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Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 1 week 2 days ago.
In what is possibly the first major exposé initiated through drone technology, a small unmanned craft captured evidence of environmental contamination in Texas.sUAS News reported that a Dallas drone enthusiast was testing a drone, named “Exposure,” w...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 1 week 2 days ago.
In what is possibly the first major exposé initiated through drone technology, a small unmanned craft captured evidence of environmental contamination in Texas.sUAS News reported that a Dallas drone enthusiast was testing a drone, named “Exposure,” w...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 2 weeks 2 days ago.
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Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 1 month ago.
Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announced a new system to help researchers make sense of stores of scientific papers, and potentially find the “next big thing.”The Action Science Explorer, or ASE, developed jointly by University of...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 1 month ago.
It’s been quite a month for drones. After Iranian armed forces captured one of the coveted American RQ170 stealth drones, the very same stealth drone that pierced Pakistani airspace to spy on Osama bin Laden, Wired’s Spencer Ackerman released previous...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 2 months ago.
Areal photograph of the devastation from hurricane Andrew in 1992. Steve Doig, who was a reporter for the Miami Herald at the time, used his data journalism chops to survey the damage and write a Pulitzer-prize winning expose on construction malpractice. ...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 4 months ago.
Media and culture columnist David Carr, left, meets with media desk editor Bruce Headlam, right in theMagnolia Pictures documentary "Page One."When the New York Times unveiled the porous pay wall, it showed the world an experiment to find a potential mode...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 4 months ago.
The above is a word cloud using President Obama’s Sept. 8 address to Congress. As is customary with word clouds, the more times a word occurs in a text, the larger the font size in the cloud. Even if you weren’t aware of the nature of the speech, it...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 4 months ago.
An anti-Fisk poster hung by activists in a Pilsen Thrift store.“And every morning was a requiemor the feast day of a martyr -the priest in black or red,cortege of traffic, headlightsfunneling through incenseunder viaducts. While my surplicesettled aroun...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 4 months ago.
This interactive heat map, compiled using Chicago Department of Public Health data, GIS files, and Google Fusion, shows where Children with the highest rates elevated blood lead levels in Chicago live. Data is from 2010.Chicago Department of Public Health...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 4 months ago.
This visualization was produced as part of a series about Pilsen, a Chicago neighborhood, and its struggle against pollution. Parts one, two and three of that series have been published on MentalMunition.com.
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 4 months ago.
“Decisions regarding whether or not to proceed with the above projects or other approaches to compliance remain subject to a number of factors, such as market conditions, regulatory and legislative developments, and forecasted commodity prices and capit...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
The Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago faces unique challenges in terms of environment and health. It retains some of its manufacturing base from when it was an industrial center for Chicago, yet it is primarily residential and now houses a large Latino popul...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
The Fisk Generating Station, Pilsen, Chicago.
“I have a hard time believing if these plants were located on the north side of the city, that they would not have already been cleaned up by now.”- Rev. Patrick Daymond, Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church, i...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
It almost didn’t happen. I was due to be a part of a discussion on Al Jazeera English (AJE), the international news channel, about the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year reign in Libya.A half-hour before show time, I receive the following email in my in...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
It’s been a year since the University of Illinois hosted the “Year of Social Media,” a lecture series that hosted people at the forefront of the social media revolution.During the series, Fernanda B. Viégas from Google spoke about bringing powerful...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
From left: Lizette, Martha and Gloria Herrera, outside their family home in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. After a lifetime of living near the Fisk coal-powered plant, Martha and Gloria have developed lupus. Martha’s daughter, Lizette, also is show...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
Google announced Monday that it would give $20,000 to journalism students who can mash-up computer science and enterprise reporting.The scholarship program is a joint venture between the Associated Press (AP) and Google, and will be administered by the On...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
photo from the London and UK Riots public pool on Flikr
Police forces in the United Kingdom arrested more than 2,500 in response to rioting last week in London, according to the Guardian’s Datablog.The Datablog’s latest information shows that rioters ...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 5 months ago.
Markets, both domestic and abroad, spent no time to react on the news that Standard & Poor’s, one of the three major companies that rate the solvency of nations, had downgraded the United States credit rating from AAA to AA+.S&P released its rep...
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