Penguins Playbook: Breaking Down the Crosby Powerplay

Sidney Crosby reminds me of Mario Lemieux at age 35. 

That’s not an insult. Probably not a compliment to the 24-year-old Crosby either. It’s reality. 

When Lemieux came out of retirement in 2000, he was a different player. He could no longer physically dominate opponents with his reach, deceptive speed, and 6-foot-4 frame. He had to combine what was left of those talents with his exceptional hockey IQ. 

Lemieux stayed out of the high-traffic areas in an effort to save his body and became an elite playmaker. (Goals made up over 40% of his points pre-retirement; after 2000 that dropped to 33%). 

Crosby has made a similar transition. THW’s James Conley suggested last week that Crosby should consider the perimeter style of play if he wants to stay healthy long-term. Through five games, that’s exactly the Crosby we’ve seen.

Continue Reading on TheHockeyWriters.com

The Case Against Google

For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on its hands.

Continue Reading on Gizmodo.com

Humans Began Walking Upright to Carry Scarce Resources, Chimp Study Suggests

Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simple activities that the majority of us don't question. But an international team of researchers, including Brian Richmond at the George Washington University, have discovered that human bipedalism, or walking upright, may have originated millions of years ago as an adaptation to carrying scarce, high-quality resources. This latest research was published in this month's Current Biology.

Continue Reading on ScienceDaily.com

Runner's High Motivated the Evolution of Exercise, Research Suggests

In the last century something unexpected happened: humans became sedentary. We traded in our active lifestyles for a more immobile existence. But these were not the conditions under which we evolved. David Raichlen from the University of Arizona, USA, explains that our hunter-gatherer predecessors were long-distance endurance athletes. 'Aerobic activity has played a role in the evolution of lots of different systems in the human body, which may explain why aerobic exercise seems to be so good for us', says Raichlen. However, he points out that testing the hypothesis that we evolved for high-endurance performance is problematic, because most other mammalian endurance athletes are quadrupedal.

Continue Reading on ScienceDaily.com

Antioxidant Supplements Seem to Increase Mortality, Review Shows

Previous research on animal and physiological models suggests that antioxidant supplements have beneficial effects that may prolong life. Some observational studies also suggest that antioxidant supplements may prolong life, whereas other observational studies demonstrate neutral or harmful effects. Our Cochrane review from 2008 demonstrated that antioxidant supplements seem to increase mortality. This review is now updated.

Continue Reading on ScienceDaily.com

Not Just for the Birds: Human-Made Noise Has Ripple Effects On Plants, Too

A growing body of research shows that birds and other animals change their behavior in response to humanmade noise, such as the din of traffic or the hum of machinery. But human clamor doesn't just affect animals. Because many animals also pollinate plants or eat or disperse their seeds, human noise can have ripple effects on plants too, finds a new study.

Continue Reading on ScienceDaily.com

Clinton D Francis
http://www.clintonfrancis.com/

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
http://www.nescent.org/

Proceedings of the Royal Society B
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/

The Bureau of Land Management
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en.html

Rattlesnake Canyon
http://www.explorenm.com/hikes/RattlesnakeCanyon/

Carlsbad Caverns National Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_Caverns_National_Park

Pinyon pine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyon_pine

Scarlet gilia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomopsis_aggregata

Microcentrifuge tube
http://www.google.com/search?q=microcentrifuge+tube&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=AkRqT-m2OoeXiAfTldWVCg&ved=0CFsQsAQ&biw=1207&bih=671

din
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/din

Western Scrub Jay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Scrub_Jay

Catherine Ortega
http://www.weedcenter.org/dodworkshop/2009/bio/Ortega_bio.pdf

Alexander Cruz
http://ebio.colorado.edu/index.php/people-faculty?view=employee&id=9

Nathan Kleist
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/nathan-kleist/

Cute! Look at the Robots Amazon Just Bought for $775 Million. (Video)

Number 5 is alive! 

Yesterday, Amazon announced it paid $775 million in cash for Kiva Systems, the maker of little orange robots that help automate warehouses. 

Today, a video of Kiva’s CEO Mick Mountz, who appeared at a Wired business conference, was being passed around the Twitter-verse.

Continue Reading on AllThingsD.com 

KIVA Systems
http://www.kivasystems.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_Systems

Burberry Prorsum Fall 2012 Menswear

Day One of the Milan menswear shows and it's already obvious: Fall 2012 is the Season of the Suit. And designers will rise or fall on how they interpret this staple of the masculine wardrobe. As an urban evolution of the military uniform, the suit stands for security in a man's closet. Which means Christopher Bailey is fashion's Securicor for Fall. Not only can he draw on Burberry's military heritage and acute sartorialism, but he can also tap the seam of eccentricity that runs through the company's history—and its tradition of artisanship. He did all of that today, to great effect. The show was called The Gentlemen. Afterwards, Bailey was stressing the gentle. In particular, it was the virtues of politeness and good manners that he was endorsing. Laudable indeed—and fortunately for him, the clothes he offered by way of support were an appealing advertisement for a new kind of gentlemanliness.

