Month: August 2014
Earlier this month, three N trains were fumigated for bedbugs. According to Business Insider, the MTA is now investigating a bedbug sighting on the 7 train. And though prior reports said that the insects were found in train conductors’ cushions, the tipster said, “The cart I was in was one or two carts behind the center operator cart.” Now, an MTA […]
The NYPD is investigating an incident earlier this month in which a cyclist collided with a 75-year-old jogger in Central Park. Irving Schachter was training for the New York City Marathon in the park when he was hit by the cyclist. He died from a head injury resulting from the collision on August 5th. The cyclist […]
Tomas, Chinatown. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
HOW & NOSM, Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Get ready to see more aggressive advertising from VitaCig, that stupid electronic cigarette that doesn’t even have nicotine in it. Some reality TV person called Jonathan Cheban “best known as close friend to Kim Kardashian” just signed on as a “brand ambassador.” Unlike traditional “e-cigs” which offer a remorseful cigarette consumers the delusion that it’s healthy to sit around sucking on a […]
John Pound, the artist who helped create Garbage Pail Kids, has been toiling away in relative obscurity, building randomized, computer generated comic strips since the 1980s. After purchasing his first computer, Pound became fascinated with digital art, and learned the programming language PostScript, which he still uses to create his works today. Wired writes: He coaxed […]
Boston police used mass facial surveillance technology on thousands of attendees at last year’s Boston Calling festival, Dig Boston reports this month. Employing existing security cameras, the program scanned people for recognizable characteristics, like “height, clothing, and skin color.” The documents uncovered by Dig, which have been online for nearly a year, show that the city’s partnership with IBM […]
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently measured the EKG and EEG activity of meditating volunteers practicing two different ancient techniques — Vajrayana, which is intended to excite the senses, and Theravada, which soothes and relaxes. They found that the physical response to these two practices were vastly different, Wired explains: The team picked up increased parasympathetic activity […]
Since the shut down of major cryptomarket Silk Road, the “dark net” drug market has boomed, nearly doubling in size. At the Conversation, James Martin provides a reasonable take on the increasingly professional practice of online drug distribution and its “socially beneficial implications.” For dealers, selling drugs online offers significant advantages over face-to-face retailing. They have immediate access to a huge and […]
With the high profile arrest of an unruly Spider-Man in July and other well publicized instances of bad behavior by mascots in Times Square as of recent, the NYPD is cracking down on the fuzzy hustlers and they’re starting to feel the pain. According to the AP, the police effort is starting to take a […]
