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6 Podcasts About the Joys and Perils of the Great Outdoors

Baua Electric

Starter episode: “Mark Agnew, An Adventurous Mind” Outside magazine has been a go-to source for sophisticated adventure travel writing for more than four decades, and its podcast expands on that tradition, using sound effects and first-person narration to tell immersive, gripping stories about endurance in nature.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy

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In the news media, the open letter has inspired straight reportage , critical accounts for not going far enough (“ shut it all down ,” Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote in Time magazine), as well as critical accounts for being both a mess and an alarmist distraction that overlooks the real AI challenges ahead.

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DOE BETO seeking input on Optima initiative for co-optimization of fuels and engines

Green Car Congress

How these new engines perform and how they will be integrated into new vehicle architectures will be the story of personal mobility for this half of the 21 st century. … Wagner (2015) “ Engines of the Future ” ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine. barriers to market acceptance and deployment of co-optimized fuels and engines.

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Artisanal Cement Tiles Inspired by Modernist Homes

Baua Electric

Barthélemy typically works with artisans in person to create tapestries or rugs but, since the Taliban retook power in 2021, he’s had to connect with the weavers remotely. Each piece is poured and pressed by hand one at a time,” explains Danny Mitchell, who founded Zia Tile with Leflore in 2016.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. In 1961, Hubbard wrote of his recent discovery that the E-meter requires the auditor to have “command value” over the person being audited.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

In 2016, the mall put us right up in front instead of in back and that’s been a great, mutually beneficial arrangement since then.” A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” “They were teasing, but I liked the nickname so much that I put it on my business card when I retired.”