Continue Reading on STyLE.com 

Burberry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burberry

Christopher Bailly
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/designerdirectory/BURBERRY/about/

sartorialism
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sartorialism

Double-breasted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-breasted

Trouser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers

Overcoats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcoat

Half belt
http://en.texsite.info/Half_belt

Dandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy

Quilting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilting

Flight jacket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_jacket

Houndstooth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houndstooth

Blouson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blouson

Flannel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannel

Knitted fabric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitted_fabric

Woven fabric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woven

Nonwoven fabric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonwoven

Artisan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan

Embroidery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embroidery

Peganism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism

Sweater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweater

Scoop neck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_neck

Parka (Anorak)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorak

Velvet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet

60TB drives made possible by Seagate's new 1TB/inch platter tech

Seagate officially announced and demoed the first hard drive technology to achieve a storage density of 1 TB per square inch. The technology could enable hard drives over the next decade to reach an unheard of storage capacity up to 60 TB for a 3.5-inch drive. Helping them to accomplish this milestone is heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); a next-generation recording technology that will replace Perpendicular Magnetic Recording currently used in hard drives. Seagate explained:

Continue Reading on 9to5Mac.com

Heat-assisted magnetic recording
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-assisted_magnetic_recording

Bally Fall 2012 Menswear

After a few seasons of pushing fashion at Bally, Graeme Fidler and Michael Herz are finding classics more their speed. It's not that their new men's collection for the Swiss label isn't stylish—it is—but honing in on the label's heritage and strongest suits is the new order of the day. Bally has a long history to draw upon, and Fidler and Herz saw to it that their presentation did just that.

Continue Reading on STyLE.com

Bally
http://www.bally.com/

Graeme Fidler
http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/designers/graeme-fidler/

Michael Herz
http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/designers/michael-herz/

Pea Coat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_coat

Calfskin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calfskin

Foil-coated

Commanding officer's coat

New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model - The Standard Model Lecture 6 (February 15, 2010)

Professor Leonard Susskind delivers the sixth lecture for the course New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model.

Fermion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion

Symmetry group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_group

Generation (or family)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_(particle_physics)

Coupling constant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_constant

Meson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson

Propagator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagator

W and Z Bosons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons

Amplitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude

Alpha particle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle

Planck mass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_mass

Scattering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering

Fourier transform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform

Ferromagnetism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetism

Spontaneous symmetry breaking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking

Explicit symmetry breaking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_symmetry_breaking

Domain wall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_wall

Playing the Fool

Francesco Clemente has decapitated playwright Edward Albee, strung up fellow artist Brice Marden by one foot, and covered his own studio assistant, Ricardo Kugelmas, with giant bees. This is no crime spree, but part of Clemente’s take on tarot cards, the centuries-old game of divining the future. And it isn’t always pretty.

 Continue Reading on ARTnews.com

New iPad: A Million More Pixels Than HDTV

Apple’s iPad could be described as a personal display through which you see and manipulate text, graphics, photos and videos often delivered via the Internet. So, how has the company chosen to improve its wildly popular tablet? By making that display dramatically better and making the delivery of content dramatically faster.

Continue Reading on AllThingsD.com

Safari Development Essential Videos - iPhone Web Applications from Start to Finish

Safari on iPhone provides a rich platform for delivering web applications that look like built-in, native applications. Get an overview of the technologies available for iPhone web applications and learn how to add advanced features such as location-base…

Optimize your website for iPhone

Custom interaction behavior

Changing Selection Behavior

-webkit-user-select

Changing Tap Highlight Behavior

-webkit-tap-highlight-color

Navigation and Sharing
-webkit-touch-callout

Text sizing

Text Scaling

-webkit-text-size-adjust

Adjusting the text size
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/AdjustingtheTextSize/AdjustingtheTextSize.html

Screen size best practise

Viewport
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/UsingtheViewport/UsingtheViewport.html

Home Screen Icon

Specifying a Webpage Icon for Web Clip
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

Create an iPhone web application

Hiding Safari User Interface Components
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

Changing the Status Bar Appearance
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

Sets the style of the status bar for a web application.
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style

Offline Storage
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/

Offline Application Cache
http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/

Storing Data on the Client
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/Client-SideStorage/Client-SideStorage.html

Online and offline events
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Online_and_offline_events

Add advanced features

Device orientation changes

Handling Orientation Events
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html

Multi-Touch support

Handling Multi-Touch Events
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html

Handling Gesture Events
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html

Location awareness

W3C Editor's Draft
http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html

Getting Geographic Locations
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/GettingGeographicalLocations/GettingGeographicalLocations.html