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Bar Karma gets a feature article in Wired.
Just four short months ago, a web programmer from Barberton, Ohio, named Jason Lee Holm had an idea for a TV show that sounds like something right out of a vintage episode of The Twilight Zone: What if a man, worried that his soon-to-be published book will cause a global meltdown, rectifies the problem by traveling to the future and hashing out the dilemma with a 20,000-year-old bartender?
Holm’s 22-scene outline of the concept found favor with a small online community of sci-fi fans and, as a result, the story arc will air this month in Current TV’s new series Bar Karma.
Read the full article - including comments from LOST's Damon Lindelof - here.
And don't forget: tomorrow at 10pm EST / 9pm CST Bar Karma premieres on Current TV!Bar Karma gets a feature article in Wired.
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Wired magazine presents a video with Electrical contractor 'Jack Sparx' who enjoys a shocking strangers. Wired.com editor Daniel Dumas learns about character and his Tesla coil.Wired magazine presents a video with Electrical contractor 'Jack Sparx' who... more
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Director Guillermo del Toro's new project Strain is about a mysterious virus that turns humans into horrifying vampiric creatures. The story was co-written by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Wired.com got an exclusive first look at the video trailer for the book.Director Guillermo del Toro's new project Strain is about a mysterious virus that... more
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Wired.com has always been an awesome place to get information about anything tech. But recently on the "Gadget Lab" blog, they have a new writer, Leander Kahney, who just LOVES bicycles... Don't get me wrong, I love bicycles, I'm an avid mountain biker myself, but when the last nine posts are all about bikes, its kind of annoying.
This is a blog about gadgets, not bicycles. Other writers have posted about bicycles, but this just borders on spam.
Anyone else read gadget lab and are upset about this?
p.s anyone a mountain biker?Wired.com has always been an awesome place to get information about anything tech. But... more
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Trees in western North America are dying at faster and faster rates, and climate change is likely to blame.
The mounting deaths could fundamentally transform Western forests because tree reproduction hasn’t increased to offset losses, according to a new study published Thursday in Science. New seedlings aren’t rising quickly enough to fill the gaps.
“If current trends continue, forests will become sparser over time,” co-author Philip van Mantgem, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a press conference call. This would be a setback in the fight against global warming because thinner forests with small, young trees store less carbon, so more heat-trapping carbon dioxide would cycle into the atmosphere.
A large-scale transition to such threadbare woods would have other negative effects as well, van Mantgem said. Species that depend on big stands of old growth, such as marbled murrelets and spotted owls, would have much less room to roam. And the risk of catastrophic fires would go up with more dead, dry wood lying around to fuel them.Trees in western North America are dying at faster and faster rates, and climate... more
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The first deep-sea webcam was successfully installed on the floor of California's Monterey Bay Wednesday, and Wired Science brought it to you live via Twitter and Flickr.
The Eye-in-the-Sea camera will allow marine biologists Erika Raymond and Edith Widder, pictured above, to unobtrusively observe organisms in the deep ocean. In this gallery, you can watch as the system is flawlessly installed in the bay, and within a week, you'll be able to use their camera to peer into the deep.
"That was an extremely rare experience, something that complex working the first time," Widder, a MacArthur "genius award" grantee and founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association. "Murphy took the day off."The first deep-sea webcam was successfully installed on the floor of California's... more
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If you think scorpions are scary, just take a look at this guy.
Named Schinderhannes bartelsi, it was found in fossilized form in a German quarry, and dates to 390 million years ago.
Sbartelsi2 That's about 100 million years after the extinction of the last known animal to sport what's technically known as a "great appendage" — a giant claw growing out of its head.
But there it is, right between S. bartelsi's eyes: a great appendage.
If great appendage-bearing creatures survived 100 million years longer than we realized, then maybe they didn't die out.If you think scorpions are scary, just take a look at this guy.
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Lucy, the world's most famous fossil human ancestor, has gone digital in 3-D. A new high-resolution CT scan of the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton will provide scientists around the globe with information that may help settle debates about human evolution.
The virtual Lucy could prove invaluable to scientists by giving them their first glimpse inside her fossilized bones. The scans reveal microscopic details of the internal structure of Lucy’s bones and teeth that give clues to how she moved and ate.
“These scans will ensure that future generations are familiar with Lucy,” said Jara Mariam, director general of Ethiopia’s Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, “and will know of Ethiopia’s central contribution to the study of human evolution. A virtual Lucy will be able to visit every classroom on the planet.”Lucy, the world's most famous fossil human ancestor, has gone digital in 3-D. A... more
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Paying attention isn't a simple act of self-discipline, but a cognitive ability with deep neurobiological roots — and this complex faculty, says Maggie Jackson, is being woefully undermined by how we're living.
In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Jackson explores the effects of "our high-speed, overloaded, split-focus and even cybercentric society" on attention. It's not a pretty picture: a never-ending stream of phone calls, e-mails, instant messages, text messages and tweets is part of an institutionalized culture of interruption, and makes it hard to concentrate and think creatively.
Of course, every modern age is troubled by its new technologies. "The telegraph might have done just as much to the psyche [of] Victorians as the Blackberry does to us," said Jackson. "But at the same time, that doesn't mean that nothing has changed. The question is, how do we confront our own challenges?"
Wired.com talked to Jackson about attention and its loss.Paying attention isn't a simple act of self-discipline, but a cognitive ability... more
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It's appetizing news for anyone who's ever wanted the savory taste of meats and cheeses without actually having to eat them: chemists have identified molecular mechanisms underlying the sensation of umami, also known as the fifth taste.
The much-loved but historically unappreciated taste is produced by two interacting sets of molecules, each of which is needed to trigger cellular receptors on a tongue's surface.It's appetizing news for anyone who's ever wanted the savory taste of meats... more
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ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Publishers now on board include Houghton Mifflin, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Hachette and Penguin Group USA.ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of... more
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