You know how you’re not supposed to text or otherwise play with your iPhone/Blackberry/iPod/Zune/whatever while driving? That’s because you might crash. Any device could distract you. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me that just because you’re a cop or a paramedic you might still be susceptible to…distraction… … But that’s the case. [...]

As a borderline obsessed New Yorker reader I’ve got to say I’m pretty psyched that cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, who regularly teaches here at Michigan, has his own blog at the magazine’s website. I haven’t taken a class of Mankoff’s but I’ve heard him speak and also explain how cartoons work at The New Yorker: [...]

Via Chicagoist, this map has been stuck in my mind all day. It compares the number of grocery stores in one area to the number of bars. If there are more grocery stores than bars, the area gets a yellow dot and if there are more bars than grocery stores, it gets a red dot: [...]

From The New York Observer: For the first time there are more e-books than games in the iPhone app store, reports the Guardian (UK). Books now outnumber game apps 27,000 to 25,400–and the paper says that e-books are “gathering momentum” in anticipation of the iPad. Publishers find this exciting. “The iPhone has always been perceived [...]

Here’s a follow-up on last month’s post on the Large Hadron Collider: “The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to address design issues, according to an LHC director. Dr Steve Myers told BBC News the faults will delay the machine reaching its full potential for [...]

Neil Sinhababu has some interesting thoughts about the Articles of Confederation: And as far as I can see, things were pretty awful. Without the power to tax, we couldn’t raise an army or give veterans their pensions. Since we didn’t have a proper navy, Barbary pirates would enslave our sailors. The money of an insolvent [...]