MIT's Test Cell Patrick Gillooly, MIT Solar cells are intended to mimic the photosynthesis of plants -- converting light into energy in the most efficient manner possible. But what other characteristics of plants could be handy for the renewable energy...
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This is adorable: a tiny charcoal BBQ grill using an Altoids Sours tin, two metal computer fan guards, and some sheet metal screws for legs. It looks like it fits one regular-sized briquette. As one of the commentors notes, this is great for marshmallows,...
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Here's Jill Lawrence at Politics Daily: After talking to five economists, I can give you the bottom line: Spending the money differently probably wouldn't have changed our circumstances much. But the economists took diverse paths to that conclusion,...
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I've now had a couple opportunities to play with with Galaxy Tab Android tablet that Samsung announced at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. My initial reaction is mostly positive.
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Only 24 hours after the launch of Apple's new social network, Ping, the service has been overrun by spammers. The fraudsters have created iTunes profiles and are posting links to a number of online scams, including ones that promises "free iPhones" or...
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Well folks, Thursday night is in the books, and the college football season is officially underway. And through just a few games, we’ve already learned a lot.We learned that Stephen Garcia actually looks like a quarterback this year. And that USC’s...
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The proposed mosque and community center in downtown Manhattan near Ground Zero continued to dominate the list of news links shared by bloggers, while Google's introduction of the ability to make phone calls via Gmail was the most-Tweeted news story,...
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Is this what Glenn Beck was talking about when he said that "a lot of universities are just as dangerous with indoctrination of our children as these terror groups are in Iran or North Korea"? Harvard undergrads woke up today to an inspiring alumni column...
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By John Ballard Peter Daou summarizes a sad state of affairs with The clamp down on American women. I see no way to parse and it's too good to miss so I'm grabbing the whole post. In a post on the travails of the left, I described the new (un)reality:...
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THE idea that a bit of deflation may be good for developed economies is a heretical one. But as it comes from Andrew Smithers, an economist who has made some good calls in the past*, it is worth listening to. The case is a little complicated, so it's...
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HOW closely have you been reading? Gulliver's eighth monthly quiz tests your knowledge of the best time to buy airline tickets, dieting flight attendants, and the surprise that awaited Thai security officials in a bag of fake tigers. The fun starts here.The...
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AS BRITAIN enters its new age of austerity, the debate on universal benefits is spreading. The BBC recently interviewed a collection of former cabinet ministers, some of them of pensionable age. It is a sign of the times that one of them, a multi-millionaire...
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Who is Mark Zuckerberg? Accidental Billionaires and The Facebook Effect help answer the question, but they leave room for other biographers to follow.
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Firms don't engage in price competition because they have a "gentlemen's agreement. If one of them starts undercutting the other they will drive down fees, and all of them see less money. The only way to end this is government action.
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Here's what you need about the most popular cuts before you fire up the grill this Labor Day.
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Don’t Look At Wedding Planning As an Excuse to Overspend Weddings expensive? And how. But that doesn’t mean you have to toss your budget out the window to have a great ceremony and reception. Prioritizing is one way to get the things you really want...
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Walking the streets of The Hague with non-stop pouring rain I found refuge in a small park facing the Swiss embassy… Here by pure coincidence I discovered the open air United in Art festival featuring 2 very impressive artists — local Dutch Kim...
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One of Spain’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Manolo Valdés represented his homeland in the 1999 Venice Biennale and has since been honored with exhibitions of his monumental sculptures in Beijing, Miami, Monaco, San Francisco, and St. Petersburg....
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Calling media portrayals of sex "unhealthy," the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new guidelines calling on all media outlets to present human sexuality in a healthy, scientifically accurate manner. At the same time, the group pomoted...
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Labor day is all about spending the day thinking about how you don't have work...if you're a million years old. For those of us still in school, it's all about going out hard on Sunday (ugh how strenuous was syllabus week, huh!?) and spending the day...
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When the National Journal announced its new chief political correspondent in Washington, D.C., the news didn't make quite the splash as other recent hires. That's because NJ offered the job to a Miami Herald political writer, Beth Reinhard, who has little...
