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This is awesome.

I roast coffee at home and have been experimenting a lot with ratios and techniques for brewing. I've come to realize that my favorite technique is cold brewing. For home coffee brewing, I think it's underrated. I make a batch on the weekend, and for the rest of the week I have coffee ready to drink whenever I want it. The concentrate can last a long time without any big changes in the flavor profile, and I can make coffee of varying strengths (by adjusting the water dilution). I highly recommend cold brewing at home if you like coffee and have yet to try it.

This is fantastic. Great breakdown of the different city types.

The area around Mint Plaza in SF, specifically at and around Blue Bottle, does this well. This was achieved by closing off that street to vehicle traffic, and allowing only people on foot and bikes in that area.

Actually, I think areas with more density are actually better for achieving what the author describes.

I live in SF and have both a personal commuter bike, and a BABS membership. When I factor in the convenience of not having to do any maintenance on the BABS bike, don't have to worry about fixing any flat tires, don't have to worry about theft (a big problem in SF), and can quickly dock a bike where I'm going, $88 a year feels like a very good deal. The only thing preventing me from going 100% BABS is the network of stations in SF is very sparse and located mostly downtown (see: https://twitter.com/ptraughber/status/388368763281625089).

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.gree.flopfu

This is nuts.

I remember reading this back in 2008 when Randy Pausch shared this on his site as he was fighting cancer: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/Web/People/pausch/news/index.ht...

What about a bunch of partitioned rooms with soundproof glass walls?

This is click bait.

We still have four months left!

As a fan of cooking without fire, I like this.

Based on what I saw from researching this piece, many of the drivers in the accidents are professional truck drivers, who typically have a lot more experience and more stringent driver's education requirements. It seems that in a lot of these collisions they simply don't see the cyclist (note that many are during right turns, when a cyclist would fit in the blind spot of a truck). This happens to me constantly, both on my bike and driving a car (not being able to easily see a person on bike approaching from the back right part of my car). I think protected bike lanes would help mitigate that risk in that situation, as an example. And yes, it'd be nice if we didn't require so many streets and vehicles in our dense cities. Vehicles require a lot of space and it'd be a great public benefit if we could use that space for people and figure out a different, efficient way of move people and goods around a city.

People driving cars and people riding bikes are sometimes careless, take shortcuts, and break the rules. We do a lot to deter that behavior (citations, education, public awareness campaigns) but there is always going to be some degree of that no matter how hard we try to avoid it.

What we can do, however, is better design our streets so that this behavior from both people in cars, or bikes, or pedestrians doesn't end in serious injury or death as often as it does today.

I've added some results from studies on bike lanes and paths (see bottom of the post). Please pass along any feedback you have.

It'll be interesting if this takes off.

Another company in the privatized commuting space is RidePal: http://ridepal.com/

Great idea Jonathan. I think a really simple and quick-to-build tool similar to what you suggest would be really helpful in situations like this. Right now people are eager to help out but there isn't a great place to see all of the photos and the best leads/analysis.

I found this unreal set of photos on Flickr from before and immediately after the explosion. Includes high res photos of the crowd: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hahatango/sets/7215763325244513...

It bothers me to continuously see articles with headlines like this. Just look at the comments—it gives false hope to patients and their families. As the author mentioned later in the article, there is a big difference between seeing cancer cells die in a petri dish or reduction in size of a transplanted tumor in mice and it being safe and effective in humans. I hope this succeeds, but it is a long way from a Phase 2/3 clinical trial.

Cancer research is too important to use misleading, link bait headlines to attract attention.

Growing up, I was lucky enough to occasionally join a group of scientists aboard a research vessel off the northern tip of the Bahamas. We would spend hours a day and up to two weeks at a time on the open ocean swimming with them and making visual and audio recordings of their behavior. The species they study are Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis). One of the things that has always struck me about them is how social they are – they have social circles and "cliques", similar to humans. We would observe these social networks and monitor how they change over the years. This research project is unique because they've been following this same group of just a few hundred dolphins in the wild for over 25 years. Having watched video and high frequency audio recordings of them interacting with one another in the wild, it comes as no surprise that they have "names" for one another.

Relatedly, Denise Herzing, the founder of that organization (the Wild Dolphin Project) will be speaking at TED this year (see Session 8, "Coded Meaning"): http://conferences.ted.com/TED2013/program/guide.php

Here's their site: http://www.wilddolphinproject.org/about-us/mission-vision/

Technically it'd be an oligopoly.

Another place in San Francisco that has Japanese toilets? Our company, GREE International. And we're hiring :)

http://gree-corp.com/jobs

Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram in part because of the opportunity cost Facebook faced by not getting the page views from engagement stemming from photos posted to Instagram that wouldn't have been seen on Facebook. When you consider how much engagement Facebook could have potentially missed out on, $1 billion doesn't seem so irrational, even though Instagram had to yet to monetize the service themselves.

lol!

lol.

Really useful app. Have been using it in beta for two months. Congrats to the team!

I wonder how the $20 theory of the universe has changed over time due to inflation. Was the $5 bill the equivalent two generations ago? Will a $50 be the next generation's? Also, I've noticed that very few things I purchase day-to-day fall between $15 and $20, and I've oft wondered why. And while we're at it, have you noticed how few $10 bills you see in the wild?

I wish publications would wait for Phase 2 data before publishing sensationalist headlines like this. In this case, they have yet to even complete enrollment for the Phase 1 trial.

So recursive!