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515 Chemicals a Day?! You’ll Be Surprised To Learn What Your Skin Is Absorbing (Infographic) : TreeHugger

At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future - NYTimes.com

Arista Networks Founders Aim to Alter How Computers Connect - NYTimes.com

 

Homework and Jacuzzis as Dorms Move to McMansions in California - NYTimes.com

 

Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed at Alaska archaeology site

 

Chip mimics brain synapse - Boing Boing

 

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Startup to Capture Lithium from Geothermal Plants - Technology Review

 

Prices of Rare Earth Metals Declining Sharply - NYTimes.com

 

U.S. and Australia Seal Expanded Military Ties - NYTimes.com

 

depopulist's Channel - YouTube

 

Jonathan Kirschenfeld and Others Reimagine New York Housing - NYTimes.com

 

Dangerous work: "The Mine" in Guatemala City - The Big Picture - Boston.com

NYPD raiding Occupy Wall Street / Zuccotti Park, set to "New York New York" (video) - Boing Boing

 

Artificial Urban Glacier to Cool Mongolian Capital | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Sustainability Score Turns World Order Upside Down | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Ozark Medieval Fortress | Home

 

Osorb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Watch "Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder Engine" Video at Engineering Videos - Engineering TV

Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack,

 

Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: documentary on the net's hidden physical infrastructure - Boing Boing

 

Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street "bat-signal" projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march - Boing Boing

 

Wire creator to atty gen'l: "Thanks for your interest in another season; end the 

A tour of McMurdo Station, Antarctica - Boing Boing

Draw a Vermeer with just one line - Wall to Watch

 

Versabar VB10000 | Popular Science

 

Big Soil Enhancers Forage Boost | Popular Science

 

Blame Your Crooked Teeth on Early Farmers | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Quiet Push for Agroforestry in U.S. - NYTimes.com

 

Rich New Yorkers Are Driving Custom-Designed Cargo Vans - NYTimes.com

The Cash-and-Carry House - NYTimes.com

 

BBC Nature - 'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic

 

Fate of Euro May Hinge on Italian Savers - NYTimes.com

 

Sliding downhill without brakes | Flabber

 

‘Flash Robs’: Trying to Stop a Meme Gone Wrong | Threat Level | Wired.com

 

Japan - Dekotora Trucks | All The Wrong Places | VICE

The 'Bonus Army' War in Washington

 

We Are the 99.9% - NYTimes.com

 

Charles Martel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Berlin: the City is Wild : TreeHugger

 

Lifestyles of the Stealthy Wealthy - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

 

Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes - NYTimes.com

Chestnuts Worthy of Song, in Your Backyard - In the Garden - NYTimes.com

 

Returning to China, Engineer Finds Jail and Then Limbo - NYTimes.com

 

How Freedom Group Became the Gun Industry’s Giant - NYTimes.com

 

Connecticut/In the Region - Developers Teach Buyers What ‘Green’ Means - NYTimes.com

 

Creating The World's Strongest Artificial Muscles With Biomimicry : TreeHugger

 

Learn a new fabrication technique from DIY prosthetics builders - Hack a Day

Chinese hackerspaces, or, what happens when a government is run by engineers - Hack a Day

 

One percenter asks: "Have You Ever Heard of Anybody Great That's Come Out of the 99 Percent?" - Boing Boing

 

How will world's worst dictators spend Christmas? Hilarious TV ad for South African chicken chain reveals all - Boing Boing

 

China to Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay - China Real Time Report - WSJ

 

Zes gedachte-experimenten in zes minuten | Flabber

 

How to Build Small-Scale Irrigation-Free Hugelkultur Raised Beds : TreeHugger

The Personal Computer Is Dead - Technology Review

 

Tiny Magnets Could Clear Diseases from the Blood - Technology Review

 

HDCP falls to FPGA-based man-in-the-middle attack - Hack a Day

 

How Exercise Benefits the Brain - NYTimes.com

 

Poop trucks of Dubai

 

Transparent Crab Shells Hold Key to Better Solar Cells, Bendable Displays : TreeHugger

Big Brother in the Home Office - NYTimes.com

 

Tar Sands Crude Spills Into Denver's Water Supply : TreeHugger

 

Implementing my paradise

 

Terry Gilliam: the difference between Kubrick (great filmmaker) and Spielberg (less so) - Boing Boing

