Google Custom Search Engine

Picture of the day on March 13, 2016: Kõnnu Suursoo bog in Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, Estonia.

Article of the day is Japanese battleship Asahi. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Word of the day is aposiopesis : (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).

aposiopesis , n : (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).

The Article of the day for March 13, 2016 is Japanese battleship Asahi . Asahi was a pre-dreadnought battleship built in Britain for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. As flagship of the Standing Fleet, Asahi was in every major naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The ship saw no combat during World War I, but participated in the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Reclassified as a coastal defence ship in 1921, Asahi was disarmed two years later to meet the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, then served as a training and submarine depot ship. The ship was modified for marine salvage and rescue before being placed in reserve in 1928. Asahi was recommissioned in late 1937, after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and used to transport Japanese troops. In 1938 the ship was converted into a repair ship and based first at Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, and then Camranh Bay, French Indochina, from late 1938 to 1941. The ship was transferred to occupied Si...

Kõnnu Suursoo bog in Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, Estonia..

'The Imperial March' Played On Floppy Drives Sounds Incredibly Cool He's no John Williams, but this guy has some killer talent. March 12, 2016 at 03:09PM

'The Imperial March' Played On Floppy Drives Sounds Incredibly Cool

Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned

Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned Two years ago, the flamboyant fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. Now, his closest friends, banished from his inner circle, have grown increasingly concerned. They worry that the pop-culture icon is being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion — with one suggesting more sinister notions are at play.

Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned

Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned Two years ago, the flamboyant fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. Now, his closest friends, banished from his inner circle, have grown increasingly concerned. They worry that the pop-culture icon is being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion — with one suggesting more sinister notions are at play. March 12, 2016 at 05:06PM

Spy Vs. Spies: Why Deciphering Putin Is So Hard For U.S. Intelligence How do you spy on a country when decision-making is concentrated in the mind of one man? US spooks' traditional tools — from NSA intercepts to satellite imagery to espionage — are coming up short. March 12, 2016 at 03:03AM

Spy Vs. Spies: Why Deciphering Putin Is So Hard For U.S. Intelligence

What Do The Reviews Have To Say About '10 Cloverfield Lane'

What Do The Reviews Have To Say About '10 Cloverfield Lane' ​The (sort of) sequel to 2008 found-footage monster film Cloverfield has snuck into theaters without much in the way of trailers, sneak peaks and hype. But according to the critics, it's actually pretty dang good! March 11, 2016 at 07:40PM

What is the Pax vaporizer

What is the Pax vaporizer The second generation Pax, the Pax 2, came out last year and is packed with technology. It's been referred to as "the iPhone of vaporizers," and, like the iPhone, it comes with a premium price tag — the Pax 2 will set you back $289.99. March 12, 2016 at 10:11PM

What Kind of Legal Rights Should Robots Have?

What Kind of Legal Rights Should Robots Have? Science fiction has long consider the legal rights of artificially intelligent beings. But as robots become an increasing presence in our societies and industries, questions about the role of robots in legal decisions, how laws are applied to robots, and the concept of “robot law” itself have begun to emerge. March 12, 2016 at 09:56PM

The Science and Snake Oil of Neurostimulation What if learning a skill only required donning a cap that used electric currents to tickle your brain in just the right way? It certainly is an enticing idea, one which could put an end to spending hours buried in textbooks or wasting away in corporate training seminars — but could it ever really be that easy? March 12, 2016 at 08:56PM

Can Social Media Predict Disaster Damage Better than Relief Agencies? In recent years, we’ve seen social media become a powerful tool for everything fromrevolutionaries in Egypt to first responders in New York in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Would they have made a difference for the victims of Katrina? March 12, 2016 at 08:56PM

How the Nazi Salute Became the World's Most Offensive Gesture Hitler basically invented its German roots — but its history was already filled with fraud. March 12, 2016 at 08:56PM

How Toxic Masculinity Poisoned the 2016 Election Toxic masculinity is not a phenomenon limited to American politicians, of course, but they have come to represent its consequences all too perfectly. Men and women are in a state of unprecedented flux — economic, sexual, and political — which amounts to a more or less complete reevaluation of gender. March 12, 2016 at 08:56PM

The Science and Snake Oil of Neurostimulation

Can Social Media Predict Disaster Damage Better than Relief Agencies?

