Show Notes for August 14, 2013

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  • AOL CEO apologizes for firing employee during a conference call with 1,000 people
  • Transportation
    • California High-Speed Rail
      • Top speed: 220 mph (350 km/h)
      • San Francisco-Los Angeles:
        • 432 miles (695 km)
        • 2 hours 38 minutes
        • 164 mph (264 km/h)
      • "estimates final cost at Year-Of-Expenditure (YOE) $68 billion for the Phase 1 project, connecting San Francisco with Los Angeles via Central Valley and Palmdale"
      • unclear who would build the trains? wher e is the 
    • Taiwan High Speed Rail
      • Top speed: 186 mph (300 km/h)
      • Operating speed: 179 mph (288 km/h)
      • "total cost of the project was $18 billion. At the time it was built, this was one of the world's largest privately funded rail construction schemes."
      • based primarily on Japan's Shinkansen technology
    • Hyperloop
      • Claimed top speed: over 700 mph (> 1100 km/h)
      • Claimed cost SF-LA: $6 billion
      • Hyping the Hyperloop: blog post by Robert Cruickshank, "former Chairman of Californians for High Speed Rail and […] still a board member of that organization"
    • Rainbows End, SF book by Vernor Vinge, describes a world where "automatic cars" go around and automatically pick up and drop passengers.
  • GMail privacy
  • Glasses
  • Mark Cuban "is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. He is also a "shark" investor on the television series Shark Tank. In 2011 Cuban wrote an e-book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, in which he chronicles his life experiences in business and sports"
  • Health
    • Omega-3 Fatty Acids Linked to Increase in Prostate Cancer Risk
    • The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements
    • Linus Pauling "was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century. Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. […] However, his promotion of orthomolecular medicine, megavitamin therapy, dietary supplements, and vitamin C have been criticized, with Paul Offit stating that Pauling "was arguably the world's greatest quack" for his assertions about dietary supplements""

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