Let’s face it: breakups are hard. But if you could chart your progress and find proof of your survival, do you think your breakup would become any easier? Multimedia reporter Lam Thuy Vo hopes so. Since her recent divorce Lam Thuy has been tracking her progress through numbers, images and data visualizations to remind her… Continue reading The Quantified Breakup: After a Divorce, What Would Your Life Look Like in Charts?
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Thieves Steal Ingredients for a Radioactive Dirty Bomb in Mexico
The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency has some very bad news today announcing that thieves in Mexico have stolen a truck carrying dangerous radioactive materials from a hospital in Tijuana. The UN referred to the stolen materials as “extremely dangerous.” The substance in question, cobalt-60, is often used in hospitals for radiotherapy and sterilizing instruments… Continue reading Thieves Steal Ingredients for a Radioactive Dirty Bomb in Mexico
The Future Is Here: Engineering Students Discover How To Use Wi-Fi to Charge Cell Phones
In the future, cell phones will charge on air. We’re almost there, thanks to the genius engineering students who figured out how to charge cell phones with a Wi-Fi signal. Students at Duke University developed a material that captures Wi-Fi energy waves and converts them into electrical current. With this technology the students have proposed… Continue reading The Future Is Here: Engineering Students Discover How To Use Wi-Fi to Charge Cell Phones
See How the World’s Forests Have Changed Over Time With the First Detailed Global Deforestation Maps
Using images from the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey Landsat 7 satellite, researchers from the University of Maryland and Google were able to map how the world’s forests have changed since 2000. The enormous computing feat produced the world’s first highly zoomable global deforestation map, enabling us to see where deforestation is taking place at the fastest… Continue reading See How the World’s Forests Have Changed Over Time With the First Detailed Global Deforestation Maps
Researchers Break Supercomputing Record while Advancing Cancer Research
Scientists at ETH Zurich and IBM Research in Switzerland have set a new record in fluid dynamics supercomputing through its simulation of bursting bubbles. The simulation could lead to advances in kidney stone and cancer treatment as well as improvements in high pressure fuel injector technology. In collaboration with the Technical University of Munich, the… Continue reading Researchers Break Supercomputing Record while Advancing Cancer Research
Is Your State Prepared for Climate Change? [MAP]
It’s a known fact that climate change is impacting how often natural events like floods and hurricanes occur and how severe their impact will be. For this reason, it’s important that states admit to the potential disasters that could occur as a result of climate change and plan emergency responses accordingly. To help prepare for… Continue reading Is Your State Prepared for Climate Change? [MAP]
MIT Creates an Interactive 3D Shapeshifting Display Controlled by Your Physical Movement
While we’ve been able to communicate with each other visually through our phones and services like Skype, this new technology looks to take reaching out and touching someone to an entirely new form. Developed by MIT’s Tangible Media Group, inForm is a dynamic shape displayer that can render 3D content physically. It allows users to… Continue reading MIT Creates an Interactive 3D Shapeshifting Display Controlled by Your Physical Movement
Veterans Day Infographic: The State of Veterans’ Mental Health
Did you know that in 2012 there were more military deaths by suicide than by combat? Unfortunately, veterans represent 20% of the suicides in the United States despite only making up 10% of the population. To bring awareness to this critical mental health problem, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) put out this educational new infographic… Continue reading Veterans Day Infographic: The State of Veterans’ Mental Health
