Delivery giant UPS uses software to determine the most efficient delivery routes. “The software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.”
Tag: 12.09.07
Describing Peter Nero
“Huge talent with polymath abilities and catholic tastes. Musician who actually enjoys giving audiences what they want. Maestro with charm to chat up donors and even carry on e-mail exchanges with fans. Plays piano like a dream.”
Building A Better Violin
Violin maker Hans Johannsson, artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Andreas Eggertsen are trying to “reinterpret the traditions of 17th- and 18th-century violin making using today’s technology and a contemporary visual aesthetic.”
UK Government To Propose 5 Hours Arts Ed Weekly In Schools
“Ministers hope the radical move, to be launched in their Children’s Plan, will elevate the status of arts education and help to underline its importance in children’s development. The target aims to allow all children to watch and take part in professionally organised music, dance, theatre and visual arts. It is intended to reflect the growing importance of creative industries to the UK economy and will be backed by a gradual increase in funding.”
Africa’s Rising Tide?
“By many standards, Africa is doing better than it has in decades. The number of democratically elected governments has risen sharply in the past decade, and the number of violent conflicts has dropped. African economies, and African businesses, are starting to show impressive results, and not just by the diminished standards the rest of the world reserves for its poorest continent.”
Kindle – The First Real E-book Is Here
“No technology gets it right on the first try, and dwelling on one device’s shortcomings misses the broader point. A visually tolerable digital reading experience is here. As the e-book iterates, that experience will just get better.”
Checkers In A Stalemate
A computer scientist “announced that after running a computer program almost nonstop for 18 years, he had calculated the result of every possible endgame that could be played, all 39 trillion of them. He also revealed a sober fact about the game: checkers is a draw. As with tic-tac-toe, if both players never make a mistake, every match will end in a deadlock.”
Chicago’s American Theater Makes Some Moves Up
“In a town already saturated with theater dreams and Broadway wishes, this is no easy task, but ATC appears to be ambitious and committed enough to make it happen. It is a theater company on the verge of something very big.”
Boston’s ICA – A Year Later
It’s been a year since Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art opened. “What the ICA has done is bring visitors from all over the metropolitan area to a part of Boston they would otherwise not have gone. I think people now can touch and feel the potential rather than saying it’s just a place on a map.”
Japanese Magazines Losing The Power Of Shock
“Japan’s weeklies and biweeklies, Tokyo Confidential’s prime sources, are in deep trouble, victims of changing times, an aging population, and maybe above all a growing immunity among readers to the weeklies’ stock in trade — outrage. Nothing shocks us any more…”