PORTL: If you Can Be There, Beam There! discover The projector can transmit images any time of the day or night, and using PORTL’s capture studio-in-a-box means that anyone with $60,000 to spend and a white background can beam themselves into any portal anywhere in the world. Part of the selling point, beyond just the gimmick of the hologram’s next-level verisimilitude, is its interactivity. Through the studio rig and PORTL hardware, users can hear what people standing ... Read More
Official Stats Overstate Poverty by Measuring Before $1T in Government Spending on “Just the News”
Ed explains that official statistics overstate poverty by measuring it before $1 trillion of government spending. So employment gains appear to have an exaggerated effect on reducing poverty and inequality. ... Read More
Waking Up to a Misleading Inequality Report on the Sunday Morning News
If these reporters had winning arguments, they wouldn’t resort to misleading their audiences. Last week, I was briefly featured in one of the major networks’ Sunday morning news programs. The main thrust of the segment was the argument that Americans aren’t doing their fair share to help families who lost their jobs during the pandemic despite a recently published report by the Brookings Institute showing, “government policy effectively countered [the pandemic’s] ... Read More
Lies, Damned Lies, and Steve Rattner’s Statistics
Lies, Damned Lies, And Steve Rattner’s Statistics If liberal economists could win the economic debate with honest arguments, they would make them. As President Reagan once joked, “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” In his New York Times op-ed, Steve Rattner adds his name to the list of people willing to compromise their reputation to mislead the American people. No serious ... Read More
David Blaine Takes Flight, Splendid Isolation, and Lambo Go!
How David Blaine plans to float up to 25,000 feet using just helium balloons watch DB takes flight this Monday, August 31 6:00AM ET . Watch it free on YouTube with ads or get YouTube Premium to watch ad-free with exclusive bonus footage. Read more on British GQ here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u84hYvlxXLE&feature=emb_title Do we really need another Batman Movie? watch (Editor's note: Maybe!) Starring Robert Pattinson, Paul Dano, Zoe Kravitz, Collin ... Read More
TheirTube, Hard Knocks Returns, and Wipe Out of the Year
Interesting Internet Pt.1: TheirTube Lets You Visit Radically Different YouTube Recommendation Bubbles via Kottke more Explore TheirTube here. Interesting Internet Pt. 2: Watch the Internet Move In Real Time via WebFx explore the data The Sly Psychology Behind Magicians' Card Tricks via Ars Technica the prestige "Pick a card, any card. It's a staple of traditional magic tricks. But if you choose the three of diamonds, chances are you may have been "primed" by ... Read More
EV Apex Predator, Mars 4K, and the Reon Pocket
EV Apex Predator: Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 via Car & Driver specs With seven motors and a targeted 1400 horsepower, the Mach-E 1400, the work of Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Ford, is built for thrill rides... Raffa Got a Boat: Tour Nadal’s New 80-Foot Catamaran, ‘Great White’ via Robb Report covet No need to Mind the Gap: Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of our universe’s expansion history via SDSS full story Be Amazed: Mars in Ultra 4K via ElderFox ... Read More
