September 7, 2010
How can we start thinking about sustainability as intrinsic part of good design, instead of an...
- PARIS (Reuters) - French trade unions secured a show of strength on Tuesday with strikes and massive street protests against unpopular pension reforms that President Nicolas Sarkozy says he is determined to implement.
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Forget about the potential damage by invasive Asian carp, another invasive species, the quagga mussel is likely to destroy the Lake Michigan ecosystem long before the bottom-feeding...
Dean Kamen, Lego, children, and biomedical engineering are not an intuitive mix of elements, but they're all part of the FIRST Lego League Body Forward Challenge.
Inventor Kamen's FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) organization is sponsoring the...
Bamboo is round and hollow while floors are flat and solid, so to make bamboo floors they cut the stuff up into strips and compress it with resin into solid chunks, that can be sliced into flooring. They make a lot of it in China; they also make a lot of regular furniture and produce a lot of waste. Somebody had the idea of taking that scrap and...
If design and technology conferences were cities, which cities would they be?
We might imagine South by Southwest Interactive to be a sprawling and disjointed metropolis that has developed organically, like Bangkok. The various...
- BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Afghan and NATO forces are planning an offensive to clear Taliban insurgents from areas around the city of Kandahar by late November, the NATO commander for southern Afghanistan said on Tuesday.
Track bike aficionados, feast your eyes on the ultimate Fixie. Made from wood and iron, this front-drive bike from 1870 weighed a ton and probably provided a ride marginally more comfortable than being thrown down a staircase.
The bike was spotted on the ...- MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through a major refinery in northern Mexico on Tuesday, state oil firm Pemex said, but officials were unable to confirm reports that several people were killed.
