If you're working for a for-profit company, your internship is probably required to be paid.
Major philanthropy: Ford foundation $100M for art spaces in the US. If it were me, I'd target small installations / locations throughout unused urban and rural spaces rather than a couple of big galleries.
Gizmo emits vibrations that break in a stringed instrument faster
Site that translates planetary rotations into sound so you can listen to the symphony of the planets
Studying literature's effect on brain activity and coming up with theories about evolution+stories
Periodic table that lists other periodic tables - fairly clever, let me browse to some interesting tables.
Tapping on your arm as an input device, reminds me of sixth sense system. Based on vibrations in skin / bone / muscle picked up by an armband.
Online course in positive psychology (mix of self-help and academia; not for credit).
The benefits of hiring overqualified personnel, despite the risks they'll move on quickly
Exfiltrating information on life, government, and society in North Korea - by training those who temporarily leave to transmit information via cell phones.
Genome and surprising reproductive info on the famous truffle.
Underground hangouts, eateries in Paris.
Passover in the White House
Tongue-in-cheek competition for art-handlers who do all the lifting and positioning for works in museums - I had never thought about how hard it would be to put some abstract works together without instructions.
Pay caps don't cause massive talent flight (85% of executives still around after 2 years of pay caps).
The Catholic church accepts some Eastern Orthodox style congregations under its umbrella. In some of those, marriage for clergy is acceptable.
In depth look at early in-vitro scientist pioneer.
Results only work environment - ROWE. I'm a strong believer. Paying attention to what people get done rather than how long you have people "present" at work.
If you have a genuine windows box, Microsoft will give you free antivirus coverage. Trying to reduce their image as flaw-prone, which works out well for us monopolized consumers.
Towns go to extreme lengths to attract Google to build their free high-speed internet demo at their location. Stunts, youtube videos, renaming of towns, etc.
U-2 stealth spy plane gets new cameras that make it an ongoing key technology for providing imagery for warzones.
http://www.thelivingplanet.com/ - now with penguins!
Sculptures of a man on different rooftops lead people to think he's a jumper.
Small nuclear reactors coming online to power cities. As soon as someone figures out how to deal with radioactive waste awesomely, I can't get behind really large nuclear power generation capacities.
Sleep deprivation among doctors. System has improved a bit, but is still pretty extreme.
Those who talk about important topics tend to be happier than those who just shoot the breeze. Perhaps because substantive discussions lead to connections with others, while talking about the weather doesn't.
LDS-oriented -blog- pseudo publication dealing with IR. This article is about Mormon thoughts on war and peace. In-depth, well written, academic-ish.
Life-style audits on South African officials who appear to live beyond their means. Basic anti-fraud sleuthing combined with political hunts.
Making everything a one-touch kitchen appliance sells well. Sure, they're convenient, but it's not much fun, is it? (I like cooking).
Op-ed on steadily increasing demand for government services. Understandably, tax increases to pay for it lag behind.
Drug treats permanently clenched fingers can now be used for other bent organs that cause pain / problems. After 50 years of looking for something else it could do.
Words and emotions related to cancer. Battle? Triumph? Grind?
States pass legislation saying that particular issues are state issues. Somehow it seems ineffective.
One governor slashes spending rather than increasing taxes to pay for deficits.
Imputing names, ages, and social security numbers from information publicly available on social media sites. Remember - set your privacy settings to the minimum necessary and don't put information on the web you don't want certain people to see. Oh yeah, and we need some cryptographically robust standards that everyone can adopt for dealing with personal or sensitive information.
The line of command at the Pentagon if people die no longer points to personal friends, but is restored to its traditional order.
Transmitting power underwater along rivers / canals instead of overhead or underground. Seems like a good idea from the brief discussion.
How to make your own organic light-emitting diode with a basic chemistry lab.
You can now paypal someone money by bumping your smart phone against theirs. This is a nice step forward toward making it easy to squirt money, text, images, etc. at people you are in physical proximity to. Needs security to prevent putting a reader under the subway seat.
Fixing insanely broken CDC bureaucracy (introduced over 7 years during Bush tenure) in one quick push.
3d printers now able to build buildings - fuse sand with epoxy
Preserving digitally created content is a major challenge for archivists. You feel this pain any time you find an old floppy disk lying around. It gets much worse the longer the time gap is.
C-span now available online for all of archives.
Particular article about corporate bonds up for refinance leading to further economic pressure. Shows that timing is important as far as who gets bailed out and who learns to plan.
Final Fantasy 13 reviewed. Beautiful but overly scripted and sequential.
Driver ignores road warnings and follows google map instructions into a lake. D'oh!
Volunteers take it upon themselves to transfer mucho old federal video online.
Small business leader suggests that at some point after other options, you just have to fire particularly negative employees.
Some technical schools intentionally misrepresent job prospects to attract people during hard economic times.
Use much less detergent in your clothes washer.
Structured recess involves kids, eliminates fights, and is relatively inexpensive.
Sites about charitable giving
http://wisegiving.org/help_
http://charitynavigator.org/
http://www.legal-aid.org/en/
http://www.endhomelessness.
Food Sites
This one tells you what to make based on what's in your kitchen: http://www.supercook.com/
This one has a list of recipes: http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/
Here's another one with recipes, but you can only access some for free: http://www.
Awesome food chart that tells you which items to store where. Print it and put it on your fridge.
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