Reproduction of the species no longer needs the copulation of a male and a female as scientists have successfully created sperm and eggs from stem cells.
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Machines called "long-range acoustic devices," or LRADs, were used to break-up protests at the G-20 without leaving the kind of visual evidence caused by pepper spray, rubber bullets, or aerosol hand grenades.
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A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in
Pittsburgh to participate in the G-20 protests, then subjected to an
FBI raid this week at his home—all for using Twitter. The FBI's actions drew chilling comparisons to those of the security forces in Iran during the most recent election protests.
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Was yesterday’s Google crop circle logo a fun prank, an homage to HG Wells, or the wisdom of the noosphere being channeled through the search engine giant?
Z was a phone service that played funny homemade recordings to callers. It became internationally famous and was busy day and night. This is the story of how "a young punk kid" fought AT&T's attempt to shut it down.
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We drive cars to the gym to run miles on a treadmill. Is the alienation we feel from our technological society due to a disconnect between physical goals and tech’s “help” in easing our workload?
Industrial designs that consider and emulate nature are more likely to succeed, because they use design principles tested and refined in evolutionary time, and they use materials that renew, replenish, and support life's cycles.
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We mistakenly think nature is infinite, and that scarcity should be a source of profit. We need to combine a recognition of the real scarcity of physical goods with the real abundance of immaterial goods to generate a new and sustainable civilization based on peer to peer principles.
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