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Civilization: Beyond Earth and the ultra-cool technologies of tomorrow
Firaxis' strategy game Civilization: Beyond Earth, shows humankind populating new worlds. Set in a not-too distant future, the game demands that players choose and invest in technologies to ease their path.
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5 Huge Problems Solved by Doing the Worst Thing Possible
Fighting fire with fire sounds awesome, like some incredible underground mixed martial arts tournament where fire-horned demons battle that weird kid with the Zippo who sat at the back of English class.
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If You Have Unlimited Vacation, Will You Take It?
Last week, the Virgin Group founder Richard Branson announced he’d be giving his employees unlimited time off — and in so doing, incited a debate about whether they’d actually feel they could take it.
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Chinese Billionaire Says: If You're Poor At 35, You Deserve It
Jack Ma: Before I founded Alibaba, I invited 24 friends to my house to discuss the business opportunity. After discussing for a full two hours, they were still confused — I have to say that I may not have put myself across in a clear manner manner then. The verdict: 23 out of the 24 people in the room told me to drop the idea, for a multitude of reasons, such as: ‘you do not know anything about the internet, and more prominently, you do not have the start-up capital for this’ etc etc.
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"Homeland" And Other Un-American Words and Ideas
A week ago I saw this piece in The Nation which picked up on a Chris Matthews rant about how defense and security of the "homeland" has become a commonplace phrase in the year's since 9/11. I was heartened by this because this has been a pet issue of mine going back to the months just after 9/11. As I wrote more than a dozen years ago, the phrase "does have a deep blood and soil tinge to it which is distinctly Germanic, more than a touch un-American, and a little creepy."
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The Next Big Thing You Missed: Startup Aims to Give Everyone the Mighty Shipping Power of Amazon
The tech industry’s effort to master the last mile of delivery is well documented. Online retailers are obsessed with finding ways of getting packages to your door as quickly as possible. But what about the first mile—the mile traveled when you send a package to someone else?
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Turning Big Problems Into Big Business Opportunities
Want to become a billionaire? Then help a billion people. The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities. That’s the premise for companies launching out of Singularity University (SU). Allow me to explain.
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How the Donner Party inspired food packaging
Bill tells us about packaging, a sub-discipline of engineering that is essential to our society. This radio commentary was originally broadcast on November 30, 2004.
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Car Insurer Unveils Plans For "Pink Zones," So Male Drivers Don't Kill All The Women
Female focused car insurer Sheilas’ Wheels has recognised the need to make UK roads safer for women drivers and have identified PinkZones, a concept that would see separate lanes for female drivers on UK roads, as a potential vision of the future.
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Can a robot be too nice?
Smart machines need the right “personality” to work well—and experts are finding the best choice may not always be what we think we want
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Toilet prank
Very well made prank of a friend
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The Simplest, Yet Smartest Solution for Finding a Parking Space.
S-Oil launched the HERE campaign. The idea is to use balloons to help car drivers finding empty parking spaces quickly. Simple, yet so smart.
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Peach Butter Recipe
Peach butter is simple to prepare and wonderfully rich in flavor thanks to the addition of spices like allspice, ginger and cloves.
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Don’t be afraid to get back up
to try again, to love again, to live again, and to dream again. Don’t let a hard lesson harden your heart. Life’s best lessons are often learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes. There will be times when it seems like everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong. And you might feel like you will be stuck in this rut forever, but you won’t. When you feel like quitting, remember that sometimes things have to go very wrong before they can be right. Sometimes you have to go t
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Asian street kitchen
See how it's done
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The power of lonely. What we do better without other people around
You hear it all the time: We humans are social animals. We need to spend time together to be happy and functional, and we extract a vast array of benefits from maintaining intimate relationships and associating with groups. Collaborating on projects at work makes us smarter and more creative. Hanging out with friends makes us more emotionally mature and better able to deal with grief and stress.
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Uses for Tea Beyond the Tea Cup
For millennia, tea has been used for everything for medicinal to social purposes. Learn more about how tea can fit into every part of your day.
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U.S. City Thinks Having Pedestrians Carry Flags Will Keep Them Safe
The idea behind the program is simple: Drivers are more likely to see—and yield to—pedestrians carrying the flags, which make it abundantly obvious that the person is about to cross the street.
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Cardboard invisibility suit
Cardboard invisibility suit
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