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Who bears the responsibility for the “outsourced emissions” generated by countries who consume vast quantities of goods that are manufactured overseas?
Heavily criticised revelations about an east Jerusalem building plan announced during US Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel have been dismissed by officials as “bad timing.”
If only financial reform was as funny as the comedy sketches being played out on popular comedy website funnyordie.com sighs The Washington Post’s Katrina vanden Heuvel.
With investors leapfrogging on the back of social networking and making investments heavily reliant on Facebook, a Guardian blogger asks “How big is the Facebook economy?”
My soon-to-be seventy year old father called me around dinnertime on Saturday. He was having a problem adding some text to his website, he said, and wanted me to take […]
The recession has been hard on most of us. A Brookings study found that American households lost $13 trillion of wealth—that's more than $40,000/person and about 15% of our net […]
Barbra Streisand said it: “The time has come.” Watching Bigelow ascend the stage was meaningful for many people for many reasons, but meaningful for all women for one: it can […]
For the most part, the FDA doesn’t require that the chemicals used in your shampoos, lipsticks, deodorants, and other personal care products be tested. Does that alarm you? It should. […]
What if you could bid on a parking spot eBay-style? Let's say you have an emergency doctors appointment; you might be willing to pay $50. But if you're just meeting […]
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Twenty-something’s should be reaching out to as many people as possible.
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The right person has to know exactly what they want to change.
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Implementing a new system of shared urban mobility is going to take serious behavioral modification.
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Ryan Chin outlines the other revolutionary green vehicles under development at MIT Media Lab that have the potential to alter urban transportation.
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The automobile of the future could be pink one day and green the next.
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A conversation with the PhD student at MIT Media Lab.
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Cities won't look like "some sort of science-fiction fantasy," but it's likely that technological advances and information overlays will change the way we live in significant ways.
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"It came out of some esoteric backroom research that nobody thought had any huge practical implication whatsoever," says the professor at MIT’s Media Lab. Game-changing technologies in transportation may arise […]
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Imagine a world where you bid on parking spaces eBay-style.
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There is a greater readiness in Europe to deal with public solutions to transportation issues. Plus, there are circumstances that make it easier to do so.
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Bill Mitchell envisions cars that you’ll never have to worry about filling up or plugging in.