Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Disaster stories involving the Internet of Things are all the rage. They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation systems. A particularly vivid and realistic one, near-future fiction published last month in New York Magazine, described a cyberattack on New York that involved hacking of cars, the water system,…
Since the Australian government launched its ‘No jab no pay’ campaign on 1 January 2016, thousands of children have been vaccinated for the first time, as parents who previously refused to immunise their babies faced family payment cuts of up to $15,000 a year. In just seven months, 5,738 extra children have now been vaccinated,…
Where all that Olympic money goes Its members call it, with an almost religious conviction, “the Olympic Movement,” or “the Movement” for short, always capitalized. At the very top of “the Movement” sits the International Olympic Committee, a nonprofit run by a “volunteer” president who gets an annual “allowance” of $251,000 and lives rent-free in…
FOSHAN, China—In a steamy room full of small appliances, Zhao Guoyao frowned over a pot of rice. Mr. Zhao, a product manager at appliance giant Midea Group, 000333 1.01 %wants to make a better rice cooker. It is one small part of a nationwide push to make quality goods for a burgeoning middle class, a process that will help…
Scott Silverthorne built a reputation as a civic pillar of Fairfax City, Va., over three decades, helping bring a park to the affluent suburb’s downtown and championing other improvements during his stints as a City Council member and mayor. But even as he was the public face of the city, police said, Silverthorne was privately…
1. When you spend so much time working you see science everywhere. Follow mudda @mjosizzle Beyonce look like the rough endoplasmic reticulum with ribosomes attached to it 9:13 PM – 2 May 2016 41,16441,164 Retweets 37,51737,517 likes 2. When someone implies women are too emotional to do science. View image on Twitter Follow Amy Remeikis ✔@AmyRemeikis I’m really…
On his physics-insider blog, Résonaances, theorist Adam Falkowski titled his latest post “After the Hangover.” He’s not talking about a party. He’s talking about particle physics—and the decline and fall of this year’s most-exciting-discovery-that-was-not. On July 29, Falkowski declared what CERN, the European organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, hasn’t yet: The Standard-Model-busting maybe-particle…
1. When you spend so much time working you see science everywhere. Follow mudda @mjosizzle Beyonce look like the rough endoplasmic reticulum with ribosomes attached to it 9:13 PM – 2 May 2016 41,17941,179 Retweets 37,51537,515 likes 2. When someone implies women are too emotional to do science. View image on Twitter Follow Amy Remeikis ✔@AmyRemeikis I’m really…
Aug. 5, 2016 9:12 a.m. ET I apologize to the world for igniting the Cargo Shorts Wars of 2016. I pitched the story to explore a debate I was having with friends and colleagues. I had no idea tensions over cargo shorts were simmering beneath the surface across this nation. Since the story published on…
Aug. 3, 2016 1:23 p.m. ET Online advertising firm Yieldbot has raised $35 million to grow its ad targeting and tracking software, the company said Wednesday. The funding round was led by new investor Staley Capital, with participation from existing investors, and brings the company’s total funding to over $60 million to date. The investment…