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Doctor Links a Man’s Illness to a Microwave Popcorn Habit - New York Times
december 2011 by saranrapjs
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
february 2011 by saranrapjs
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
“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
february 2011 by saranrapjs
Bare-Bones Approach Lets Mexico City Embrace Winter - NYTimes.com
january 2011 by saranrapjs
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
december 2010 by saranrapjs
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
november 2010 by saranrapjs
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
august 2010 by saranrapjs
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
august 2010 by saranrapjs
none of these pictured women are particularly elaine, but i do like her style
seinfeld
nytimes
style
august 2010 by saranrapjs
The Hilbert Hotel - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
may 2010 by saranrapjs
quantities of infinity via straup
math
infinity
nytimes
may 2010 by saranrapjs
Somali Radio Stations Halt Music - NYTimes.com
may 2010 by saranrapjs
“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
NUTS via jivko
may 2010 by saranrapjs
Speed, Death and Interactive Graphics | Serial Consign
february 2010 by saranrapjs
"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
The Americanization of Mental Illness - NYTimes.com
february 2010 by saranrapjs
via petracortright
psychology
world
culture
nytimes
february 2010 by saranrapjs
Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord - NYTimes.com
february 2010 by saranrapjs
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
february 2010 by saranrapjs
customers rejecting smart meters due to perceived rate faults (via aaron straup cope blog)
nytimes
energy
california
smart_meters
electricity
february 2010 by saranrapjs
Military Deluged in Drone Intelligence - NYTimes.com
january 2010 by saranrapjs
“swimming in sensors and drowning in data.”
data
war
nytimes
military
technology
january 2010 by saranrapjs
The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City - NYTimes.com
january 2010 by saranrapjs
i support arbitrary lifestyle choices though this is a dumb article
nytimes
caveman
diet
january 2010 by saranrapjs
Seen - An Art Exhibition Spurs a Fix-It Shop - Series - NYTimes.com
november 2009 by saranrapjs
fixer's collective is blowing up
friends
davidmafouda
fixing
nytimes
november 2009 by saranrapjs
Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
october 2009 by saranrapjs
"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
august 2009 by saranrapjs
"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
june 2009 by saranrapjs
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
may 2009 by saranrapjs
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
april 2009 by saranrapjs
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
april 2009 by saranrapjs
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
08banh.1-1000.jpg (JPEG Image, 1000x680 pixels)
april 2009 by saranrapjs
banh mi sandwich, unstacked
banhmi
sandwich
vietnamese
nytimes
graphics
diagram
april 2009 by saranrapjs
Answers About the Weather, Part 2 - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
march 2009 by saranrapjs
NOAA rep NYC weather questions part 2
nytimes
nyc
weather
march 2009 by saranrapjs
Answers About the Weather - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
march 2009 by saranrapjs
NOAA rep answers NYC weather questions part 1
nytimes
nyc
weather
march 2009 by saranrapjs
Google’s Digitized Book Project Hinges on a Retro Kind of Search - NYTimes.com
march 2009 by saranrapjs
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
february 2009 by saranrapjs
alternative ny times browsing method
nytimes
website
design
february 2009 by saranrapjs
La Dolce Video - NYTimes.com
february 2009 by saranrapjs
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
july 2008 by saranrapjs
the design of prepaid phone cards; I love the company name "Total Call International"
design
phone
anonymous_aesthetics
nytimes
july 2008 by saranrapjs
Can a Dead Brand Live Again? - Rebranding - River West Brands - Rob Walker - New York Times
may 2008 by saranrapjs
connecting dead brands to new products; "outpost" parallels
memory
nostalgia
nytimes
culture
doublehappiness
may 2008 by saranrapjs
Hip-Hop Outlaw (Industry Version) - Samantha M. Shapiro - New York Times
april 2008 by saranrapjs
article about the DJ drama mixtape bust from a while back
nytimes
rap
mixtapes
copyright
longform
april 2008 by saranrapjs
Variations on 'Vital': The Science of Naming Drugs (Sorry, ’Z’ Is Already Taken)
april 2008 by saranrapjs
institutionalized etymologic absurdity
nytimes
drugs
medicine
april 2008 by saranrapjs
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