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News outlets are following the politics and rhetoric surrounding the new health law. NPR reports on six myths perpetuated by some critics of the law. They include: the law helps President Barack Obama raise a private army and that those who want public...
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If you’ve never seen the movie The Women, don’t feel bad. You can get a much better lesson in girl-on-girl bitchiness by reading Gail Collins’ much nastier New York Times op-ed “Sarah’s Amazing Race.” With all the outrage over frivolous stimulus...
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Wedding Dress Dreams…Every Girl Has ‘Em! It might sound foolish, but I have this little wish. More than having beautiful decorations, good food, or rockin’ music, I want people to look at me when I step into the garden for our…...
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Steingarten tipples at PDT. “I ingest, and then they pay me to write about it,” explains Vogue food writer Jeffrey Steingarten. “I’m not doing an article for the November issue, so I’ve had much more time to eat than I ordinarily do. It's a...
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The companies would work together on selling Contrave, an experimental diet pill now under review by the Food and Drug Administration.
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NPR | Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Out-of-pocket costs and side effects are two reasons Americans are reluctant to try diet pills or supplements, a nationwide survey conducted for NPR finds. About 15 percent of people surveyed have ever taken a medicine to help them lose weight.
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NPR | Thursday, September 2, 2010
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About 8 months ago, my credit card company informed me they were raising my interest rate from about 13% to 28%. I didn’t take this well. After all, they were my first credit card company. We’d been together many years, ever since I moved into my...
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Each with a central culprit: housing, consumers, toxic assets, Europe, and the deficit. United States - Economy of the United States - European Union - Economic growth - Stock market...
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The famous line from "Good Will Hunting" is the perfect way to describe works by Howard Zinn and Chancellor Williams United States - Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present - Matt Damon - Andrew Jackson...
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South Africa has been regarded as having one of the most free press in the world. Now, these much lauded freedoms are once again being threatened. The South African parliament is currently debating a “Protection of Information” Bill. This bill proposes...
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Fiji's military leaders are pushing for the sale of the country's oldest newspaper, the Fiji Times, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited. Has the media mogul retaliated by declaring a war of words on the country?
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Jairo Aníbal Niño, one of the most-loved authors of children's literature in Colombia, passed away last Monday. Twitter users and bloggers remembered the author and his work.
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A Blog Supreme is on vacation. Until we return, we are periodically leaving you with some shots from The NPR Jazz Photography Pool on Flickr. Here, Bruce C. Moore writes about capturing the great Seattle saxophonist on film last year.
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NPR | Friday, September 3, 2010
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On this week's Pop Culture Happy Hour: The rise of unironic happiness, one great comedy podcast, one great movie, and a whole bunch of things that one of us is very, very much opposed to. Also: a chance for you to contribute your thoughts.
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NPR | Friday, September 3, 2010
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Kabul Bank's woes tied to senior officials now forced out spurs calls for a U.S.bailout.
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NPR | Thursday, September 2, 2010
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The new top commander in Afghanistan is talking up a weapon that has been kept in the shadows for years — special operations missions to kill or capture key insurgents — to try to co......
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A candidate in this month's Afghan parliamentary elections has been wounded in a grenade attack amid growing political violence and insurgent attacks aimed at sabotaging the polls....
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A candidate in this month's Afghan parliamentary elections has been wounded in a grenade attack amid growing political violence and insurgent attacks aimed at sabotaging the polls. ......
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Amanda ReedGrist has a new series of interviews up on people who are working to change America's food system in inspiring ways. Yesterday they posted an...
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Image: Google Maps Thankfully, No Deaths This Time An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. All 13 people who were...
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Photo: New Flyer What's the Difference Between CNG and Diesel? The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (the "MTA") has awarded New Flyer of America a contract for up to 475 buses. The contract is for 135 40-foot compressed natural gas...
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An easy, impressive D.I.Y. floral arrangement for a Labor Day party.
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Wages rose again last month. Is that because companies are cutting back on health benefits?
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A reporter for the Canadian newspaper The Star handed out five pre-paid credit cards to panhandlers, asked the panhandlers to return the card when finished, and tracked their purchases....
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