This Trippy Video Explains Bitcoin in Under 4 Minutes
The mysterious digital currency has spiked in value — but what is it?
Absolutely fascinating.
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The Apple iWatch
If the watch would do nothing but free me from having to enter pass codes, I would buy it even if it couldn’t tell the right time!
Have we talked about how cold out it is yet? Yeah. Here’s Montreal. Yesterday morning. Minus 36 with windchill. By photographer Mathieu Dupuis.
Attention, backers.
Pebble watch starts shipping today!
Between the birth of the world and 2003, there were five exabytes of information created. We [now] create five exabytes every two days. See why it’s so painful to operate in information markets?
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google (via inthenoosphere)
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I dig the little animated Psy on Gangnam Style’s view counter.
Also: there are over 443,000 people in this world who are no fun.
Nice touch, YouTube.
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Johnossi - Man Must Dance (Crussen Edit)
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![What Killed Us, Then and Now
The chart ranks the top ten causes of death for each year. In addition to the remarkable decline in mortality overall, it’s also noticeable how heart disease and cancer have surged to become two of America’s top killers. In 1900, cancer and heart disease accounted for 18 percent of all deaths. Today, that figure’s jumped to 63 percent. In addition to being responsible for a greater share of deaths overall, the absolute number of people being killed by these chronic conditions has also grown, from 201 people out of every 100,000 in 1900 to nearly 380 per 100,000 today.
Read more. [Image: New England Journal of Medicine, via Sarah Kliff]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m612nmx31m1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
The chart ranks the top ten causes of death for each year. In addition to the remarkable decline in mortality overall, it’s also noticeable how heart disease and cancer have surged to become two of America’s top killers. In 1900, cancer and heart disease accounted for 18 percent of all deaths. Today, that figure’s jumped to 63 percent. In addition to being responsible for a greater share of deaths overall, the absolute number of people being killed by these chronic conditions has also grown, from 201 people out of every 100,000 in 1900 to nearly 380 per 100,000 today.
Read more. [Image: New England Journal of Medicine, via Sarah Kliff]
(via reuters)
Source: The Atlantic
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