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American Blog —
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Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY A strange ad from a 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics encourages Americans to embrace an “attractive future” by home-breeding huge South American toads for the US canned frogs’ legs market :(click to enlarge) The market for lickable hallucinogenic toads would have been much ...4 days ago -
YOUR NEW REALITY —
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A strange ad from a 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics (key feature story : stamp collecting!), which encourages Americans to embrace an "attractive future" by home-breed huge South American toads for the US canned frogs legs market : (click to enlarge)1 week ago -
LHC Hits 2.36 Trillion Electron Volts... So What Does That Mean?
Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds —
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The Large Hadron Collider is back up and running and already breaking records, with a 1.18-trillion-electron-volt beam. But even the basic definition of an electron volt is Latin to most.1 week ago -
Two Vectors of Avatar’s Cinematic Achievement: Affect and Space Interface
Frames /sing —
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There were two primary technological achievements that guided the transmutive possibilities that mark out what made James Cameron’s Avatar special… innovations organized around aesthetic problems, and here I just want to brush on them to give greater depth to my other thoughts about the film: Avatar: The ...1 week ago -
Best of 2009: TDoL and the Furious 15
The Days of Lore —
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Seems like it was only yesterday that I was cobbling together the TDoL best of 2008 . Yes, time flies when you’re old and surly. And, yes, I know year-end lists are everywhere, cliché, overdone and a dime a dozen—but I do love them so. These lists are difficult to make, too. I mean who has time to really absorb ...1 week ago -
Vintage Magazines Predicted a Wacky Future
Neatorama —
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(More scans at Woot!) Yes, the glorious days of publishing were characterized by whatever could grab your attention on the cover. Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Modern Mechanix led the way in eye-popping art that seemed all the more plausible because of who was publishing it. Scientists and mechanics ...2 weeks ago -
Green Tech: Green jobs outlook, hope or hype?
The Mobile Fun Blog —
Authority: 145
Is the promise of green jobs all hype, or are more and more green jobs on the way in the US? Popular Mechanics has just published an extensive report on green jobs that is mostly optimistic. At the moment, green jobs account for a minuscule proportion of US jobs–just under half of 1%. But between 1998 and 2007, ...2 weeks ago -
Friday Night!
Gerry Canavan —
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* A Canadian SF writer has come down with a tough case of good old-fashioned American justice. Stay safe, Peter. * Is Sci-Fi Wire really right about this? How can a Romero zombie movie not get a distribution deal? * Tim Fernholz fact-checks the Matt Taibbi piece I linked earlier and finds it somewhat wanting. ...2 weeks ago -
Camaro receives a Popular Mechanics Automotive Excellence Award
AutoNewscast.com —
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Camaro receives a Popular Mechanics Automotive Excellence Award Detroit — Tom Peters, executive director, GM performance cars and full-size trucks, today accepted a Popular Mechanics Automotive Excellence Award for the design of the all-new Camaro. “It’s truly an honor to receive an Automotive Excellence Award ...2 weeks ago -
A Critique of Popular Mechanics Patent Reform Article
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law —
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I applaud Popular Mechanics for tackling the under-covered issue of patent reform in Inventors Slam Patent Reform Effort. However, I disagree with some of the magazine’s assertions.Regarding first-to-invent vs. first-to-file, PM says:FTI theoretically allows an inventor to sit on an idea for years, gradually ...3 weeks ago -
Popular Mechanics - January 2010 (US)
Virtual Download —
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Popular Mechanics - January 2010 (US) English | 120 pages | PDF | 39.70 Mb Popular Mechanics is a magazine devoted to science and technology. Each issue is packed with informative articles on automotives, home electronics, science, technology, outdoors, world news, and hot-to guides. This magazine subscription ...3 weeks ago -
With Plug-Ins and Hybrids Dominant, Is Diesel Dead in the U.S.?
MixedPower.com —
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German automakers Volkswagen, Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are selling their newest “clean” diesel vehicles nationally, including in California—home of the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show—a state that, historically, with its air pollution regulations, has been hostile to diesel cars. But even the auto companies ...3 weeks ago -
Palm Pre in PC Magazines Best Tech Products of 2009
PreCentral.net —
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The Pre has maintained quite a media presence over these last 6 months: The device launched with nearly universal praise from reviewers , and has since enjoyed being named one of the most innovative tech products to be released in 2009 by publications like Popular Science , Popular Mechanic , and PC World . ...3 weeks ago -
Safest Seats on an Airplane
Scott's Take —
Authority: 123
Popular Mechanics analyzed survivor statstics of airline crashes since 1971 and answered the question, "wheres the safest seat?" Hint: First class passengers, youre doomed. Click to enlarge.3 weeks ago -
The emerging scientific consensus on the SwiftHack emails: get real, denialists
The Way Things Break —
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I: IPCC WGI firmly stands behind its unique procedures and behind the scientific community and their collective work which has been, and continues to be, the basis of unbiased, open and transparent assessments of the current knowledge on the climate system and ...3 weeks ago -
So what type of advice did you think “Popular Mechanics” was going to give you.
Funny Emails —
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{Via}{Archives: If Men Wrote advice columns.}Posted in Entertainment, friends, Guest Blogger, Insane, Interesting read, Sudhakar Muthyala, wmml Tagged: advice columns, popular mechanics3 weeks ago -
Who Didn’t See This Coming?
Ford Motor Company - digital snippets Ford F-150 text snippets —
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The hot-selling 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor just got hotter as it has been awarded 4×4 of the Year by Petersen’s 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine. This is the third award for the off-road performance truck, which went on sale in August. Since its initial world debut in late 2008, the F-150 SVT Raptor high-speed ...4 weeks ago -
Current Climategate Forecast: Cloudy, with Light Precipitation
Deafening Silence —
Authority: 114
The fallout from Climategate has begun. Below is a brief roundup of related news: Megan McCardle is regretting her initial downplaying of the Climategate emails: Over the weekend, I came in for some probably deserved criticism from Clive Crook over my initial, somewhat airy, reaction to ...4 weeks ago -
Palin Populism Is Just Another Kind Of Elitism
Jezebel —
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As Sarah Palin s "bus" tour rolls on, journalists are beginning to identify her as the leader of a new kind of populism. But this movement really just enshrines another elite. In the new New Yorker , Sam Tanenhaus writes, Polls taken last November showed that [Palin] had alienated centrists, and a majority ...4 weeks ago -
The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet [Disasters]
Gawker —
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Last month, Popular Mechanics named TechCrunchs CrunchPad Product of the Year." The unreleased tablet computer was, of course, promptly beset by delays, infighting and a legal dispute. Now its been aborted by its parent. " The CrunchPad is now in the DeadPool ," writes TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington . "The ...4 weeks ago
