This American Life (TAL) is an awesome program that Ira Glass and company have been producing for years. This week, for the first time, they ran a retraction of one of their recent stories: Episode 454, Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory. But the facts about Chinese labor conditions at Foxconn persist.
New York Times: ”Over the next few years, American astronauts will be competing for a handful of slots on the International Space Station, flying there on Russian Soyuz capsules.”
Today, April 15, is normally called “Tax Day” in the United States; it’s the day when thousands of people across the nation stand in long, long lines outside their local post offices to mail their tax returns in at the absolute last minute. This...
The so-called “uncanny valley” is a phenomenon associated with the development of life-like robotics and androids. The idea is that a poor approximation of a human or animal, something...
Are you a Call Center worker who answers Customer Service phone calls? Do you hate your job because for your entire shift you never know who’s going to yell...
This list of ways to circumvent the former Egyptian government’s gambit to block the internet was posted in multiple places a few weeks ago, but it’s still worth looking...
We’ve all done it: written that ill-conceived email / Facebook / Twitter post and hit SEND when we should have hit DELETE. That SEND button is a cruel master,...
For many years now, you’ve become accustomed to the notion that retailers track your purchases. “Did you bring your Duane Reade VIP Club Savings Card today?” the clerk will...
According to a story in today’s New York Times, Congress is on the verge of canceling the Constellation program entirely and shifting NASA’s focus away from the lunar outpost. ...