Ford Fiesta ST vs Toyota GT86: TRACK BATTLE

By this time we all know that Toyota GT86 is a little pistol of a car. It?s rear-wheel drive, has a great chassis, and even though it?s only got 197 hp, it?s still hoot to drive. Ford?s new Fiesta ST is also a fun little scoot. It makes more torque than the GT86 and is front wheel drive, but does that mean it doesn?t handle as well? The guys from EVOTV took both budget hot-rods out on the track to see which was more fun and came away with some results that may surprise you.

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Obama: S. Africa shows how people can change world

By NEDRA PICKLER and JULIE PACE
Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - President Barack Obama challenged young Africans to rise to the challenge of shoring up progress on the continent that rests on a "fragile foundation," summoning them to fulfill the legacy of South Africa's beloved former leader Nelson Mandela.

In his own effort to carve out a piece of that legacy, Obama announced a new U.S.-led initiative to double access to electric power across Africa, vowing to help bring "light where there is currently darkness."

"Nelson Mandela showed us that one man's courage can move the world," Obama said during an evening speech Sunday at the University of Cape Town.

Obama's remarks capped an emotional day that included a visit to the Robben Island prison where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero has been in hospital for most of this month and is said to be in critical condition.

In deeply personal remarks, the U.S. president spoke of standing in Mandela's cramped prison cell with his two young daughters, Malia and Sasha.

"Seeing them stand within the walls that once surrounded Nelson Mandela, I knew this was an experience they would never forget," he said. "I knew they now appreciated a little bit more that Madiba and other had made for freedom," Obama added, referring to Mandela by his clan name.

Obama address came nearly 50 years after Robert F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ripple of Hope" speech at the same university, an address that Obama aides said helped inspire the president's remarks. Kennedy's speech, delivered soon after Mandela was sentenced to prison, called on young people to launch a fight against injustice, creating ripples of hope that would "build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

Laying out his own vision for development on the continent where his father was born, Obama said the U.S. seeks "a partnership that empowers Africans to access greater opportunity in their own lives." He dismissed the notion that the U.S. sought to meddle in Africa's affairs, saying his country would benefit from the continent's ability to manage its own affairs - economically, politically and militarily.

"Ultimately I believe Africans should make up their own minds about what serves African interests," he said. "We trust your judgment, the judgment of ordinary people. We believe that when you control your destiny - if you got a handle on your governments - then governments will promote freedom and opportunity, because that will serve you."

The White House says Obama's electricity initiative, dubbed "Power Africa," symbolizes the type of cross-continent ventures the president seeks. Backed by $7 billion in U.S. investment, the power program will focus on expanding access to electricity in six African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania.

Private companies - including General Electric and Symbion Power - will make an additional $9 billion in commitments. However, those contributions fall well short of the $300 billion the International Energy Agency says would be required to achieve universal electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.

The funds are aimed at expanding the reach of power grids and developing geothermal, hydro, wind and solar power.

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Maker Nabs A 3D Model Of Marcus Aurelius With Google Glass

In what looks to be a first for the technology, designer and engineer Todd Blatt took 30 pictures of a bust of Marcus Aurelius with Google Glass and created a downloadable 3D model that you can grab and print.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 owners can test Android 4.3

Android updates aren't exactly the best kept secrets in the world, and as a result, the highly anticipated 4.3 update has been spotted once more. And this time you can actually use it. The update is available for the Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505G) and the Snapdragon-powered version of the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505), and it isn't through official channels.

You can install the update if you have one of those devices by following these steps. However, be warned that doing so will void your warranty. You will need a rooted device with a custom recovery installed.

Now try out Android 4.3 on your Google Play Edition Galaxy S4

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It was recently revealed that the Google Play Edition for the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One will not be getting updates from Google. Instead, updates for these devices will be handled by Samsung and HTC respectively. Both the devices have been found to run on different kernels than Nexus devices.

The Galaxy S4 runs kernel version 3.4.0, while the HTC One has kernel version 3.4.10. Nexus 4 also has 3.4.0, but it's a different build. It makes sense for Google to not have the same kernel version for the two Google Edition phones. Samsung and HTC would best know their own hardware and can customise the kernel based on it. Since kernel updates will be seeded by Samsung and HTC, the OS updates will also follow from them.

The Google Edition S4 and One went on sale at the US Google Play Store this week. While the S4 is priced at $649 (Rs 39,000 approx), the HTC One with stock Android can be had for $599 (Rs 36,000 appox). Confused about which one to pick? Check out our Catch-22 article.

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Sally McGraw: How Body Positivity and Figure Flattery Can Coexist

I used to utilize so much energy hating my body that I exhausted myself into depression. For years I tried to change my body with diets and exercise, believing that its shape and size were the root of the problem, but I just kept on hating it. When I began exploring fashion and style -- dressing in fun, flattering and form-fitting clothes -- an unexplored universe opened up to me. For the first time, I respected my body. I realized that there was nothing wrong with my body. I saw my body as integral to my identity. I wanted to show it off, decorate it joyously and hone my personal style so that I could understand it on new levels. Shortly after those realizations clicked into place, I launched my blog. Discovering that connection between looking good and feeling good, as it relates to style, is what inspired me to create Already Pretty. Because when I started to dress in a way that made me look amazing and feel amazing, I finally stopped actively, continually, exhaustively hating my body. And I immediately wanted to show other women how to make that connection so they could stop hating theirs.

