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	December 15th, 2012 Kick off the weekend with some DJ Spock [video] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Need some silliness to kickstart your Friday? Look no further than this 2008 promo for the Star Trek: Original Series DVD set presented by CBS. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at YouTube via Laughing Squid. Remixing Star Trek. The science of productivity [video] Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 Forget picking up that latest time management tome to boost your productivity in the new year and look at what science has to say about it with this quick and easy video from AsapSCIENCE. See, you’re already ahead of the game! Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at YouTube via Geekosystem. The science behind getting the job done. 給油 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 砂漠の街。 Where will the next big earthquake strike? Posted 1 day ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! The geologic features and seismic activity in the Himalayas and Pacific Northwest could mean those areas are primed for major earthquakes. Scientists have known for some time that India is subducting under Asia, and have recently begun studying the complexity of this volatile collision zone in greater detail, particularly the fault that separates the two plates, the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT). “What we’re observing doesn’t bear on where we are in the earthquake cycle, but it has implications in predicting earthquake magnitude,” says Warren Caldwell, a geophysics doctoral student at Stanford University. “From our imaging, the ramp location is a bit farther north than has been previously observed, which would create a larger rupture width and a larger magnitude earthquake.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Warren Caldwell Shopular (YC W12) goes national, lets you see all coupons and deals from 100 brands the second you hit the mall Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous No longer is it necessary to actively reach into our pockets to deliberately launch a shopping app in order to receive its value. Three weeks ago, Y-Combinator alumni Shopular launched a location-aware smart couponing and deals app that is making saving money an effortless experience. Shopular runs persistently in the background and automagically serves up the best coupons and offers for a user’s favorite stores when a user reaches a shopping mall. And it does so, shockingly, with negligible impact on battery life. In the three weeks since launching into public beta for both iOS and Android, Shopular has been downloaded 250,000 times. The company’s early users, which are 80 percent female, have given the app a 5-star rating in the iTunes App Store and a 4.7-star rating in Google Play marketplace, with more than 1,000 combined reviews. Today’s formal announcement of the Shopular platform coincides with its national rollout to more than 1,000 malls, outlet centers, and big-box superstores in all 50 states – previously it was limited to Westfield- and Simon-owned malls in select states. The app currently supports over 100 of the biggest brands and nationwide retailers in the US and continues to add more daily. The founders believe that even at its early stage, Shopular already offers the broadest coverage of any smart couponing app on iOS or Android. Read the full article on Pando Daily Leonard Nimoy's humbling Hobbit homage [video] Posted about 19 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Plenty of us have had embarrassing moments caught on tape, but few of us have ones that simply beg to be put up for all the world to see thanks to a certain highly-anticipated film’s release. We feel your pain, Mr. Nimoy, but we just can’t resist. Here’s Spock’s rendition of “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.” Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at YouTube. Embarrassing videos. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.