Money to burn: The first generation of weed farmers is using Silicon Valley strategy to create today's agri-startup.
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Wednesday 31 December 2014
The weed entrepreneurs who are creating a new brand of startup farming
Money to burn: The first generation of weed farmers is using Silicon Valley strategy to create today's agri-startup.
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More adults are using weed in the states that legalized, but teen use is flat
It's Christmas for drug policy data nerds! In late December to little fanfare -- not so much as a tweet! -- the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released state-level numbers from the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
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Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic
“Sustained Skype collection” of voice, video, and messages started in 2011.
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Voice of Babe and Rugrats dies at 51
oice actress Christine Cavanaugh, who brought to life characters including Babe and Chuckie on Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats, has died aged 51. Her sister, Deionn Masock, confirmed the actress had died on 22 December at her home in Utah. Ms Masock said the cause of death was not known.
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How California's New Rules Are Scrambling The Egg Industry
On Jan. 1, all eggs sold in California will have to come from chickens living in more spacious digs. The rules have disrupted the egg industry and pushed prices up at grocery stores in California.
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The State of Secular America
Legally speaking, 2014 has not been a good year for secular Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that closely held, for-profit corporations can claim religious exemptions from laws that go against their owners' religious beliefs. They also decided that it is constitutional to kick off city council meetings with explicitly sectarian Christian prayers. Even the Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that the teacher-led, God-centric language of the Pledge of Allegiance doesn't discriminate...
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No Margin for Error
This 1957 film on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb entitled "No Margin for Error" features Jerry Unser of the famous Unser family as one of the winners.
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New Level: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes
Did you know that Monsanto tried to patent a tomato that had no biotech traits? Now, the European Patent Office has revoked Monsanto’s fraudulent patent.
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Woman at Walmart Is Accidentally Shot Dead by 2-Year-Old Son
The 29-year-old mother was shopping with her 2-year-old boy and young relatives in Hayden, Idaho, when the boy found a gun in her purse and it discharged once, officials said.
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Is There Anything Left to Paint?
Peter Schjeldahl on a new show at MOMA: “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” captures an art form in crisis.
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How the internet’s engineers are fighting mass surveillance
The Internet Engineering Task Force has played down suggestions that the NSA is weakening the security of the internet through its standardization processes, and has insisted that the nature of those processes will result in better online privacy for all.
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NSA has VPNs in Vulcan death grip—no, really, that’s what they call it
VPN traffic repositories used to find keys, crack encryption of target traffic.
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Millions of Australians to Celebrate New Year's Eve as Authorities Call on Revellers to Party Safely
Millions of Australians prepare to see in the new year with spectacular fireworks displays planned across the country.
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1st grocery vending machines in Canada to be installed in B.C.
Jason Moyal is launching refrigerated grocery vending machines in high-rise buildings across Vancouver. It’s a new concept to Canada, but it’s already being used in places like England and Japan.
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Tuesday 30 December 2014
'The Convert's Song' By Sebastian Rotella
Sebastian Rotella's thrillers can seem very realistic. Maybe that has something to do with his day job. He's a reporter with ProPublica, and he's covered international security for years.
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In 'Huckleberry Finn,' A History In Echoes
Andrew Levy's searching book adds to, and comments on, the considerable scholarship surrounding an widely read and widely challenged American classic.
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Christmas at Amazon: One Man's Story
What is it like to work at an Amazon warehouse during the annual holiday rush? One Amazon warehouse employee kindly narrated the "nonstop chaos" for us over the past month. Even in normal times, the job of an Amazon warehouse employee is physically and psychologically demanding. When the holiday shopping season arrives, the company staffs up with thousands of new, temporary "seasonal" workers. A few weeks ago, one of those seasonal Amazon warehouse workers began sharing his thoughts with us...
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Can Houseplants Really Clean the World's Smoggiest City?
Kamal Meattle uses greenery to filter the filthy New Delhi air that doctors said was killing him.
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French Government Quietly Enacts Controversial Surveillance Law On Christmas Eve
Techdirt has noted that the NSA chose to release embarrassing details of its illegal surveillance of Americans on Christmas Eve. By an interesting coincidence, the French government picked the same date to enact a hugely controversial new surveillance law, which had been passed back in 2013, and will now enter into operation almost immediately, at the start of 2015. One of its most troubling aspects is the vagueness of its terms...
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Talk, Sing, Read, Write, Play: How Libraries Reach Kids Before They Can Read
This isn't your typical story time; public libraries are designing new programs to help parents and caregivers interact with toddlers in ways that will encourage future reading.
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That's it, we can never trust bankers again
It was another scandalous year for banking. Enough is enough.
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Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer
Airlines that charge fees for things like leg room, checked bags, and WiFi have a financial interest in making basic economy an intolerable experience.
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Tables for Two: The Finest New York Restaurants in 2014
In the Tables for Two column, we seek to savor all aspects of dining out in New York. Here are some of my favorite expeditions of the past year.
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Who is Mr. Bitcoin and what are his demands?
Bitcoin is sponsoring a college football bowl game this year, officially dubbed the "Bitcoin Bowl." And because sports fans love mascots, "Mr. Bitcoin" is now apparently a thing that exists. All around the game's festivities, people are posing for photos with the rotund representation of the cryptocurrency.
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Five New Year's Eve Hors D'Oeuvres
Five appetizer ideas for a great New Year's Eve party, but will also ensure that you are not stuck in the kitchen the whole time making hors d'oeuvres.
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Monday 29 December 2014
What Would Jesus Drink? A Class Exploring Ancient Wines Asks
Inside the Boston Wine School, Jonathon Alsop places empty glasses and plates of figs and cheese before a small group of students. Alsop, who founded the school in 2000, is doing a test run of a new class that poses the question: What would Jesus drink? "This is ... a cheese that Jesus might have eaten," he tells students. "It's called Egyptian Roumy — it was a cheese that was introduced to the Egyptians by the Romans. It's a sheep's milk cheese."