I write about the intersection of style and body image, and I get a lot of questions about how I can call myself a body image advocate and still dish out advice on how to flatter the female form in traditional, socially sanctioned ways. I understand that many people perceive a disconnect, but there are several reasons I think it's important to discuss style in this way.

The reader-submitted questions I receive most frequently are about traditional figure flattery topics, and I address them along with all the others. My guess is that just about every style writer, stylist and style expert is plied with such questions almost constantly. Unlike many other style writers, however, I am very careful about how I address these questions. I emphasize choice and encourage people to think about why these specific figure flattery priorities are viewed as important. I never talk about figure "flaws" because I don't believe that bodies are flawed and loathe that judgmental term. When I offer traditional figure flattery advice it is never couched in terms of fixing things or hiding imperfections, and relatively few of my readers frame their requests in those terms. The dialogue is about choosing what you love about your figure and want to highlight, and also about understanding the challenges you face and the aspects you'd rather downplay. I am yet to meet a woman who loves absolutely everything about her body, top to tail and dresses without giving a single thought to what will be showcased most prominently. And while I completely agree with the sentiment behind "dress in what makes you feel happy and comfortable" -- a message I promote myself, and often -- I think that the morass of style rules, body negativity and mixed messages that women receive about style and their figures leaves many of them feeling confused about which clothes COULD make them feel happy and comfortable. Hence their questions.

I've been writing about this stuff for six years and working one-on-one with style consult clients for five, and I'll tell you something: Even women who hire me specifically because they love my body-positive stance want my advice about regular old figure flattery. When I work with them, I lean hard on acceptance and ask lots of questions because I want them to understand where those urges to look tall and thin are coming from. But I also give them what they want because I know that feeling good about how you look often begins with conforming to traditional standards of style before branching off into individuality. You've got to know the rules before you can break them. And I know for a fact that what I say to them about questioning their choices, accepting themselves as fully as possible and not worrying so much about what the fashion rags say has an impact. Because they follow-up to tell me so.

I think each individual woman is capable of gathering information, evaluating it and deciding for herself how she wants to present her figure and body and self to the world. I understand that many people view my writings about figure flattery as hypocritical, and I'm just fine with that. I don't think that "There's nothing wrong with your body" is sufficient or helpful to the vast majority of women who are both interested in style and struggling with body image. Although some may hear that rallying cry and feel empowered to shirk the rules and truly wear absolutely anything that makes them feel fabulous, others may feel like it's the equivalent of being told, "Just get over yourself and stop whining." The former group probably doesn't want my help or input on style or body image in the first place. The latter group, however, is looking for a space to explore style that includes some structure and advice, but remains free of judgment.

These women are learning about themselves through clothing -- just as I did -- and their questions are valid. They crave something more concrete and actionable than, "Wear whatever you want whenever you want." I'd rather give them ways to make their waists look smaller presented kindly and with some reminders about socially reinforced beauty standards than have them running to Stacy London or Tim Gunn. (Who, try as they might, always seem to give people the impression that there is one right way to look good). No blogger is going to cure women of their body image issues and hang-ups or have perfect answers to every possible style question. But my hope is to encourage the women who read my writing to begin thinking and talking, give them some new tools to use, offer some supportive language about self-acceptance and provide a place to discuss it all.

Some people who read my writing will never see this, or agree to it. I understand and respect that because I know there are many ways to view the world and parse information. Just as some people will always maintain that if you shave your legs or wear lipstick you absolutely cannot be a feminist, some people will say that if you wear high heels to elongate your legs you absolutely cannot be a body image advocate. Those are opinions, so there is no true right or wrong to be had. I'm a pretty black and white thinker myself, but this is one realm in which I'm happy to live in the gray. Because there seem to be an awful lot of women who are looking for a middle ground between "dress skinny" and "fuck flattering," and I want to create a safe haven for those women to explore their questions.

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Living Large in 140 Square Feet

Chris Tack made seven unloading trips to Goodwill before moving into the tiny home he and his wife Malissa designed and built. Constructed on a trailer bed and parked in Snohomish, Washington, the house is more than enough space for them, the couple says. And one advantage of an abode on wheels is that you can always move, says Malissa.

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IRA FLATOW, HOST:

Clock on the wall says it's Flora o'clock time.

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Hi. Flora Lichtman is here...

FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: Hi, Ira.

FLATOW: ...with our Video Pick of the Week.

LICHTMAN: That's right. Speaking of consumers and energy and sustainability on the personal level, this serves as a perfect segue, actually, to our Video Pick, which is about a couple in Snohomish, Washington - so outside of Seattle - who have built their own home. But here's the thing.

FLATOW: Yeah.

LICHTMAN: It's really small.

FLATOW: Really small?

LICHTMAN: Really, really small.

