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What Happened To British Loyalists After The Revolutionary War?
NPR’s Rachel Martin speaks with Maya Jasanoff, a professor of British and imperial history at Harvard University, about the loyalists and what happened when they lost. » E-Mail This …read
#NPRreads: The ‘Grexit,’ Video Games And Fleeing The Rwandan Genocide
By Steve Mullis Also this week, misconceptions about slavery. And, the struggle for gay Christians trying to keep the faith. » E-Mail This …read more Via: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/03/419820837/-nprreads-the-grexit-and-fleeing-the-rwandan-genocide?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=politics
The Incredible 3D Printed Zoetrope
By Greg Kumparak Here’s a wonderfully neat project to perhaps spark some creativity as we head into this holiday weekend: the 3D printed Zoetrope. Take the concept of a flipbook
A Conservative Firebrand From The Start, Ted Cruz Always Had A Plan
By Ailsa Chang Long before Cruz was the Texas senator commandeering the Senate floor, he was a teenager reciting conservative, free-market ideology. » E-Mail This …read more Via: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/07/03/419256802/a-conservative-firebrand-from-the-start-ted-cruz-always-had-a-plan?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=politics
PicoBrew’s Zymatic Beer Making Machine Made A Brewer Out Of A Noob Like Me
By Jay Donovan PicoBrew is a beer-centered startup in Seattle, founded by brothers Bill and Jim Mitchell and Avi Geiger. The machine at the heart of their operation is The
Pegging pre-planning
By Sarah Murrell My boyfriend is interested in pegging, and while I’m totally down for this experiment, I hate hate hate the idea that there might be, well, a *mess*
Pilot In Solar-Powered Plane Sets Aviation Record
By Scott Neuman André Borschberg, flying Solar Impulse 2, set a new record of 120 hours in the cockpit on a journey from Japan to Hawaii. » E-Mail This …read
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
By Anna Escher This week in tech, we got introduced to Apple Music, learned that Microsoft and AOL will enter a partnership, and much more. These are the stories to
The Sexiest (And Last?) Job Of The 21st Century
By Barry Devlin Data scientist, according to a 2012 Harvard Business Review article, is the sexiest job of the 21st century. Given its authors, Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil,
Iceland’s Pirate Party Wins Repeal Of Blasphemy Law
By Scott Neuman The insurgent political movement, which has just three members in parliament, led the rollback of the 75-year-old law that made it a crime to “ridicule or insult”
