riders of public transit. […]
“As the bus moves through the network,” Head explains, “it broadcasts a message that says, ‘Here I am, I’m a bus. Here I am, I’m a bus. Get out of my lane.’”
(via emergentfutures)
Posted on January 29, 2013 via Futurescope with 101 notes
Source: futurescope
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Making Humans More Resilient Through Meaningful Innovation
Frans van Houten, huffingtonpost.com
What if just 20 buildings dedicated to urban farming could provide the entire city of New York with fruits and vegetables year round? It sounds like a fantasy of the future dreamed up on a Hollywood film set. But with breakthrough…
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(via emergentfutures)
Posted on January 29, 2013 via futuramb's crumbs with 18 notes
Source: futuramb
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Print your own Android
via techcrunch:
Gael Langevin wants to give you a robot. The French artist is posting 3D printer files for a humanoid robot he’s building as he completes the various parts, allowing us all to create our very own plastic helper/lover with some ABS plastic, a few Arduino boards, and some motors.
The plans for the hands are available on Thingiverse and Langevin will release more parts over the next few months. […] The robot is completely open source and all the plans will be available for download. You should be able to print most of the pieces on a home 3D printer […].
(via emergentfutures)
Posted on January 29, 2013 via Futurescope with 104 notes
Source: futurescope
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Who is Africa’s youngest billionaire?
31 year old Ashish Thakkar is Africa’s youngest billionaire. Born in Uganda, the young billionaire was just 13 when he and his family had to flee the continent to escape the Rwandan genocide. He started his entrepreneurial journey at age 15 after taking a $6,000 loan to start his first company.
The journey led him to found Mara Group which has become one of the largest information technology companies in Africa.
Full Story: CP-Africa
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Make Google Reader your Powerhouse sharing system
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Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars (39) from Universe Architecture in Amsterdam designed a one-piece building which will be built on a 3D printer. He hopes the so-called Landscape House can be printed out latest in year 2014.
This is another 3D project that suggests that this technology is not about just spare parts and tools, but that even architecture and construction will be in for a quantum leap.
(via emergentfutures)
Posted on January 23, 2013 via futuramb's crumbs with 215 notes
Source: 3ders.org
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World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
“The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said.
Full Story: RT
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There's a tumblr run by an astronaut living in space. Srsly? Srsly!
Colonel Chris Hadfield currently lives on the International Space Station. He posts pictures of his work and the earth and your wee brain will explode. colchrishadfield.tumblr.com
Canadian Astronaut, currently living in space aboard ISS as Flight Engineer on Expedition 34, to be Commander of Expedition 35.
(via emergentfutures)
Posted on January 23, 2013 via Climate Adaptation with 4,483 notes
Source: climateadaptation
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Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Rick Warren (via thearistocatic)(via quote-book)
Posted on January 16, 2013 via {M}.Tru with 30,017 notes
Source: enormousgiraffe
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Free download! Brain-Based Learning Guide
Download our Brain-Based Learning Guide to help students think critically about how they learn:http://edut.to/V4kpmh.
Posted on January 9, 2013 via from-student-to-teacher with 92 notes
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I want <3
Posted on December 29, 2012 via Everything will be okay with 108 notes
Source: weheartit.com
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And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
Posted on November 17, 2012 via twentythree : with 7,441 notes
Source: kari-shma
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri J.M. Nouwen (via kari-shma) -
I can never say what I want to say… It’s been like this for a while now. I try to say something, but all I get are the wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It’s like I’m split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can’t catch her.
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (via fragment-ed)Hilarious, but true…
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Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
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