Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Uranium, Me-Ranium

The Father Of The Digital Synthesizer, What Lies Beneath, Why Mass Surveillance Can't, Won't, And Never Has Stopped A Terrorist, VIDEO: When Siri Battles Netflix, No One Wins, The Curse Of Lee Kuan Yew, The Waves Of The Future May Bend Around Metamaterials
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
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The Father Of The Digital Synthesizer
priceonomics.com
Long before Stanford University was considered a technology powerhouse, its most lucrative patent came from an under-spoken composer in its music department. Over the course of two decades, his discovery, "frequency modulation synthesis," made the school more than $25 million in licensing fees.
SOMETHING SCARY
What Lies Beneath
foreignpolicy.com
In the 1960s, hundreds of pounds of uranium went missing in Pennsylvania. Is it buried in the ground, poisoning locals — or did Israel steal it to build the bomb?
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Why Mass Surveillance Can't, Won't, And Never Has Stopped A Terrorist
digg.com
Collecting irrelevant data on everyone is like drinking from a fire hose — it's impossible to sort the important bits from everything else.
'HEY'
VIDEO: When Siri Battles Netflix, No One Wins
digg.com
Netflix and Siri are both trying to be as user-friendly as possible, but they're just to accommodating to get out of each other's way.
HOW HE HAUNTS US FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
The Curse Of Lee Kuan Yew
politico.com
The leader eulogized by Obama as a 'giant of history' is being used to re-legitimize tyranny.
NEVER METAMATERIAL WE DIDN'T LIKE
The Waves Of The Future May Bend Around Metamaterials
nytimes.com
Over the past 15 years or so, scientists have learned how to construct materials that bend light waves, as well as radar, radio, sound and even seismic waves, in ways that do not naturally occur.
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JUMP BACK, WHAT'S THAT SOUND?
Image: This aerial view shows a cargo ship sailing through the Culebra Cut, during a media tour organized by Salini Impregilo, sub-contractor of the canal expansion project, in Panama City, Panama, Monday, March 23, 2015. The Panama Canal is undergoing the biggest expansion since it opened in 1914, which will allow larger Post-Panamax ships to cross the canal.
This aerial view shows a cargo ship sailing through the Culebra Cut, during a media tour organized by Salini Impregilo, sub-contractor of the canal expansion project, in Panama City, Panama, Monday, March 23, 2015. The Panama Canal is undergoing the biggest expansion since it opened in 1914, which will allow larger Post-Panamax ships to cross the canal. Credit: AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco
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