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Visiting a park could save your life, scientists say
City dwellers should visit parks more often and take advantage of this free and easy way to boost their physical and mental health, environmental scientists have urged.
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Tiny House Tour - SCADpad North America
Walk through the North America SCADpad in Atlanta. SCADpad is a parking lot on the Savannah College of the Art and Design campus in Atlanta that has been repurposed as a micro-housing community. Created by students, for students, three tiny homes were constructed to be no bigger than a parking space.
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House of Books
Photographer Franck Bohbot says, "This is an ongoing project. The series started in Paris then Roma. I plan to photograph Libraries in Europe, South America, Asia and North America. This is about the places that we have learned and were the books stay for decade. Paying tribute to the Architects. the light, the composition and the colors have to be coherent in all the series."
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Chris Rock Files For Divorce
Chris Rock's marriage is kaput -- he's filed to divorce his wife of nearly 20 years. Malaak Compton-Rock released a statement Sunday to People saying, "After much contemplation and 19 years of marriage, Chris and I have decided to go our separate ways." She adds, "While recognizing that this is a significant change, my children remain at the center of my life and their well-being is my top priority."
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Not Just A Man's Drink: Ladies Lead The Whiskey Renaissance
Whiskey was long considered a man's drink. But as sales of whiskey soar, it's women who are leading the new boom, thanks to a vanguard of female distillers, blenders and tasters.
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The Death of the Artist—And the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur
Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it?
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Record 2014 Freeze for Parts of UK
The lowest temperatures of 2014 for England, Wales and Northern Ireland were recorded overnight.
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Chaos Computer Club claims it can reproduce fingerprints from people's public photos
Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest association of hackers, claims it can reproduce your fingerprints from a couple of photos that show your fingers. At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club convention in Hamburg, Germany, Jan Krissler, also known by his alias “Starbug,” explained how he copied the thumbprint of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen.
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Bromeliads
You wouldn’t imagine the tropical would transport to your home, but bromeliads are a surprisingly easy slice of the rainforest.
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Using DNA to catch canine culprits — and their owners
Joe Gillmer had a problem. A big, stinky, sole-troubling problem plaguing Midtown Alexandria Station condos, where he serves as board vice president. How to put this gently? Dog, er, waste in the vestibule, in the elevator (yes, really), and — this particularly incensed Gillmer — in the garage beside handicapped parking, making life difficult for residents with physical challenges.
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A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
Non-partisan research and policy institute working on federal and state fiscal policies and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income Americans
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Unusual Light Pillars over Latvia
Close inspection shows these strange columns of light occur over bright lights, and so likely are light pillars that involve falling ice crystals reflecting back these lights.
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Sunday 28 December 2014
California Is About To Make Egg Production More Humane, By Giving Hens 70 Percent More Space
Starting next year, 15 million egg-laying hens in California and millions more providing out-of-state eggs to Californians will be required to have 70 percent more space — going from a minimum of 67 square inches each to nearly 116 square inches, about a 10.7-inch square of space per bird. California is the biggest consumer of eggs in the country, and this new regulations is part of a broader national effort to shift industry focus away from...
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10 Good Luck Foods for the New Year
As with final exams and the big game, the start of a new year has a tendency to turn even non-believers a tad superstitious. All around the world, 1/1 is a day rife with tradition and symbolic ritual.
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248 Sq. Ft. Lilypad Tiny House on Wheels
Right now I'm excited to show you this 248 sq. ft. Lilypad Tiny House on Wheels. She's new on the block, she's saucy, she has a flair for the exotic and she wants you to ask her anything.
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The truth about free will: Does it actually exist?
Daniel Dennett: I came to realize that many of the issues that philosophers love to talk about in the free will debates were irrelevant to anything important. There’s a bait-and-switch that goes on. I don’t think any topic is more anxiety provoking, or more genuinely interesting to everyday people, than free will But then philosophers replace the interesting issues with technical, metaphysical issues. Who cares? We can define lots of varieties of free will that you can’t have...
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'Fourth of July Creek' is a Gritty, Disturbing, Evocative, and Extraordinary Debut Novel
Henderson Smith’s tale of suffering and the hope of rescue in the northern West is on this critic’s short list of the year’s best fiction.
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How to Be a Victorian
Social historian Ruth Goodman sees for herself the intricacies of life in Victorian England.
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Cracking the Sitcom Code
As happens to so many of us, I was asked to write a sitcom for Croatian television. I’m an American ex-pat living in Slovenia, and I know next to nothing about Croatia, besides the fact that it’s Slovenia’s southern neighbor, a fellow ex-Yugoslav republic, and that the language resembles Slovene except with a lot more “js” in it. I am a writer of books and articles, and I used to write a lot of plays, but I’ve never written for television. So I immediately said...
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Jazz star Buddy DeFranco dies at 91
Renowned jazz clarinettist Buddy DeFranco, known for working with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday and other well-known musicians, has died aged 91. DeFranco's family said the musician died on Wednesday evening at a Florida hospital. His wife, Joyce, said his health had been poor in recent years. DeFranco, a member of the American Jazz Hall of Fame, performed at venues around the world for 75 years and also recorded many albums.
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Napa's surprise fault line triggers earthquake study of the region
When a magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit California's wine country this summer, scientists rushed to California Highway Patrol helicopters to survey the scene. The results were surprising. The earthquake tore up to the surface, producing a 9-mile-long scar that sliced through vineyards, asphalt and even homes. A buried earthquake fault had awoken along a trail never before documented or mapped by scientists, stunning homeowners who found houses spun off their foundations and broken...
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