Adrienne LaFrance
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Reporter for Digital First Media. I also report/write for @NiemanLab, @WashingtonPost, @CivilBeat. Before: @WBUR, @hipubradio. Just one more question.
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@bigmikelevine Bayer (19th century)
Words that were once trademarked: Videotape, Escalator, Heroin, Linoleum, and Laundromat.
Less than 1 ounce of Earth's rarest element is believed to exist worldwide. Scientists figured out how to measure it scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id…
Physicists Find Way to Measure Earth's Rarest Element
scientificamerican.com — Using a machine that creates beams of radioactive atomic nuclei, CERN physicists found the ionization potential of astatine Astatine occurs naturally; however, scientists estimate much less than an ounce in total exists worldwide.
Siskel and Ebert promo outtakes from the 1980s youtube.com/watch?v=OkwVz_…
Siskel & Ebert '80s Outtakes
youtube.com — Siskel & Ebert apparently weren't the greatest of friends after having done their TV show together for a few years. Witness this comp of late '80s "At The Movies" promo spot outtakes. Siskel acts drunk, Ebert acts saucy, and make sure to watch all the way through 'til the end!
Amazing. @ilind shares family letter written Dec. 7, 1941, "as machine gun fire could be heard overhead..." ilind.net/2013/05/17/dec…
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ilind.net — It was in a box of papers uncovered yesterday afternoon as I slogged through another section of a small storeroom at my parents' home in Kahala. The papers are dirty, faded, and covered with a fine layer of dust and rather old looking termite droppings and other bits of unknown origin.
Jorts = journalism shorts, right? @JustinNXT and @andrewphelps said so.
Amtrak Is Introducing Acela-Like Wi-Fi
nytimes.com — WASHINGTON - After years of criticism of the wireless service on its trains, Amtrak announced on Thursday that it has upgraded its cellular-based Wi-Fi offering using broadband technologies that will improve the speed and reliability of the Internet in its passenger cars.
Don't worry, it's just a galloping robot cheetah. youtube.com/watch?v=UBHJqn…
MIT Cheetah runs at 22 km/h, Gait transition from trot to gallop
youtube.com — No IMU, No Force Sensor, No Mechanical Spring, No Mechanical Damper Stand-alone system except for 4 22.2V Li-Po Batteries but replaced by 3kg dummy mass at 22 km/h Avg Power: 1 kW COT: 0.52 The MIT Cheetah is being developed by MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab, with funding from DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation Program.
@kvnmr Thank you. Interesting idea! Would love to track how some well-known places have been called different things over time.
"Leonardo DiCaprio’s Gatsby is obviously Jack from Titanic." tor.com/blogs/2013/05/…
The Great Gatsby is an Alternate Timeline Where Jack Survived Titanic
tor.com — "...trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago."-Jay Gatsby I'm sorry, but I think we have to discuss the elephant in the room here. While Baz Luhrmann's movie adaptation of F.Have a Story?
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