Emily Davidow

From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs – legally – Times Online Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks. (tags: music mp3 p2p qtrax drm free filesharing) Update: [...]

Funky Forest, interactive ecosystem installation by Emily Gobeille and Theodore Watson Funky Forest’ is an interactive ecosystem where children create trees with their body and then divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. The health of the trees contributes to the overall health of the forest and the [...]

Tuna Troubles Though some mercury in the atmosphere occurs naturally, roughly two-thirds is produced by industrial sources — especially coal-burning power plants. It settles into the water in a form called methylmercury, is absorbed by bacteria and then makes its way up to the very top of the food chain — to humans. It is [...]

High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency. (tags: fish tuna mercury food safety health) [...]

Pixel cookies! – a photoset on Flickr I <3 pixel cookies! What a great use of a playdough extractor. (tags: food cooking howto geek recipe pixel cookies) Cory Doctorow: why personal data is like nuclear waste | Technology | guardian.co.uk We should treat personal electronic data with the same care and respect as weapons-grade plutonium [...]

uweek.org | Bionic eyes: Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision Oh yeah, my bionic lenses have arrived! (tags: science technology Bionic display tech contactlenses)

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC) from the Library of Congress Flickr Commons Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? Are we not both “a momentary fluctuation in a field of matter and energy out in space and a person with a real past born through billions of [...]

Big Think – We Are What You Think New launch aims to be YouTube for ideas. Compared in several places to Fora.tv but seems more like Dropping Knowledge at first exploration (with a healthy dose of TED & Poptech sites). All of which are great. Looking forward to seeing it grow. (tags: video ideas community [...]

The World Bank projects, news, and more… on google maps Fascinating mashup of Google Maps with World Bank data gives a visual entry point to browse their projects, news, statistics and public information center by country. (tags: maps mashup worldbank development visualization) Tiny Specks of Misery, Both Vile and Useful (our viral origins) Base for [...]

The Edge Annual Question – 2008 Oh, I look forward to these every new year. For 2008: WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY? Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your mind?” (tags: science philosophy ideas edge thinking 2008 questions)

Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007 Only Greece identified as having adequate safeguards against abuse. Endemic surveillance societies: U.S.. Russia, China; Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan. (tags: privacy politics surveillance security big-brother rights freedom) Ads for Adobe PDF Earn money for your e-books with Yahoo ads on your PDFs. Kevin Kelly is [...]