mobeets / intriguing-things-scraper

<p>"But [Emory University's Gregory] Berns hopes to respond with future fMRI work, which will compare brain activity in dogs being fed by automated mechanisms with that of dogs being fed by humans."</p><p> </p>

People are putting dogs in MRI machines to determine if they love us like we love them. But will they love robots, too?

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/11/what-fmri-can-tell-us-about-the-thoughts-and-minds-of-dogs/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer87987&utm_medium=twitter#.Unj5iRJCzCk.twitter

2013-11-5.1

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2013-11-5

<p>"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot hand playing rock paper scissors with a human hand -- forever" -- <a href="https://twitter.com/flaneur/status/397503991707598848">@MatthewOgle</a></p><p> </p>

You can't beat this robot at rock-paper-scissors because it detects your initial hand movement and forms its own fingers into a winning configuration before you can finish.

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/fusion/Janken/index-e.html

2013-11-5.2

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2013-11-5

<p>"...<span>more than offsetting losses in other divisions."</span></p><p> </p>

AOL's dial-up Internet business generated almost $150 million in income in the last quarter

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/05/aol-q3/

2013-11-5.3

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http://tinyletter.com/realfuture/letters/5-intriguing-things-like-a-dog-in-an-mri-machine

2013-11-5

<p>"<span>So he took my computer and sort of typed a few things, and right in front of me he downloaded, like, 4,000 words from the pool of the internet."</span></p><p> </p>

Julian Assange helped MIA find words with T-E-N-T in them for a song about the plight of refugees

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/05/243083622/i-built-the-platform-myself-m-i-a-on-being-heard

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2013-11-5

<p>"<span>The camp was centered around a beautiful wild hot spring. 70 miles to the nearest phone. They erected a dome in the desert and then battled the winds while trying to erect an inflatable structure. It was Burning Man 40 years ago."</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>As always, send feedback and ideas for inclusion to amadrigal@theatlantic.com.</span></p>

Whole Earth Catalog founder Steward Brand shot this footage in the desert in 1971.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqRdGfDPCDE&feature=youtu.be&a

2013-11-5.5

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http://tinyletter.com/realfuture/letters/5-intriguing-things-like-a-dog-in-an-mri-machine

2013-11-5

<p>"Mobile is eating the world."</p><p> </p>

Analyst Benedict Evans lays out the 73-slide case for the end of the Internet, media, and technology industries as we've known them

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/11/5/mobile-is-eating-the-world-autumn-2013-edition

2013-11-6.1

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http://tinyletter.com/realfuture/letters/they-cloned-john-muir-s-sequoia-and-4-other-intriguing-things

2013-11-6

<p>"<span>The institution with the most to gain is the Internal Revenue Service."</span></p><p> </p>

Steven Levy's 1994 Wired article on digital currency, including a swath of defunct BitCoin wannabes.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/emoney_pr.html

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2013-11-6

<p>"<span>David Milarch of the <a href="http://www.ancienttreearchive.org/">Archangel Ancient Tree Archive</a>, the group cloning the trees, says the clones are living links to Muir's life."</span></p><p> </p>

A Michigan company successfully cloned a 130-year old sequoia that Atlantic contributor John Muir planted in his yard in the 19th century

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/environment&id=9315308#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-9315308

2013-11-6.3

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2013-11-6

<p>"<span>The Jawbone Canyon siphon, pictured above in </span><a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/17789/rec/1" target="_blank">a photograph from the California Historical Society Collection at the USC Libraries</a><span>, is among the aqueduct's most impressive features. Workers assembled the massive steel pipe (measuring 8,095 feet in length and up to ten feet in diameter) in 36-foot, 25-ton segments, each hauled to the work site by </span><a href="http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb2q2nb1jr/" target="_blank">a team of 52 mules</a><span>. Water falls through the tube, 850 feet to the canyon floor, generating hydraulic pressure that then forces it up and over the opposite ridge without the aid of a pump."</span></p><p> </p>

A reflection on the Rube Goldbergian engineering of Los Angeles' Owens Valley aqueduct.

http://www.lamag.com/citythink/citythinkblog/2013/09/24/citydig-how-william-mulholland-made-water-flow-uphill

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2013-11-6

<p>* Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/smc90/status/397971728153862145">Sonal Chokshi</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanUnbound/status/397790865193578496">Nathan Masters</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MattPRD/status/397933227584655360">Matt Schlicht</a>.</p>

UX Archive, a site that has collected 241 "user flows," which show how people accomplish anything with their phones

http://uxarchive.com/

2013-11-6.5

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2013-11-6