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Doctor Links a Man’s Illness to a Microwave Popcorn Habit - New York Times
A fondness for microwave buttered popcorn may have led a 53-year-old Colorado man to develop a serious lung condition that until now has been found only in people working in popcorn plants.
lungs  health  nytimes  popcorn 
december 2011 by saranrapjs
King Fahd Causeway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
giant causeway for fun-seeking saudi arabians plays a role in bahraini crisis<br />
“Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends,” said Toby Jones, an expert on Saudi Arabia at Rutgers University. “It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20saudi.html
bahrain  saudi_arabia  infrastructure  architecture  news  politics  wikipedia  nytimes  from delicious
february 2011 by saranrapjs
Bare-Bones Approach Lets Mexico City Embrace Winter - NYTimes.com
no central heating in mexican homes, widely used alternative option of "just dealing with it" for cold weather
weather  mexico  cold  psychology  nytimes  from delicious
january 2011 by saranrapjs
Pepsico Pushes a Star Performer - NYTimes.com
Why rounded corners? "It's easier to eat them, without the sharp corners," Mr. Vogel said. "And a lot of the scrap in the bottom of the bag was from the corners breaking off. It was just a waste."
nytimes  doritos  dark_arts 
december 2010 by saranrapjs
For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing - NYTimes.com
insane internet story resolved in real life, retailer who encourages bad reviews for more pageviews
internet  nytimes  longform  commerce  capitalism 
november 2010 by saranrapjs
Advertising - Pizza Hut Slices Prices Again to Promote Sales - NYTimes.com
Pizza Hut has always held my respect for making pizza a deal-oriented food. "The idea is to present pizza as a 'part of other favorite things,' Mr. Azula said"
nytimes  pizza  pizza_hut  business  deals 
august 2010 by saranrapjs
The Elaine Benes Look Re-appears as New York Style - NYTimes.com
none of these pictured women are particularly elaine, but i do like her style
seinfeld  nytimes  style 
august 2010 by saranrapjs
Somali Radio Stations Halt Music - NYTimes.com
“We have replaced the music of the early morning program with the sound of the rooster, replaced the news music with the sound of the firing bullet and the music of the night program with the sound of running horses,” said Osman Abdullahi Gure, the director of Radio Shabelle radio and television, one of the most influential stations in Mogadishu.

NUTS via jivko
somalia  radio  sound  politics  nytimes 
may 2010 by saranrapjs
Speed, Death and Interactive Graphics | Serial Consign
"I think what is interesting about this example in relation to the comments by Bogost is not so much that "Luge Crash at the Olympics" (the title of the piece) can be dismissed as uninformative but that the sequence of images is actually hyper-informative – the precision with which this graphic schematizes the death of a man is unsettling"
visualization  nytimes  death  journalism  internet 
february 2010 by saranrapjs
Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord - NYTimes.com
karaoke renditions of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" lead to death fights in the Philippines. Defused by the employment of gay men to calm down the fights. THIS IS NUTS (via MBS)
music  nytimes  philippines  karaoke  sinatra  crime  death 
february 2010 by saranrapjs
‘Smart Grid’ Is Making Many Households Unhappy - NYTimes.com
customers rejecting smart meters due to perceived rate faults (via aaron straup cope blog)
nytimes  energy  california  smart_meters  electricity 
february 2010 by saranrapjs
The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City - NYTimes.com
i support arbitrary lifestyle choices though this is a dumb article
nytimes  caveman  diet 
january 2010 by saranrapjs
Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
"A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one"
nytimes  physics  future  CERN  science 
october 2009 by saranrapjs
A Look at Who Naps - NYTimes.com
"Catching a few extra winks, even in nontraditional places, can have its benefits." via kathryn
nytimes  napping  this_rules  NEWS 
august 2009 by saranrapjs
The Architecture Issue - Data Center Overload - NYTimes.com
this is wild: “The past is big monolithic buildings. The future looks more like a substation — the data center represents the information substation of tomorrow.”
computers  internet  nytimes  technology  utilities  architecture 
june 2009 by saranrapjs
With Games They Invent, Artists Unleash the Athlete Within - NYTimes.com
ended up on the front page of da nytimes website for my dude greg's game "circle rules football". peep my calves
me  nytimes  games 
may 2009 by saranrapjs
Designs for the Next Millennium; Jaron Lanier - The New York Times
encoding data into vestigial dna in cockroaches to serve as a persistent archive
cockroach  bugs  archive  dna  genetics  nytimes  via:bldgblog 
april 2009 by saranrapjs
The Green Issue - The Working Forest - NYTimes.com
managing "woodlands" as an alternative to sprawl; history of new england as one of recent forest growth (and historical deforestation)
nytimes  forest  environment  planning  longform 
april 2009 by saranrapjs
Google’s Digitized Book Project Hinges on a Retro Kind of Search - NYTimes.com
despite a seemingly lame reason for doing so (publisher's rights), Google has been forced to embark on the largest real life (newspapers, trade journals, etc.) legal notice campaign to notify authors of orphaned books that they must opt in or out of Google Book Search
google  books  real_life  internet  communication  nytimes  longform 
march 2009 by saranrapjs
Article Skimmer
alternative ny times browsing method
nytimes  website  design 
february 2009 by saranrapjs
La Dolce Video - NYTimes.com
story of how the kim's video collection made it to salemi, italy (via birds666)
nyc  italy  kims  video  rental  culture  nytimes 
february 2009 by saranrapjs
Prepaid Phone Cards - Consumed - Rob Walker - New York Times
the design of prepaid phone cards; I love the company name "Total Call International"
design  phone  anonymous_aesthetics  nytimes 
july 2008 by saranrapjs

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