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Micro Payments
Micro Payments The cost of inflating your own tire, the manner of payment – a coin thrown into the tub of water used to check where the air is escaping from. Contexts in which it might be considered...
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Lilly Ledbetter – TIME
Lilly Ledbetter – TIME The first piece of real legislation Barack Obama signed as the 44th President of the United States helps ensure that workers discriminated on the basis of gender have a fair...
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What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science about it (or read more below). A CAPTCHA is a program that can...
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Apollo11 moonwalk footage taped over
But a standard Nasa money-saving measure in those days was to reuse the 14-inch tape reels after several years in storage. Agency officials ultimately concluded that the original Apollo 11 tapes were...
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Re-Engineering the Earth
I f we were transported forward in time, to an Earth ravaged by catastrophic climate change, we might see long, delicate strands of fire hose stretching into the sky, like spaghetti, attached to...
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Entrepreneurs Press On, and Obstacles Fall
Ms. VanDerHorst-Larson is the founder of two technology companies that she expects to have combined revenue this year of $50 million and, she says, have bright prospects for 2010. But for six years,...
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THE COURAGE OF THE PRESENT
Not the newest, but nevertheless essential reading: “The Courage of the Present,” an op-ed piece by Alain Badiou, originally published in Le Monde, 13 February 2010. Translated by Alberto Toscano....
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By now, you have probably heard of the Bloom Box, the green fuel cell device that promises to soon power our homes. After appearing on CBS’ 60 Minutes last week, its sand-based fuel cells generated a...
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Bidoun Library at the New Museum
Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM 235 Bowery New York, NY The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the...
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