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The next big thing? New beer can goes topless - TODAY.com
Sly Fox Brewing Company in Pennsylvania is the first American brewery to offer a solution to this firmly first-world problem with a beer can that can go topless. They’re calling it the 360 Lid.
“This technology allows the full flavor and aroma of the beer to hit the drinker’s senses,” Sly Fox’s head brewer Brian O’Reilly told TODAY.com.
The 360 Lid is basically the pull-tab top of soup can fused onto a traditional beer canister. To open it, you pull the tab up (a startling hiss of carbonation erupts as you do this) and then peel the lid away from the can, exposing a 1.75-inch-wide opening. Viola – instant beer cup!
And apparently (according to the article, anyway), not a risk for cutting your lip, although it would probably take a lot of perception-changing on that point to make this popular.
1906 patent drawing for a “life-saving suit,” duly added to history’s strangest inventions.
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"Google Glasses will impact societal behavior from the moment they arrive. As soon as you see them, you’re aware that you might be filmed. People don’t like being filmed. Yes, every smartphone can record you and take pictures. But you know when this is happening. It isn’t a constant feeling that everyone around you is filming you from every angle. You see them when they do it. Google Glasses are different. More than just photos and filming, what happens to this data?"
— Is Google Glass Bad for Society? (via world-shaker)
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Nick Taranto thinks you should cook your own dinner tonight. He even thinks you might pay him for the privilege. At 28, Mr. Taranto already has a double-Ivy education (Dartmouth, Harvard) and served in the Marines; he was a microfinancier in Indonesia and a private wealth adviser on Wall Street.
Now his professional focus is on perfecting recipes for maple-glazed salmon and Mexican lasagna — and on how his new e-commerce business, Plated, will buy, measure, cut, chill, box and ship every ingredient to your door. All the home cook has to do, in theory, is click on “order,” open a box and follow a recipe.
This ready-to-cook meal is called the dinner kit. And Plated — along with a host of similar new services, including Blue Apron, Chefday! and HelloFresh — is the latest in a stream of technological innovations and corporate interventions, from the cake mix to the cookbook app, that have long promised to relieve Americans of kitchen drudgery while retaining the flavor and cachet of home cooking.
Because “cooking dinner is really, really hard.”
I’m of a few minds on this. Personally, I’d rather take the effort to stock my pantry regularly, so that many of these ingredients don’t require a special trip to the grocery store.
On the other hand, I can see how these might be helpful for somebody who cooks for convenience but wants to try something out of their comfort zone without the risk. Also,k possibly at a lower cost than buying full containers of prunes, ras el hanout, or other ingredients that they might not use again soon.
Back on the first hand, there seems to be a lot of waste, here in terms of packaging that will get tossed out. But on the other hand, it may wind up with less food waste then may be the case otherwise.
I guess I don’t think this is the kind of service I’d use, but it adds another interesting option for home cooking for those who don’t cook too much. Rather than a delivery service, though, it would be interesting if a local small business (or farm, or farmers market stand) came up with a way to do something similar without all the plastic packaging.
While the details of how to effectively teach MOOC’s may not yet have been worked out, a recent Gallup survey shows that the demand for alternative or flexible models to college is growing.
Despite the popular narrative of recent years that a college degree might not be “worth it,” Americans still generally agree that a degree is important. But they might be likelier to pursue one if colleges were more flexible and – of course – less expensive.
That’s the impression left by a new survey by Gallup (on behalf of the Lumina Foundation), which asked 1,009 adults 18 and older what they think about the quality, accessibility and financing of American higher education.
While 38 percent of respondents without a college degree said they were likely to go back and get one, many struggle with obstacles like time and family that keep them from doing so. But they seemed to indicate that newer models (such as prior learning assessment and competency-based education) that place less weight on learning tied to a specific place and time could help more adults get back in the classroom.
“We’ve got to help them understand that their pathway does not have to follow a traditional model – that there are ways to get their traditional credential, faster,” Jamie Merisotis, Lumina’s president, said in an interview. “When you think about the rapidly rising demand for talent that we have in American society…. our ability to deliver that, and deliver it in a way that people can get access to, is going to be really important.”
» via Inside Higher Ed
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Cheese Pencils are shaped like oversized pencils, where the “leads” contain three different flavours: truffles, pesto and chilli. With the built-in grating function you can sprinkle delicious, appetizing flakes of parmesan cheese on your meal. A scale lists how many calories the portion contains.
My god. It’s brilliant.
I don’t think I would use one of these regularly, but it could be great for picnics!
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20 Everyday Things We Have Because Of NASA
Landing MSL Curiosity on Mars has caused controversy about NASA’s budget. Many people are upset that NASA’s mandate serves no practical purpose, and the money could be put to better use. Every year, NASA publishes a list of items developed because of NASA’s work. Here’s a short list from Business Insider:
Artificial limbs
Baby formula
Cell-phone cameras
Computer mouse
Cordless tools
Ear thermometer
Firefighter gear
Freeze-dried food
Golf clubs
Long-distance communication
Invisible braces
MRI and CAT scans
Memory foam
Safer highways
Solar panels
Shoe insoles
Ski boots
Adjustable smoke detector
Water filters
UV-blocking sunglasses
NASA did not invent:
Tang
Velcro
Teflon(h/t alexob)
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Lazy Whale Shark Uses Fishing Net Like “Gogurt” Tube | The Awl
Remember how grossed out your were the first time you saw one of those tubes of yogurt kids just squeeze directly into their mouths? How it was one of those moments where you were like, “Yup. There goes civilization…”? Well, this Indonesian whale shark had no problem with that at all. He’s all for convenience (via )
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
— R. Buckminster Fuller (via salmonbits)
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Tweet"You know the flying car the future promised us? Two different companies — one in the United States and one in Netherlands — announced yesterday that they had just completed first flights in two vehicles that could become the first commercially available flying cars."
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After Two Test Flights, The Race Toward A Flying Car Is On (via npr)
My inner 12-year-old rejoices. My outer 33-year old says:
1. I’ll believe it when I see it.
2. This creates far more problems than it solves.
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Subterranean public space? It (sort of) works in Montreal…
A rendering of the “Low Line,” a potential subterranean equivalent to New York City’s stunning High Line park. Fingers crossed that this comes to fruition.
Image Via: The New York Times
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theatlantic: The Myth of the Innovator Hero
We like to think that invention comes as a flash of insight, the equivalent of that sudden Archimedean displacement of bath water that occasioned one of the most famous Greek interjections, εὕρηκα. Then the inventor gets to rapidly translating a stunning discovery into a new product. Its mass appeal soon transforms the world, proving once again the power of a single, simple idea.
But this story is a myth. The popular heroic narrative has almost nothing to do with the way modern invention (conceptual creation of a new product or process, sometimes accompanied by a prototypical design) and innovation (large-scale diffusion of commercially viable inventions) work. A closer examination reveals that many award-winning inventions are re-inventions.
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet. These contributions may be just as important as the original insight, but they will not attract public adulation. They will not be celebrated by media, and they will not be rewarded with Nobel prizes. We insist on celebrating lone heroic path-finders but even the most admired, and the most successful inventors are part of a more remarkable supply chain innovators who are largely ignored for the simpler mythology of one man or one eureka moment. Read more.
An interesting read.
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
— Henry Ford (via thelittlephilosopher)
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