This was forwarded to me by LTC Robert Bent, US Army, Retired SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower Written by Brian Schulformer sled (SR-71 Blackbird) driver. There were a lot of things we couldn't
I was born in 1972 to a poverty-level family in suburban Chicago. During the first few years of my life, I shared a 600 sq ft, 1 bedroom cottage with my parents, older sister and dog. As a kid, I grew
1 / 12 12-trickster-fox-final-jeff-pidgeon-pixar-wired-design The question now is what Pidgeon will do for his third effort. Jeff Pidgeon is a toy fanatic. By day he works as a story artist at Pixar,
Q: What would happen if a beloved web comic created a series of ... physics explainers? Randall Munroe began his career in physics working with robots at NASA's Langley Research Center. He is famous,
A new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication. It draws on the same insights that led to the earlier digitizations of communication and computation, but now what is being programmed is
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets. They wore protective white jumpsuits, and had to walk through air-shower…
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps,
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Forbes: Forbes Greatest Hits: Meet the hackers who sell spies the tools to crack your PC (and get paid six-figure fees) http://bit.ly/VofLio
In the shady but legal market for security vulnerabilities, a zero-day exploit that might earn a hacker $2,000 or $3,000 from a software firm could earn 10 or…
The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World How Nerf Became the World's Best Purveyor of Big Guns for Kids Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment. One day in 1952, the Corning Gla
About a year ago I built a Chrome extension called SiteChat -- the premise was simple: turn every website into a chatroom. The app was an instant success, and over the following year I watched entire
Zhang Yue, founder and chairman of Broad Sustainable Building, is not a particularly humble man. A humble man would not have erected, on his firm's corporate campus in the Chinese province of Hunan, a
By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter Published 4 October 2012 Share page About sharing Image caption, Nasa engineers weren't the only ones praying for a smooth landing when Curiosity landed on Mars I
We've got to put what where?? We now have our first program, although it doesn't really do anything except note where it begins and ends. Let's think up a simple task that will actually accomplish som
I. The Farm The word “foreign” in the name French Foreign Legion does not refer to faraway battlegrounds. It refers to the Legion itself, which is a branch of the French Army commanded by French offic
It was just a small river flowing over a dam, but to five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan it felt like a waterfall. He played barefoot under the downpour as trains passed nearby. When night fell, he would
Jun 14th 2013 S ome years ago , I sat on a stone-cut bench in a dark chamber in the catacombs of Paris wearing a headlamp and muddied boots, and listened to the strange story of Félix Nadar, the first
By Kirsty Lang BBC Radio 4 Published 23 November 2012 Share page About sharing The obsessively secretive members of an underground art collective have spent the last 30 years surreptitiously staging e
Posted by: WhoIsMcAfee , November 24, 2012 As all of my close friends know, I have not always been a teetotalling, drug fighting citizen. Prior to 1983 I was a synthesis of corporate manager and drug
On my Internship at Khan Academy 05 Jan 2012 In true Khan Academy fashion I made a video to sum up my internship, at the suggestion of our lead developer Bengineer Kamens . I was not very good at emul
On 13 June 1944, a week after the allied invasion of Normandy, a loud buzzing sound rattled through the skies of battle-worn London. The source of the sound was a newly developed German instrument of
Reaching elite status levels can seem like an unattainable goal for "regular" customers who don't live on the road. ButScott McCartney joins The News Hub. with the tricks and cheap ways to become airl
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It is morning. I am at the airport and have just boarded the plane . The man I climb over to reach my window seat looks crazy to my sleepy eyes. The kind of crazy that might lead to some type of psych
The storyteller Did it all happen exactly this way? I start wondering when, during our day together, Doyon tells me that he misled a German reporter who had ventured across the Atlantic to meet him. T
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By Chloe Hadjimatheou BBC World Service Published 7 December 2012 Share page About sharing In 1987 a West German teenager shocked the world, by flying through Soviet air defences to land a Cessna aero
Underwater cameras showed the escaping oil in graphic detail. Oceaneeering When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20, 2010, 11 workers tragically lost the
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startupideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you haveyourself
When I Was a New York Times Restaurant Critic ... Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Perla, one of Frank Bruni's cur
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Holocaust survivor tailors an American success story By , NEW YORK — Like many men, Martin Greenfield ordered a new suit when his life was about to change: He placed his order just after he was liberated from a concentration camp. In 1945, he left Buchenwald and arrived at a German warehouse, where…
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Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . July 2004 (This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2004.) A few months ago I finished a new book , and in reviews I keepnoticing words like "pr
When a man tells you about the time he planned to put a vegetable garden on Mars, you worry about his mental state. But if that same man has since launched multiple rockets that are actually capable o