by Leroy Hurt | Dec 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via The Atlantic: Mayer and Mutchler are running an experiment which works with volunteers who agree to use an Android app, MetaPhone, that allows the researchers access to their metadata. Now, using that data, Mayer and Mutchler say that it was hardly any trouble at...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Wired: Atlanta’s public transit authority has begun installing $10,000 urine detectors to try to stop people from relieving themselves in subway elevators. Apparently, MARTA — the eighth-largest public transit operator in the country — has a wee problem with...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Wired: Atlanta’s public transit authority has begun installing $10,000 urine detectors to try to stop people from relieving themselves in subway elevators. Apparently, MARTA — the eighth-largest public transit operator in the country — has a wee problem with...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 28, 2013 | Issues.Progress
Via Business Insider: Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey on fish. But the fishermen tie threads around the necks of the cormorants to prevent them from swallowing...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 28, 2013 | Issues.Progress
Via Business Insider: Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey on fish. But the fishermen tie threads around the necks of the cormorants to prevent them from swallowing...
