Imagine the world with its center at the North Pole. Asia nearly touches North America, and Europe is a short Viking’s paddle from North America too. Add in the Winter ice and all the land masses connect. The view from space. //Maps are from – Reading Teachers, Athropolis, and the National Science Foundation.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Today is International Women’s Day – celebrate and show your support
Today is International Women’s Day. Celebrate all the wonderful women in your life! Also, take some time to help support an issue: Women in the U.S. make 81 cents to the dollar men earn doing the same job. Nearly 50 years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, on average women are still paid less …
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Ice Cube on environmental architecture and gangster traffic in Los Angeles
Pacific Standard Time exhibitions featuring husband-and-wife design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames LA Times photos of the famous Eames House and the Wikipedia profile.
Media brands get the “new Pages” in Facebook, and they’re beautiful
Five more images, including the NY Times, Washington Post, CNET, and ESPN, are available. And, don’t forget about Barack Obama’s epic Facebook Page.
London Olympics this summer, 2012 – every event will be livestreamed on web and mobile
NBC has partnered with YouTube to provide its video player and livestreaming infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Part of its strategy is to broadcast every live event in some form, showing more than 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage…using (the YouTube) player to deliver livestreams on NBCOlympics.com. “We’ll also include replays of Web-exclusive events, all television broadcasts, interviews with …
Trailer for Ridley Scott’s new movie, Prometheus – released as a TED Talk
TED Talk from the future – as envisioned by Prometheus director Ridley Scott “If you will indulge me…I’d like to change the world.” In the year 2023 Peter Weyland will make a speech in Tokyo about how humanity has become the new gods, with the power to create artificial life that looks like a …
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The digital divide – newspapers are completely lost
Online advertising is booming. Already a $32 billion business, advertisers are expected to spend a full $62 billion online in 2016. But news publishers are not poised to cash in on the growth, a report released Monday by the Pew Research Center suggests. The problem? News publishers’ online advertising products simply aren’t competitive. Most tend …
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Scholastic joins the e-book revolution – new app for children’s books
The kids’ e-book market is still nascent, with e-books making up just about three percent of children’s book sales. That could change now that Scholastic, the world’s largest children’s book publishers, is digitizing much of its list and releasing an e-reading app, “Storia,” that includes a large e-bookstore and lets kids read e-books based on …
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8-bit art for the Game Developers Conference
GameSpot, the video game magazine, was at it again with the 8-Bit post-it art! Welcome Game Developers Conference 2012 to San Francisco!
Newspapers lose $25 billion in revenue – where did it go?
US newspaper publishers’ hopes that advertising revenues might be about to stabilise have been dashed by several pieces of research. An analysis of data predicts that newspapers will achieve a new low in ad sales for 2011, with revenues expected to come in at about $24 billion this year (2011) – down from the record …
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