Maybe you want to help others. Maybe you long to lend a hand. But you're not sure where and you're not sure how and you don't...
Maker Mom Builds Cookie-Cutter Empire With 3-D Printers
Label: TechnologyAthey Moravetz is doing some tasty work with her 3-D printers.
The video game designer has worked on PlayStation games like Resistance Retribution and Uncharted Golden Abyss. She's also a self-described "jack-of-all-trades," skilled with 3-D modeling tools like Maya, and knows how to design compelling characters with them.
After having two children she decided to work from home, and in addition...
‘Walking Dead’ Showrunner Glen Mazzara Leaving
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Glen Mazzara, who led AMC‘s “The Walking Dead” to ratings highs after the exit of Frank Darabont, is leaving the show.The announcement came with the unsurprising news of a fourth-season pickup for the series. It continues AMC’s rocky record with its showrunners, but the network said the decision was mutual.While AMC has clashed with showrunners before over money, a person...
The Neediest Cases: The Daughter of a Sick Woman Falls Prey to a Craigslist Scam
Label: HealthSitting side by side on their living room sofa, Patricia Morales and her daughter, Katherine, could be any mother-daughter duo. Both have dark hair, dark eyes and welcoming, infectious smiles. Librado Romero/The New York TimesPatricia Morales, 62, at home in the Bronx. Her treatment for ailments like rheumatoid arthritis and hepatitis C led to depression. ...
As Shoppers Hop From Tablet to PC to Phone, Retailers Try to Adapt
Label: BusinessJim Wilson/The New York TimesShoppers often visit ModCloth, a Web site that sells women’s clothes, on their phones but return on a different kind of device to buy something, said Sarah Rose, a vice president at ModCloth. Ryan O’Neil, a Connecticut government employee, was in the market to buy a digital weather station this month. His wife researched options on their iPad, but even though she found...
Dec
21
A defiant NRA calls for armed guards in every school
Label: World WASHINGTON -- In an angry and defiant news conference, National Rifle Assn. Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre on Friday forcefully...
Moog Updates Its Far-Out Synthesizer App for iPad
Label: Technology The iPad’s most spaced-out, most diabolically fun musical instrument app just got a big upgrade.Moog Music has added dozens of new features and a couple of new in-app purchase options to Animoog, its touchscreen synth for iOS. Updates include numerous new tones and timbres, a built-in multi-track recorder, and the ability to use the accelerometer to modulate the synthesizer by shaking and...
“Les Miserables” movie relies on close-ups for emotional punch
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – For British director Tom Hooper, the key to turning “Les Miserables” from the wildly popular stage musical to a cinematic experience both sweeping and intimate, was all in the close-up.The stage musical has left audiences around the world wiping away tears with its themes of justice, redemption and romantic and familial love. So bringing it to life on screen for fans and filmgoers...
Stigma Fading, Marijuana Common in California
Label: HealthJim Wilson/The New York TimesAt a San Francisco concert in 2010, marijuana use was general while signatures were collected for a measure to decriminalize it. LOS ANGELES — Let Colorado and Washington be the marijuana trailblazers. Let them struggle with the messy details of what it means to actually legalize the drug. Marijuana is, as a practical matter, already legal in much of California. ...
Dec
20
New York Stock Exchange operator agrees to be sold for $8.2 billion
Label: World A flag flies on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange. (Richard Drew...
Spoiler Alert: First 3-D Printed Records Sound Awful
Label: Technology The needle drops and a series of high, repetitive whines come from the album. Then a crackling sound, and a muffled guitar riff. Finally, Kurt Cobain’s voice — audible, but distant and hollow, like he is singing in a tunnel with a scarf over his mouth.It’s about the worst version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” you could find. But it is awesome all the same for its totally unique medium. This...
“Gangnam Style” in line for UK dictionary inclusion
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – He has the most-watched video in Youtube history, become a pop sensation with a horse-riding dance craze that has swept the world and now Korean singer Psy may cement his place in popular culture with recognition from a British dictionary.“Gangnam Style,” Psy’s signature song, has been chosen along with “fiscal cliff” and “Romneyshambles” as some of Collins Dictionary‘s words of...
Dec
19
Robert Bork, failed Supreme Court nominee, dies at age 85
Label: World Robert H. Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination in 1987 infuriated conservatives and politicized the confirmation process...
Eagle Picks Up a Kid: Real or Fake?
Label: Technology Sometimes I feel like Peter Parker. (You know, Spider-Man.) I have real work to do, but then I hear these sirens on the internet and I must go to action.Well, what about this kid being carried away by an eagle? What can be done with this video? Here is the evidence I will present. Let me just say that I sure hope it’s fake. I would hate to have all our babies snatched away by flying eagles....
A Minute With: Jessica Chastain on “Zero Dark Thirty”
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – Jessica Chastain carries the weight of starring in one of the year’s most anticipated films, “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the decade-long hunt and eventual killing of Osama bin Laden.Critics say Chastain pulls it off seamlessly as “Maya,” based on a real-life CIA agent who played a major role in tracking down bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan.As the film opens in limited U.S....
Global Update: African Children Still at Risk of Pneumonia Despite Ceramic Stoves
Label: HealthSmall ceramic indoor stoves, such as those sold by women in AIDS self-help groups in Africa, do save fuel and cut down on eye-irritating smoke, a new study has found — but they do not save children from pneumonia. The study, published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, compared 168 households in rural Kenya that used either “upesi jiko” stoves or traditional three-stone...
Autodesk Developing CAD Software to Design, 3-D Print Living Tissue
Label: Technology Autodesk, the industry leader in CAD software, has announced it is partnering with biological printer manufacturer Organovo to create 3-D design software for designing and printing living tissue.It’s an area of interest to Autodesk, whose software runs the industrial design and architecture worlds, allowing them to expand further into new fields by helping researchers interface with...
HBO making “Game of Thrones”-themed beer
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Winter is coming – and so is a new line of beers based on HBO‘s fantasy drama “Game of Thrones.” Presumably, all will boast a full, robust head, perhaps resting on top of a spike.HBO is teaming with Cooperstown, N.Y. brewery Ommegang for a line of brews centered around the series, the New York Times reports. The first beer, Iron Throne Blonde Ale, is slated to go on sale...
Mind: A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness in Gun Control Debate
Label: Health The gunman, Adam Lanza, 20, has been described as a loner who was intelligent and socially awkward. And while no official diagnosis has been made public, armchair diagnosticians have been quick to assert that keeping guns from getting into the hands of people with mental illness would help solve the problem of gun homicides. Arguing against stricter gun-control measures, Representative Mike...
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