Saturday, February 20, 2010
On the nature of Luck
via telegraph.co.uk: Interesting discussion/experiment on what makes someone lucky, and how to change that luck.
Skyscraper Vertical Farm
via grinding.be: China plans to build a massive vertical farm. In the city. And it's planned to look pretty.
Scrapheap Transhumanism
via h+: Lepht Anonym implants himself with RFIDs & sensors. Why? Because someone has to!
"Performance Murder" profile
via Slate: Joseph Stack, latest in a long line of nutjobs, flew his plane into an IRS building and killed people, including himself. Apparently to "make them pay." Good (if brief) analysis of his manifesto, including comparisons to other performance murderers.
Govt. Poisoning during Prohibition
via Slate: The U.S. government added poison to industrial supplies of various alcohols that were frequently stolen during prohibition. By some estimates 10,000 people died from these poisons during the pro-temperance heydey.
China's "Yi Zu"
China's Ant Tribes: Roughly 1 million recent university graduates working for minimum wage, living in squalid conditions on the outskirts of urban centers. Powder-keg possibilities.
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