2014-10-03

Notes.

N/A. But I'm keeping this section here (for the time being at least).

Pathing.

• Remember when they were talking about killing Deepwater Horizon with a nuclear explosion? And remember when someone was like "the Russians did it once"? Well, here's an old video of how they did it.
• It sounds like a bad BuzzFeed listicle, but Eric Schmidt's 9 email rules are pretty good.
• Not only do you not need 8 glasses of water a day, but there's not a ton of evidence that anything over a basic level of hydration is beneficial.

Building.

• Although natural gas is cleaner than coal, its methane content means that pipeline leaks produce *really* bad greenhouse effects.
• Flextronics' new Suzhou factory.
• Ceramic 3D printing is moving forward, if slowly.

Logistics.

• Ripple Rock was an underwater mountain in British Columbia that caused a *lot* of accidents between 1875 and 1958. Then it was demolished with 1,270 metric tons of explosives, in (maybe) the biggest non-nuclear explosion on record. The explosion was filmed.
• It looks like the FCC is going to overturn the Sports Blackout Rule. Which, like, about goddamn time, right?
• DHL is officially delivering things by drone, though in a very particular setting.
• A good explanation of why cell phone voice call quality sucks.

Reflecting.

• A pretty rigorous analysis of how women are paid relative to men, and some really interesting charts showing how underrepresented women are in film.
• Derek Jeter wasn't clutch. He was just good.
• A testing lab at RPI which evaluates lightbulb lifetime & efficiency.
• A retrospective of 50 years of the Japanese Bullet train, Shinkasen.
• Americans eat a lot of pizza.
• Don Barber, of NYC's Blue Hill Restaurant, says the farm-to-table "doesn't really work."

Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.

• You've probably seen the "CE" marking on electronic devices, which indicates conformity to European regulations. Apparently there's also a "China Export" marking that's visually similar to the CE marking, and is allegedly being used in nefarious ways.
• The European Commission warned Ireland about its Apple-friendly tax codes.
• I didn't know this, but payola refers specifically to longstanding, corrupt pay-for-play schemes that record companies engaged in with radio stations.

And.

Samsung's butt robots.