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...obsolete once engineers overcome limits to size and longevity. They’re thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs and have a greater range of colors, including true black. The New York Times said Sony’s XEL-1 was like “looking out a window. With the glass missing.” OLEDs have much superior viewing angles, so that, unlike the typical laptop LCD screen, they won’t go dark when you turn your head away from perpendicular. But the coolest aspect of all is that they...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Riding the Wave of the Future | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

Fast food chains are notoriously cagey about telling consumers how their food gets from the field to the feedlot to the drive-thru window. Hope Jahren, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, believes consumers have a right to know how their food is made. She is the co-author of a new study that sampled almost 500 fast food items from McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King and proved what many Americans may already suspect: On a chemical level, the vast majority of fast food meat derives from a single source: corn. She did this by following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food's Secret Ingredient: Corn | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...stimulus would overheat an already strong recovery. Meanwhile, the Fed, which normally stimulates the economy via the financial system, is having trouble doing so because the financial system is broken. And the usual concern that government will crowd out private borrowers isn't an issue. "The government has a window in which it can borrow very aggressively," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com "because no one else is borrowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Washington's Stimulus Plan Work? | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...looked down upon the artwork all the time [from my office window]. It’s amazing how many young skateboarders and hipsters around Harvard Square are aware of Shepard Fairey’s work...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Academics, Street Art Merge in Harvard Square | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...grace intermingled in his great brain with images of Roxanna. What a garden of delights they had begun to cultivate together, between the two of them! In what a diversity of places had the seeds of their mutual salvation been sown: in the bed, in the carriage, at the window, behind the curtains, under the bed, on the floor next to the bed...he could hardly remember the particulars anymore. Roxanna’s fingers, trailing delicately through his matted locks, were like tongues of divine fire; and her tongue, wherever it landed on Frederick’s body, felt...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY: Chapter 13 | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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