We’ve become a lazy, lazy people. If there’s two things that really bring us together, it’s an irrational demand for instant gratification and a desire to have as little face-to-face interaction as is humanly possible. Now on the one hand, this is probably the beginning of society’s grand demise. But on the other, doing things sucks! So we might as well give in to fate and enjoy sweet, sweet laziness while we can. Which, thanks to glasses.com’s new app, now included eyewear shopping.
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NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-Behind (Stereo-B) spacecraft captured this stunning image of a super coronal mass ejection. The little bright dot to the right is Mercury.
(Credit: NASA/Stereo-B)
As expected, the sun expelled a mega coronal mass ejection, giving observers one heck of a light show.
On Sunday night at 11:24 p.m. PT, the CME shot out of the sun’s northwest limb (around active region 1794) at about 715 miles per second, or about 2,574,000 miles per hour. NASA considers that rate “a fairly fast speed” for this event.
Fortunately, it seems unlikely the CME’s countless tons of solar particles will cause any harm to the majority of satellites orbiting Earth, or to electronics on the Blue Marble. NASA says the eruption, located on the far side of the sun, traveled t… [Read more]
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When you look up at the sky, on a clear dark night, you’re sometimes lucky enough to catch glimpses of other planets. They seem small, insignificant, surreal. Guess what? That’s exactly how we look to them. Here’s our pale blue dot, from Saturn. You might have to squint.
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President Barack Obama issued a statement Monday on Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton giving birth to a baby boy, her first child with Prince William.
Obama’s statement read:
Michelle and I are so pleased to congratulate The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the joyous occasion of the birth of their first child. We wish them all the happiness and blessings parenthood brings. The child enters the world at a time of promise and opportunity for our two nations. Given the special relationship between us, the American people are pleased to join with the people of the United Kingdom as they celebrate the birth of the young prince
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People everywhere congratulated the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their son, while Republicans vowed to rescue the child from Britain’s socialist health care system. The media’s coverage was a bit breathless, but thankfully the New York Post didn’t report the baby’s name as “Dick Gephardt.” And Mitch McConnell greeted his likely primary challenger by calling him “an East Coast con man” but stopped short of demanding he take his stagecoach full of elixirs back home. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Monday, July 22nd, 2013:
GOP ESTABLISHMENT RALLYING AROUND ENZI – Beleaguered folk hero Mike Enzi is getting some help from the little guy: Koch Industries. Politico: “Sen. Mike Enzi’s fundraising efforts have gotten off to a sluggish start this year, but he’s received support from Republican establishment and heavyweight political action committees ahead of his primary fight against Liz Cheney. The Wyoming Republican received $7,500 from Koch Industries PAC, the committee affiliated with the company owned by megadonors Charles and David Koch, according to a POLITICO review of Enzi’s second quarter campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. Other PACs affiliated with major politically active companies and trade associations who gave to Enzi between April and June include: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Time Warner Cable, Pfizer and National Retail Federation. The three-term incumbent also received support from the leadership PACs of establishment Republicans such as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sens. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.” [Politico]
CELEBS PROMOTING OBAMACARE – Oprah’s boldly going where the NFL wouldn’t dare. Sarah Kliff: “What do Oprah, Funny or Die and the Grammys have in common? All three, it turns out, have volunteered to promote Obamacare. Senior advisor Valerie Jarrett hosted a meeting Monday with a star-studded group of actors, musicians, writers and producers who have ‘expressed a personal interest in educating young people about the Affordable Care Act,’ according to a White House official.” [WashPost]
At the American Museum of Natural History’s two-week camp Capturing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Extinct Species Through Digital Fabrication, a group of teens learned the processes and tools used by paleontologists for studying dinosaur bones and digitally reconstructing them. And we got to tag along for some of it.
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With Google’s next big push for smartphone dominance coming in soon with the Moto X, it would appear that nothing looks better than cutting down their own best-selling smartphone in the low-cost Nexus 4. If LG’s wares are any sort of indicator of what a solid smartphone can do when given the right price tag, Google would be both wise and unwise at the same time to attack it – but that’s the tip coming in this afternoon, right on the heels of the official invite for this machine’s first unveiling.
What we’re to understand here through several avenues is that the price structure for the Moto X will start at a mere $299 USD off-contract. Sound too good to be true? How about a 32GB iteration coming in at either $349 or $399 off-contract? According to Gizmofusion through its anonymous contacts as well as those speaking with Android Community, there’s much truth to be had in such a model.
What would that mean for carrier models of the Motorola hero phone? More like $99 USD and $149 with two-year contracts. If 2-year contracts exist by the time the device is unveiled in full, that is.
If you’ve got a smartphone that’s made by Motorola – rugged, at least to a point – with specifications that place it squarely under the nose of the top-tier devices in the market, and you price it at half the cost, what happens? Could we be looking at a release that’ll allow Motorola to do battle with the likes of Apple’s iPhone, not to mention the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and HTC One?
Have a peek at the timeline below to keep your attention up and stick around for the full August 1st event – we’ll be there with bells on!
Moto X pricing tipped in sub-Nexus 4 snub is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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By Anita Cameron, The Mobility Resource
There are several tools that, as advocates and activists, we use to be effective in our work. Most of us tend to use what I refer to as the “nice” tools –- letter writing, meetings, action alerts and –- quite often –- policymaking, which is crafting public policy or legislation to address or resolve an issue.
In fact, in the disability advocacy world, policymaking is a favorite tool, as it is considered “safe.” It is used almost exclusively by the large “mainstream” disability organizations. Some even offer training on policymaking for their employees and other disability rights advocates.
Canonical — makers of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux — is asking geeks to collectively cough up $32 million dollars in the next month to crowdfund a Linux smartphone.
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