SOP Chart If the chart above is giving you flashbacks to your last roundtable, chances are you've been blamed for something before. Was it your fault? Doesn't matter. Others in the room are likely to start feeling angry and defensive. Arguing is likely to break out. Then finger-pointing. Then middle ...

air Compressed air cars are the ultimate romantic vision of our transportation future. A car powered by air? What could be better than that? A lot of things, it turns out. According to "Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Compressed Air Cars," a paper published in Environmental Research Letters ...

Don't do it! 4095269786_544dd1f551_o By Scott Campbell (Via Flirting with the Clouds)

Everyone understands the various categories displayed in this Venn diagram. Mental Attractiveness and Physical Attractiveness In hunting for a partner or a fling, we all known the trade-offs between beauty and brains. But we've never before seen a chart that so accurately describes the trials and tribulations ...

UPDATE: A FDA advisory panel has ruled that Protein Sciences' insect cell-based flu vaccine requires more safety tests before being made commercially available in the U.S. The panel said the vaccine appeared to be as safe and effective as more traditional egg-based flu vaccines, but there were concerns ...

SocialCycling_Graphic_600 We write a lot about upcycling ,or the practice of reusing products for new purposes to prevent waste. Now DMD Green, an environmental management consulting company, wants to make the process even easier with its new SocialCycling program, which takes items that are nearly ...

The shops furniture evokes shopping carts, in a beautifully funky way. 24_ISSEY_MIYAKE_Shinjuku04 Last week, we brought you a slideshow highlighting a new exhibit of works by Oki Sato, the founder of Nendo. Today, Nendo has announced their latest project: A hyper-sexy series of display furniture, which ...

Remember that news about Google kind of getting into the mortgage game? New news means it looks like the search giant is serious about getting into helping you buy homes--Google's quietly pulling together a real estate database. google-real-estate As part of ongoing tweaks to its real estate listings, ...

Twenty-five years ago, I decided to quit my day job as a partner and creative director for a small advertising agency, which I had started four years prior, to get back into design, from whence I came. My reason at the time was to get my hands dirty again. I was sick of the management responsibilities ...

E-readers may or may not emerge as the must-have gadget of 2010, but nearly all the devices out now have a problem--their screens only do gray scale, and move too slowly for video. But Qualcomm's got an answer for that. mirasol e-reader Mirasol, a Qualcomm subsidiary, has got an e-reader on the way ...