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Parking Panda, a new service that allows drivers to list their empty spaces and others to rent them as needed, is looking to solve the problem of an ever-increasing shortage of parking spaces nationwide.
By compiling a network of unused parking spaces, Parking Panda provides drivers with a list of available spots, allowing them to reserve and pay online.
Anyone using the service can register an unused spot. Those looking for a parking spot at a particular time can log on and search available spaces, rent and pay online with a guaranteed empty spot. However, spots may not always be available as availability depends on how many people register empty spots and where and when they are accessible.
“A single space in a driveway or backyard is hardly worth marketing,” Slate’s Matthew Yglesias wrote, “but if an online service can drastically simplify the discovery process, then suddenly ‘hidden’ parking capacity can be unlocked.”
Try Parking Panda in Chicago. It could relieve all your woes in coming to the city with just a few clicks!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/shared-parking-spots-may-lessen-the-hassle-of-finding-parking_n_2371168.html?ir=Small+Business
https://www.parkingpanda.com/chicago-parking
My Dad would have loved to see this if he were still around. His favorite saying? “Another twenty bucks? Let me go out back and s..t some more money.” We now have gold-pooping bacteria…it consumes a toxic metal to produce pure gold.
Before you grab your lab coat and rush out to nab some of the bacteria, stop. It is about as rare as the precious metal itself. And if you’re thinking you can duplicate the reaction in your basement using your gold jewelry, think again. The bacteria is grown on large concentrations of gold chloride — the toxic metal in question — also known as liquid gold.
Michigan State University announced on Oct. 1 that Associate Professor of electronic art and intermedia Adam Brown and his colleague, Assistant Professor of microbiology and molecular genetics Kazem Kashefi had found that the metal-tolerant bacteria could grow in the highly toxic environment. The process, according to Kashefi, is called “microbial alchemy,” and it’s on display in an art installation called “The Great Work of the Metal Lover.”
Slate has produced a video explaining how the super-strong bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans goes about its precious dirty business:
WATCH IT
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/a-bacteria-that-poops-gold-yep-that-exists-and-its-in-an-art-exhibit-video/2012/10/04/1617f178-0e5d-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html
We’ve all seen it. It’s on the instrument panel of a newer car. Along the arc between the F and E is a symbol for a little gas pump. To the left of it is an arrow. Or…it’s a little green arrow between two red rectangles. What’s it for?
Pick one:
a) The arrow indicates the direction that the dots move from empty to full. Most gauges and dials—think your radio volume, for example—work in the opposite fashion: full/more is to the right, empty/less to the left. While F and E would seem sufficiently explanatory, car manufacturers further clarify the matter with an arrow, lest drivers get confused.
b) The arrow indicates the direction the needle will go when the tank is filled.
c) The arrow indicates which side of the car the gas tank is on. This arrow points left, so the car’s filler cap is on the left.
d) The arrow indicates, when lit up, that the car has been driven a certain distance since it was last filled. This is so rental companies can catch folks who return a car without filling it up. (On this fairly typical car, the arrow lights up 9.3 miles/15 kilometers after the last fill-up, so a driver must fill it up within that distance of the return location to avoid a fee.)
And the answer is…READ IT HERE
Story by Mark Vanhoenacker
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/09/dashboard_gas_gauge_arrows_what_do_they_indicate_.html
All ya gotta do is SIT, LISTEN, and MAYBE watch. Have some treats handy for yourself and perhaps someone to tell you “Attaboy! Good job!”
From the Slate, Robert Wright has a chat with Charles Duhigg on how to get more, or SOMETHING done that you just keep putting off. Check it out:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_wright_show/2012/04/21/charles_duhigg_on_procrastination_and_the_power_of_habit.html
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