[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
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While the future of General Motors hangs in the balance, the future of public transit is getting more and more appealing. And much much easier.
If you ride mass transit, have an iphone, and live in any of these cities , you are about 245 megabytes away from being rewarded for your carfree […]
(photo credit: Universal Studios Hollywood) Debut of Universal Studios Hollywood’s Solar Golf Cart
Golf carts have long been associated with either business men with really bad taste in clothing (khaki pants and a gator/polo shirts), or important, silicone injected celebrity figures in Hollywood, such as Cher, Joan Rivers, Barnie the purple dinosaur, and Shrek the ogre.
Well, […]
Coming soon to the Middle East? “The Ziggurat.” (Image via World Architecture News)
Financial crisis or not, the folks in the Persian Gulf are thinking big, as usual. While construction projects in the rest of the world are grinding to a painful halt, two new ecocity-building projects have recently been unveiled in the Middle East: a […]
Afghan security forces watch over a new wind farm in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Paul David Ondik.
Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of promising talk about bringing renewable energy to developing countries. Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, a generally windy region where
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It’s not quite ocean iron fertilization, but I have a feeling this new geoengineering proposed will still raise quite a few hackles. The idea, which originated with Federico Magnani of Italy’s University of Bologna, is, as the name implies, fairly straightforward: You would fertilize, or “dope,” as the New Scientist’s Catherine Brahic […]