"TweetShareShareA Skype conversation skips across continents with no perceptible lag. The manufacturing economy cranks forth like a containerized, globally integrated, seamless, just-in-time wonder. Hollywood films are released simultaneously in B...
"TweetShareShareWith wave power, it all seems pretty straightforward. Waves come from the wind. Wind power is already a big-time clean-energy source (producing about\u00a02.5 percent\u00a0of the world\u2019s electricity and growing). Water is 784 ...
"\"TweetShareShareThere have been three major eras in the history of science, as Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist and computer scientist Alex Szalay describes it. The first, which lasted for millennia, was empirical, involving mostly the...
"\"TweetShareShareAt first blush, the key players in George Friedman\\u2019s World War III scenario seem to have been plucked from a random-country generator: Japan, Turkey, and\\u2026 Poland? But take a step back. First, consider the source....
"\"TweetShareSharePerhaps one day we\\u2019ll send a spacecraft to a rocky planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. And perhaps the first images arriving back from across 4.2 light years of space will feature a purple Proxima Centurian peering straight...
"\"TweetShareShareYou can drive an electric vehicle powered by rooftop solar panels, replace your old appliances and light bulbs with energy-sipping versions, recycle compulsively, compost, give up meat, eschew air travel, buy used-everything,...
"\"TweetShareShareIn late March\\u00a0I flew to Phoenix, spent a couple of days with my folks, and then drove their (former) car from Fountain Hills, Ariz. to Denver, Colo. The trip took 11 hours, 10 minutes, the first 822 miles of it done in 11...
"\"TweetShareShareIt’s a bit embarrassing to say, but I attended my first political march just a couple of weeks back\\u00a0— March for Science Denver. Brought along the girls and their good pal Laine. They were surprised that someone...
"\"TweetShareShareThe Estonians moved a statue; the Russians launched a new form of warfare. Now, a decade later, the man who was president of Estonia at the time proposes a new sort of alliance to counter a threat that has spread far from his...
"\"TweetShareShareTo understand what Marije Vogelzang really does\\u200a\\u2014\\u200aand she does a lot of things\\u200a\\u2014\\u200athere\\u2019s no better example than a project right here in Budapest in 2011. For her \\u201cEat Love...
"\"TweetShareShareIn late 2016, Albert-L\\u00e1szlo Barab\\u00e1si and colleagues\\u00a0published\\u00a0a paper aimed at putting empirical heft behind the anecdotal truism that physicists did their best work when they were young. They considered...
"\"TweetShareShareTake a close look at your smartphone for a moment. Unless you\\u2019re among the rare Blackberry holdovers or a true clamshell-toting troglodyte, it\\u2019s a slab of glass and plastic and\\\/or metal, a plug or two, a couple of...
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