American teacher in Japan under fire for lessons on Japan’s history of discrimination.
This guy is trying to do something good and teach kids about important issues, and he’s being attacked for it. It’s shameful.
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“Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds | Ars Technica.
When I first heard about “3D Printing” I didn’t realize the impact it could potentially have. When a technology is brand new it’s often hard to overlook the limitations and see the potential, but now parts of machine guns can be created at “home”. It still takes a pretty high end printer today but it won’t for long. It’s hard to not consider what this might mean for people in the future.
Certainly this should be enough to bring some sort of widespread reform to the Catholic Church and its antiquated views on sexuality.
Fond memories of Soul Food Farm – SFGate
Sad story of a couple of independent farmers who created “chicken heaven” and produced amazing chickens and eggs that sold to some of the best restaurants in San Francisco and the bay area. Despite having the best product around they still couldn’t make the business work.
Netherlands Highways Will Glow in the Dark Starting in mid 2013 | Ars Technica
The idea of bringing technology out of the screen and into the world really resonates with me, but projects like this sound so hard to actually do on a large scale. It wasn’t easy to build the interstate highway system in the US either, though. Big ideas can come to life.
Cooperation comes easily but thinking makes us selfish | Ars Technica.
That article got me really thinking about what that means for humans as a people. Over the past 100 years we’ve increasingly moved away from collaborative working towards competitive. That’s also been a move away from fulfilling and satisfying work. As people become more selfish and greedy they pull even farther away from what actually makes them happy… connections with other people!
This is What Happens When a Squid Listens to Cypress Hill | Colossal.
Science is fun!
What Bill Clinton Wrote vs. What Bill Clinton Said – Politics – The Atlantic Wire.
This is really quite a nice read and gives you a lot of insight into what goes into turning a speech from a written form of communication to something more conversational and relatable.
The Awesome New KORG Not From KORG: Raspberry-Pi Plus MS-20 Controller, Making Dreams Reality.
We recently bought a bunch of Raspberry-Pis as little gifts for our team but I didn’t take one myself… maybe I should re-think that now! I have one of the USB controllers being used there.