Ballengee: Tiger Woods has been working on his game for months. And with one amazing flurry back into Masters contention on Friday, the 'process' may finally be over.
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Read More »Video: Baby boomers: Revamping retirement
The first of a massive wave of baby boomers are turning 65 this year and set to retire, but many are choosing to continue to work. Ben Tracy reports on retirement - boomer style.
Read More »Cleaning Up Oil Spills With a Swarm of Autonomous Sailboats
Imagine if, after the next Deepwater-esque oil spill, we simply deployed a fleet of inflatable sailboats, equipped with oil-sucking booms, that would autonomously sail to the spill and soak up the oil. Or, if we need accurate data about radiation in the water outside another power plant approaching meltdown, we just sent in our fleet of boats, because we don't feel bad about submitting our robot slaves to radiation.
Read More »The Solar Industry Responds to Claims of Supply-Chain Dirtiness
After we wrote about how many solar panel makers fared badly on The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition 's 2011 Solar Scorecard , the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) nearly fell over itself to respond, telling us that the solar industry is cleaning up its act--and fast.
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Read More »Amy Mickelson back in her element at Augusta
Phil Mickelson waited at the bottom of the ninth fairway for the green to clear when he looked over to his left and broke into a big smile. He touched two fingers to his eyes, then pointed them toward a blonde woman in a royal blue dress.
Read More »Can Killing Virtual Trees Save Real Paper?
Yes, says Stanford. We're not so sure. A Stanford study shows that after cutting down a virtual reality tree, people are more likely to conserve paper
Read More »Stacy Lewis looking ahead to more success
Stacy Lewis stepped into a car following the Kraft Nabisco Championship, her first opportunity to fully grasp what she had just done.
Read More »PGT: Ogilvy finally finds success at Augusta
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Read More »PGT: Mickelson doesn’t improve, but still confident
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Read More »Move Over Earth, Wind & Fire: Sun, Air, and Water May One Day Power Everything
Scientists at CalTech are perfecting a technique that converts water, air, and sunlight into different kinds of fuel that could power everything from car engines to fuel cells in cell phones. It sounds almost too good to be true, from an environmental stand-point.
Read More »GolfChannel: Couples continues Augusta love affair
GolfChannel: Fred Couples, 51, shoots a 4-under 68 on Friday to give himself another chance at a historic Masters win.
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Allergy season is coming - here's how to keep sneezing and sniffling from showing up
Read More »Will Facebook’s Open Compute Project Accelerate Data Center Innovation?
The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed. Facebook didn’t spend eighteen months and tens of millions of dollars developing more powerful--and more energy efficient--data centers and servers so that it could go into the hardware business
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