Be careful in the snow! Cars Sliding & Crashing in Bountiful, UT, 400 north bountiful ut 1/21/2012 (by braby98)
Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit | TechCrunch
Next week a class-action civil lawsuit will be heard in San Jose to determine if Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit conspired to eliminate competition for skilled labor.
Science is so cool! (via Infrared Image Shows Helix Nebula in Fresh Light | Wired Science | Wired.com) The nearby Helix nebula just received the piercing infrared gaze of a giant telescope in Chile, and the resulting image reveals cold gas normally hidden among warmer star-lit material.
So much for "Don't be evil" | Google Workers Caught 'Vandalizing' Open Source Maps | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
High-ranking members of the OpenStreetMap project — an open source mapping project that competes with Google Maps — have claimed that user accounts attached to a range of Google internet addresses in India have been maliciously tampering with its data.
Science is so scary? Scientific Doomsday: Ways the World Could Actually End | Wired Science | Wired.com
2012 is sure to be filled with too many end-of-the-world jokes, and probably a fair amount of genuine fear as well.
But assuming the Mayans were wrong and doomsday isn’t on Dec. 21 this year, you may be wondering how the world as we know it might really end. We’ve collected several scientifically valid scenarios for you to worry about.
(via Mad Troll Science Monday: I Think Even PETA Will Approve - There, I Fixed It - Redneck Repairs) Finally, the solution for renewable energy (not!).
Science is so cool! Pentagon Scientists Use 'Time Hole' to Make Events Disappear | Danger Room | Wired.com
A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there research arm, managed to hide an event for 40 picoseconds (those are trillionths of seconds, if you’re counting). They’ve published their groundbreaking research in this week’s edition of the journal Nature.
Here’s a handing tip for avoiding design-by-committee (via Work Smart: Overcoming Consensus | Fast Company)
Culture Isn't Costly | Fast Company
Sage advice about corporate culture.
