Google Employees Sleep In Alien-Like Pods
How does Google keep its employees fresh for long days and nights of working? With sleep pods. FT reporter Richard Waters was in Google’s Mountain View headquarters yesterday and snapped this photo of an anonymous Googler catching some rest. When Richard walked past the pod later, he said a pair of female legs were sticking…
Tech News
Jay Yarow - Business Insider
Clean-up of oil spill may cause long-term damage
Handle with care. That’s the advice of coastal ecologists and geologists to those who are planning the clean-up of the Gulf ecosystems threatened by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Louisiana’s ecologically important but fast-eroding marshes, which serve as nurseries for commercially important shrimp and fish, are the main worry. In such a sensitive habitat, removing…
io9
Peter Aldhous and Jeff Hecht - New Scientist
