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Last month, noting the cool new translation platform that TED is using to facilitate translation of the talks it’s put online, we asked for volunteers to translate my TED talk. That talk is now available not only in the original English, but in Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese, with a Hungarian translation completed and translations in [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly more than expected last week, government data showed on Thursday, offering a ray of hope for the anemic labor market recovery.
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HOUSTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - BP may permanently shut the well that caused the worst off-shore oil spill in U.S. history as early as Monday, the company said as speculation grew over assets it might sell to cover mounting costs.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States should alter policy to take account of China’s role as a major player on the world stage if it wants to avoid friction and instability, a major state newspaper said on Thursday.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai questioned on Thursday the willingness of his Western allies to strike insurgent bases in Pakistan given the strong evidence of Islamabad’s support for the Taliban.
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by Julian Rollins
Whether it’s clubbers on the dance floor, soldiers on the go, or just lonely long-distance runners, energy harvested from toiling muscles is a hot topic. Until recently, prototypes have relied on high-impact movements to generate any current to speak of. But the race is on to harness power from the slightest swish of [...]
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Smart growth: did you know it “created the housing bubble”? That’s the shocking inference drawn by a recent post by the normally excellent reporter Jonathan Hiskes over at Grist.
The post cites a recent study, “Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle Between 2000 and 2009,” but Hiskes’ article and its headline (which [...]
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Bill McKibben — some-time guest blogger and the author most recently of the must-read book Eaarth — has a challenging review of my book Straight Up in the Washington Monthly.
He literally challenges me to talk more about political movements on my blog, Climate Progress, such as the one he cofounded, 350.org. I accept.
Indeed, I [...]
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona’s tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control of the issue.
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Bernhard Lehner, an assistant professor at McGill University in Montréal, has created the first accurate and complete map of the world’s river systems, all in the digital domain. This river map allows rivers to be tracked across national boundaries. Lehner hopes that the map will be used to look at the impact of larger issues, [...]
