"We spend a lot of time looking for our spaceships and jet-packs, but ? and consider this bit, it gets bigger and weirder the more you think about it ? in a matter of days we can genetically sequence a mutant virus that?s jumped the species gap. People tr
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TED video of Stewart Brand: "The book tackles three of today?s most profound transformations ? climate change, urbanization and biotechnology ? in a way that?s part practical guide to damage control, part prescriptive inspiration for a more efficient soci
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Anna Lappe's new Bite Blog explores climate change through the lens of food with up-to-date info, analysis, interviews with experts in the field, tips on diet choices and actions you can take.
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The ethical reverberations of design are part of its nature???positive, progressive, economical, necessary, beautiful, modern. And yet so much contemporary design is about experimenting and tinkering, looking for answers that might not yet have questions
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this is huge. no more x-ray crystallography. potentially dna sequencing with a video camera.