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Know Thyself

We humans are introspective. We observe patterns of our own behavior and we have memories for review.

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Street Wise: New Labs in 9 Cities to Focus on Improving Urban Life [Slide Show]

NEW YORK CITY--The Big Apple may not be as gritty today as it was even a decade ago, but it--and several other large urban areas worldwide--could benefit from a deeper examination of how it can better meet the needs of its nearly 8.4 million inhabitants .

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How Steve Weindel Redesigned Air Travel

Photographs Jason Madara Eight Sparks of Inspiration. .green{ color:rgb(120,180,26); font-weight:bold; } AS A GLOBE-TROTTING principal designer at architecture giant Gensler, Steve Weindel is not unfamiliar with the drudgery of air travel

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Too Hard For Science? Dean Kamen Defying Gravity

A silent jetpack would be like swimming in air, but it is likely beyond the physics of thrust In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people

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"Let’s Go for It"

Name: Arun Majumdar Title: Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy [More]

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Cereal Killer: Climate Change Stunts Growth of Global Crop Yields

The people of the world get 75 percent of their sustenance--either directly, or indirectly as meat--from four crops: maize (corn), wheat, rice and soybeans. The world's rising population--now predicted by the United Nations to reach 10.1 billion by century's end --has been fed thanks to rising yields of all four of these crops during the past century.

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