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The ‘Thanksgiving Effect’ and the Creepy Power of Phone Data
If you didn't know it before the Cambridge Analytica debacle, you do now: Your digital habits are dual-use data. One company might analyze them to recommend you TV shows, while another might try to leverage them to influence an election. The first scenario you might be OK with, the other not so much. So, knowing what you know now, ask yourself how you feel about this: Your personal data, it seems, can also be used to infer how your politics affect your personal life, including things like the time you spend with your family during the holidays. For a study published in this week's issue of Science, UCLA economist Keith Chen and Washington State University economist Ryne Rohla combined smartphone-location data from more than 10 million Americans with precinct-level election results to quantify the impact of partisanship and political advertising on Thanksgiving dinners in 2016, on the heels of the presidential election. Among their findings: Democrats shortened their visits to … [Read more...] about The ‘Thanksgiving Effect’ and the Creepy Power of Phone Data
App for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade lets you watch the festivities from afar
Even if you are not in the Big Apple, or not watching the 85th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from a television, you can still viewyour favorite balloon float above the crowd thanks to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade app. The free download is available from both the Android Market and from the App Store.Live streamed video from cameras mounted on traffic lights will allow you to view the parade as it makes its way around Macy's flagship store in Herald Square. For those in the city and planning on viewing the festivities up close and personal, the app gives you parade routes, the participants involved in the parade, transit information, weather, areas where you can find a Wi-Fi signal, places to dine and even locations where you can get a steaming cup of Joe to warm you up. And after the coffee has made its way through your system, one click gives you a list of restrooms in the area. A special Parade Participant Tracker allows you to keep tabs on dance troupes, marching bands … [Read more...] about App for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade lets you watch the festivities from afar
How Your World Works Podcast: Where the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Gets All That Helium
To learn more about the Thanksgiving Day Parade—along with a new test to determine if you're predisposed to cancer, how they restored Neil Armstrong's spacesuit, and a sweatshirt that makes drinking easier—download this week's episode of How Your World Works here, and be sure to subscribe and comment on iTunes! Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Step 1: StorageWorkers at an industrial gas facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, store a mix of gaseous and liquid helium in large cryovessels, which have five layers of antimagnetized steel or aluminum. Liquid nitrogen between the outermost layers and an airless vacuum between the rest maintain the helium at or near minus 452.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Over time more of the liquid helium in the tanks turns to gas, but the temperature remains the same.Step 2: CompressionA few days before the parade, workers connect a cryovessel to a helium compressor. A piston in the compressor then creates suction, pulling the gaseous helium into a … [Read more...] about How Your World Works Podcast: Where the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Gets All That Helium
Watch this morning’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade live streamed in 360 degrees
If it's become a tradition for you to kick off each Thanksgiving by watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, there is a way to watch it live streamed in 360 degrees. The streaming is the result of a partnership between Macy’s, NBC Universal, and Verizon. To view the Macy's Parade in 360 degrees, you will need to use a platform that supports 360 degree YouTube videos in the browser.360 degree cameras have been placed at strategic points along the parade route. Starting at 9am EST, click on the video at the top of the story; if your browser does support the 360 degree streaming, you'll be able to move your device from side to side and take in the floats, balloons and dancing as though you are right there while it is happening. You can be hundreds of miles away from the parade route and still feel like you're standing on the sidewalks of Manhattan.Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this way, you won't have to battle the traffic, stand for hours hoping to find a great … [Read more...] about Watch this morning’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade live streamed in 360 degrees