How the Nazi Salute Became the World's Most Offensive Gesture

How Toxic Masculinity Poisoned the 2016 Election

The power of nonviolence Time and again, activists around the world have turned to mass boycotts, strikes and collective vigils, techniques Gandhi pioneered and practiced on the world stage with historic results. Activists for issues including the environment, corruption, refugee and immigrant rights, racial exclusion and violence are taking up and adapting nonviolent protest to meet new challenges. March 11, 2016 at 08:19PM

The power of nonviolence

Neurasthenia: The Disease That Shaped American Ideas About Health and Happiness During the 19th-century, a nervous condition shaped the way modern Americans think about health and happiness. Modern society was beginning create new wonders — or, seen differently, new things to be anxious about. March 12, 2016 at 08:41PM

Neurasthenia: The Disease That Shaped American Ideas About Health and Happiness

AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at Go for third straight time. AlphaGo has won its third game, but it will still play the two remaining matches against 18-time world champion Lee Sedol, but “the results are in and history has been made.” March 12, 2016 at 06:26PM

AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at Go for third straight time.

What Is SXSW Interactive and Why Is Fashion Suddenly All Over It? It's likely that you will hear more about Interactive than ever before. But why would fashion brands and publications, entities deeply invested in all things cool, throw their weight behind Interactive instead of music or film? March 12, 2016 at 05:56PM

What Is SXSW Interactive and Why Is Fashion Suddenly All Over It?

Daylight Saving Time is hot garbage When Benjamin Franklin proposed Daylight Saving Time — he invented it — it was a joke. These days, it's more like a practical joke we play on ourselves every single year. It's time to end this dumb prank once and for all. March 12, 2016 at 05:40PM

Daylight Saving Time is hot garbage

You Made It To The Weekend! Here's A Bunch Of Dogs Riding Turtles If you're like us, you've probably been toiling away behind the glow of a computer screen all week and need to chill out. Well, trust us, there's no better way to unwind than to watch a bunch of videos of dogs riding tortoises and turtles. Enjoy! You deserve it. March 12, 2016 at 04:00PM

Today's Best Animation: 'Disco' This video features a grand total of 1,250 paintings, all of which have been animated to showcase the beauty of dance. March 12, 2016 at 05:26PM

You Made It To The Weekend! Here's A Bunch Of Dogs Riding Turtles

Today's Best Animation: 'Disco'

Everything I Learned From ‘ReBoot,’ the 90s Kids Show That Predicted the Future Rather brilliantly, the larger concepts explored on the show were on-pulse with then-current and even future tech developments: search engines; protected IP addresses; Photoshop as a canvas for underground artists; infectious software such as trojans.

Everything I Learned From ‘ReBoot,’ the 90s Kids Show That Predicted the Future

The Powerful Enthusiasm Of Vin Diesel's Facebook Page

The Powerful Enthusiasm Of Vin Diesel's Facebook Page VinBook, as the thriving self-contained online community is called, has more likes on its Facebook page than Barack Obama, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, YouTube, Katy Perry, “The Simpsons,” “The Big Bang Theory,” One Direction, Beyonce, Coca-Cola and God.

Breast Milk Wanted

Is Twitter Making Us More Productive?

Breast Milk Wanted On this week's episode of "Reply All": The US parents desperate for access to breast milk and the unlikely solution (and complications) offered by the Internet.

Is Twitter Making Us More Productive? That question — how to measure technology’s effect on productivity, the economy, and well-being more broadly — is at the core of a major debate in economics right now.