" U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell participated in the announcement, praising the plans. She pointed out the value of federal tax credits for solar projects, which she helped to extend. "This project will move Washington...
Science and technology researcher Eric Drexler, on his new blog Metamodern.com, comments on the history and evolution of the Scientific Method. Hypothesis followed by experiments has been a mainstay, even a dogmatic paradigm in Science. However, with today's computing...
opinion by Erik Larson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 475 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction photo credit: laffy4k New York Times called the possibility of an AIG liquidation “as close to an extinction-level event as the financial markets have seen since the Great Depression.” We keep hearing that the current...
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"John McCain is planning to roll out his vice presidential nominee in three battleground states this weekend, with large-scale rallies planned for Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, according to aides and advisers. "Mitt Romney will be there and he is supposedly one of the...
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Update: over at the New York Observer, they seem to think that Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman will be the pick. They also have an amusing look at Bush's mistake in tapping Dan Quayle to appease party...
A seven-star hotel, expected to be one of the world’s biggest hotels, will be built in Ha noi by Israel’s El-Ad Group."The project includes a luxury hotel, an area for conferences, apartments, and an office building equipped modern facilities. The project is being...
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Centralized solar-power generation appears to have a sunny future as demand for renewable energy rises. Here's a look at two competing designs for large-scale solar energy farms."When it comes to solar these days,...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 277 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
"What if I told you the Federal Government would be paying to experimentally inject 1 million tons of carbon dioxide into the ground under Illinois? And what if I said the CO2 would by supplied by an ethanol plant...
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"Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory experiences. Challenging the passive nature of traditional art-viewing, he engages the observer as...
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Rio Tinto and BP join forces to develop clean energy worldwide
May 17, 2007
BP and Rio Tinto today announced the formation of a new jointly-owned company, Hydrogen Energy,...
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Israeli protestors swarmed Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv to voice their disgust with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's handling of 2006's incursion in to Lebanon. Olmert had appointed a commission to investigate the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 885 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has signed a law giving amnesty for crimes committed during the civil war.
The amnesty, part of a recent peace deal, applies to both the New Forces rebels and the armed forces loyal to President Gbagbo.
Last month human rights group...
I just found this story through photographs I stumbled upon. It seems that youths in Copenhagen took to the streets to protest a planned demolition of a culture center (Ungdomshuset). Here is what I could find...
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Taiwanese commemorate 60th Anniversary of massacreToday marks the 60th Anniversary of the 228 Incident, a large-scale protest against Chinese Nationalist rule that led to the deaths of nearly 28 000 people on...
created by Kaitlin | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 1085 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
"The launch of the first large-scale study to evaluate a candidate HIV vaccine on the African continent was announced today by study collaborators in the United States and South Africa. The trial will involve up...
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