 

Lean Start-Ups Reach Beyond Silicon Valley’s Turf - NYTimes.com

 

Boom and Bust in Acorns Will Affect Many Creatures, Including Humans - NYTimes.com

Hilarious account of a legal bank-robbery - Boing Boing

 

The Trouble with India's People Car  - Technology Review

 

An Entrepreneur’s Rival in China - The State - NYTimes.com

 

To Sleep on the Subway, Maybe, but to Dream? Poor Chance - NYTimes.com

 

Why Boston Power Went to China - Technology Review

Sewage treatment plants may contribute to antibiotic resistance problem

 

Drie miljoen punten maken één portret | Flabber

 

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Melbourne cops made to look foolish by protesters in tent costumes get vindictive revenge by stripping protester to underwear in park - Boing Boing

 

Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years for corruption - World - Canoe.ca

 

Panoramio - Photo of syncrude's sulphur storage from 1000 feet up - July 2005

U.S. News - NYPD warns banks after letter bomb mailed to CEO

 

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix - IEEE Spectrum

 

Diego Rivera: honoring a big Communist with a Google doodle - CSMonitor.com

 

More Proof That Young People Are Giving Up On The American Dream of A House In The Suburbs : TreeHugger

 

How chicken wire is made - Boing Boing

 

Parallel parking - Boing Boing

Kid builds working farm equipment out of Lego - Boing Boing

 

Poland Skirts Euro Zone Woes, for Now - NYTimes.com

 

Can a Picture Of Your Mother Diagnose Depression? | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Ex-Google Man Sells Search Genius to Rest of World | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

 

A Wooden Engine Powered By Compressed Air - Hack a Day

 

Navy kiss seals the year of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" repeal - Boing Boing

Layer by Layer - Technology Review

 

Four Humvees unceremoniously thrown from a cargo plane - Boing Boing

 

North Korean party rock anthem - Boing Boing

 

In North Korea, Kim Jong-un Moves to Consolidate Power - NYTimes.com

 

Dura-Europos, a Melting Pot at the Intersection of Empires - NYTimes.com

 

Backyard Farmers Out of Necessity. 53 Years On They Show No Signs of Stopping. (Video) : TreeHugger

BBC News - Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals

 

Ghosts in the Machines - Technology Review

 

Proposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

Dec. 28, 1879: Tay Bridge Collapses, Alas | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

 

Foundation readies $25 computer to seed tech talents

 

Photos: China's New/Used Aircraft Carrier Ain't Scary | Danger Room | Wired.com

‘A Great Aridness’ and ‘Bird on Fire’ - Book Review - Drought in the Southwest - NYTimes.com

 

In Brazil, Economic Opportunity Beckons Westerners : NPR

 

Mexico Busts Drug Cartels' Private Phone Networks : NPR

 

Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

 

David Damberger: What happens when an NGO admits failure | Video on TED.com

 

Statisticians Reveal What Makes America Happy  - Technology Review

Genome Research Points to Adaptation Among Early African-Americans - NYTimes.com

 

An Explanation of How Avian Flu Spreads - NYTimes.com

 

Live wire / neutral wire receiving antenna

 

Possible new explanation found for sudden demise of Khmer Empire

 

Risky Rescue for Crippled Air Force Satellite | Danger Room | Wired.com

 

Reinventing the Rear-Engined Wheel | Product Reviews | Wired.com

Could Ancient Pottery Improve Spacecraft Tiles? : Discovery News

 

Stephen Hawking needs a new technician - Boing Boing

 

Natural gas and the trouble with estimating fossil fuel reserves - Boing Boing

 

Dilbert's presidential bid: is technocracy dressed up as libertarianism the natural political home of the engineer? | openDemocracy

 

ChicagoShovels Web Site Gives Lowdown on Snow - NYTimes.com

 

Building Storehouses for the Sun’s Energy, for Use After Dark - NYTimes.com

How to put your logo in a QR code - Hack a Day

 

Patronen zijn overal | Flabber

 

Neural networks control a toy car - Hack a Day

 

Virulent, extremophile whiskey-drinking fungus - Boing Boing

 

ESRL Global Monitoring Division - GRAD Group

 

Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy | Magazine

PetroChina buys entire Alberta oilsands project - Business - CBC News