FLATOW: How small is it?

(LAUGHTER)

LICHTMAN: It is 140 square feet. So it's about 20 feet long and about seven feet wide, and everything's in it. So you have a sleeping loft. So it's about one-and-a-half stories. The kitchen is underneath that, along with the bathroom. The rest of it is the living room. The workspace folds out. Tables, sort of, go down to the wall, and then can be brought up. And there you have it. It all fits. But there's not a lot of open spaces, as you might imagine.

FLATOW: Yeah. So if you want to - and a couple of live in the house, right?

LICHTMAN: Right. Chris and Malissa Tack are the people who built and designed the place themselves. They're 29 years old, and they said that one of the things that they liked about this - which I think is actually emblematic of this generation - is that they didn't want to have to put down roots in one place. So here's the solution: You build your house on a trailer bed, and then you can take it with you when you move.

FLATOW: You've got the hitch right there.

LICHTMAN: That's right.

FLATOW: And - but there's a - sort of stationary, at the moment, right?

LICHTMAN: Right. So they've got it parked. They're renting land, and they have it parked there. And I think they've been for a while now. And, you know, they had - they rented the land while they built the house and, you know, there are a few, sort of, interesting, neat, little considerations. One thing that they did that I thought was kind of cool was for insulation, they used a sort of natural wall insulation. I had never seen that before. But anyway, you can get all of the nuts and bolts of living and building one of these tiny houses on our website at sciencefriday.com.

FLATOW: It's our Video Pick of the Week. It's up there at sciencefriday.com, also on our YouTube channel that we have on YouTube. And, yeah, in the video, you see him - I think it was him. He was demonstrating where the wool is coming out of the wall.

LICHTMAN: Yeah.

FLATOW: Plus, he said, you know, why put all this fiber glass in there? I don't want to sit here breathing it in. It's a small house and...

LICHTMAN: Right, right, right.

FLATOW: ...that sort of stuff. And...

LICHTMAN: Right. So the cost of this house - so one thing is that a cost of a tiny house is going to be higher per square foot...

FLATOW: Right.

LICHTMAN: ...because you're sort of packing in a lot into a small space. So there a lot of windows. One of the things that was really nice about being inside the space is that it was much brighter than almost any space I've been in, because the number of windows per area was huge.

FLATOW: Right. So you don't feel like you're closed in also, right...

LICHTMAN: No. You don't...

FLATOW: ...a tight, little spot.

LICHTMAN: No. You don't feel like you're closed in. And, in fact, this was one of the things that we had asked about. You know, what do you do when...

FLATOW: You want to get away from someone, right?

LICHTMAN: ...when you want to get away from someone? And I think we actually have a little clip of Malissa describing what you do.

(SOUNDBITE OF VIDEO)

MALISSA TACT: You actually open the front door and you walk out.

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Pretty simple, huh?

LICHTMAN: Yeah, exactly.

FLATOW: Go outside, get some fresh air.

LICHTMAN: Yeah.

FLATOW: So they intend to stay with this, and not move it around and just keep where it is.

LICHTMAN: Well, for now.

FLATOW: For now.

LICHTMAN: For now. And they also have a cat, by the way. So it's three living beings in this place.

FLATOW: Right.

LICHTMAN: And this was, I thought, actually, kind of funny, because if you're living in a 140-foot square foot place...

FLATOW: Right.

LICHTMAN: ...the litter box is actually huge in comparison to your home...

FLATOW: That's right. It's a large part of the place.

LICHTMAN: ...the ratio of litter box to home is much larger.

FLATOW: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

LICHTMAN: And so they had this ingenious solution that they designed themselves, which was to sort of quadrant it off under a closet where you can only enter through the bathroom. And it was a great idea that they came up with, because they had to. But, you know, every house should be built in with a litter box home.

FLATOW: Yeah. Of course.

LICHTMAN: You know, it's a great idea.

FLATOW: Even if you don't have a cat. You should...

LICHTMAN: Absolutely.

FLATOW: Yeah.

LICHTMAN: Yeah.

FLATOW: It's our Video Pick of the Week. Do we have a name - tiny house? Do we have a name for...

LICHTMAN: Living tiny?

FLATOW: Living tiny - in our theme of tiny, little things from little bugs, microscopic spots.

LICHTMAN: Had to expand to this other tiny thing.

FLATOW: Giant - 140 square feet, that's giant for us in our tiny world.

LICHTMAN: And, you know, I think there are a lot of people who have done this. So if SCIENCE FRIDAY listeners have their own stories about building their own, go to our website and leave us a comment about it, or send us a link to your home. I'd love to see it.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. You had - you did the other - the small, boxy home, right? It was the shipping container.

LICHTMAN: The shipping containers.

FLATOW: How big is that, in comparison?

LICHTMAN: I think it was, like, six times the size.

FLATOW: So this one-sixth the size of the shipping containers.

LICHTMAN: About.

FLATOW: Wow. All right. It's up there, our Video Pick of the Week - thank you, Flora...

LICHTMAN: Thanks, Ira.

FLATOW: ...up on our website at sciencefriday.com.

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