Mixify launches Clubcast to bring Daft Punk to your house
By Jonathan Shieber From techcrunch Daft Punk may not actually be playing at your house, but startup company Mixify has launched a new service, called Clubcast, and raised initial capital to bring DJs from around the world to your club…
Whole spicy smoked roast chicken from ‘Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook’
By Maggie Mariolis From Serious Eats Whole Spicy Smoked Roast Chicken From ‘Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook’ House Rub From ‘Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook’ This chicken won the Fourth of July. The recipe, from Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook…
Citizen scientists to resurrect defunct NASA spacecraft
By Alex Magdaleno From Mashable For the first time, NASA has agreed to work with a group of citizen scientists to resurrect a spacecraft the agency is no longer using and has no plans to use again. NASA announced that…
How Ford plans to win the future like a software company
By Jason Hiner From TechRepublic Ford has used technology to recreate itself as a 21st century car company. Now it wants to build new experiences and innovate like a software maker. When Don Butler came to Ford Motor Company at…
Here’s evidence that insanely long prison terms are a bad way to deter crime
By Corey Adwar From Business Insider A wide-ranging new report from the National Research Council on mass incarceration in the United States finds that lengthy prison sentences are not the best way to deter crime. From 1972 to 2012, the…
Authorities bust tiny dog out of hot van at Costco, 98-year-old mom out of hot car at casino
By Laura Northrup From Consumerist Shopping at Costco is pretty great, but that doesn’t mean you should bring your dog along on your shopping trip, then leave it in your vehicle with the temperature outside in the 90s. The same…
How the Caribbean plans to become a green energy powerhouse
By Will Nichols From Business Green Existential threat from climate change and high electricity costs are driving Caribbean Development Bank programme to boost clean energy investment Imagine a storm crashing through Britain, tearing down bridges and power lines across the…
Families in a frenzy over Disney’s ‘Frozen’
By TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press From Seattlepi ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — For the Calder family, the “Frozen” frenzy began when the Disney movie came out in late 2013 and they took their 7-year-old daughter Caroline to see it in…
This Hungarian-American mathematician may have been smarter than Einstein
By Gus Lubin And Andy Kiersz From Business Insider Some would claim the smartest person of the 20th century worked down the hall from Albert Einstein at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. John von Neumann, born in Budapest in 1903…
Toppa top 5: The Caribbean’s best book festivals
From Large Up If you just bumped into your favorite author on your favorite Caribbean beach, it may not be a coincidence. In recent years the springtime calendar in the islands has filled up with literary festivals drawing renowned authors…
