문서 (28)
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- Theo Jansen: My creations, a new form of life
- Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own. I w...
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- World Leaders Urged to Meet Development Goals by 2015
- In September, world leaders met in New York City to discuss progress on the Millennium Development Goals they set ten years ago. Five years remain to meet eight goals to reduce hunger, poverty and dis...
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- Surviving a Drought: A Farmer's Old-Fashioned Lessons
- This summer, the remains of what had been Hurricane Isaac moved over the American Midwest. The storm brought rain to areas suffering from a severe drought. But the rain came too late to save many farm...
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- How an Allowance Helps Children Learn About Money
- Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. The purpose is to let children learn from experience at an age when financial mistakes are not very costly. The amount of money ...
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- South Korea Tops 'Information Society' Report
- Falling prices are fueling growth in high-speed Internet services, especially in developing countries. Recently the International Telecommunication Union released its "Measuring the Information Societ...
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- A Shelter for Abused Animals, Where Volunteers Also Find Healing
- Ellie Laks started the Gentle Barn Foundation in California. Her group gives a home to animals it rescued from abuse or in need of care. When recovered, the animals spend time with troubled young peop...
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- Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
- Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday...
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- How to Make Your Own Solar Water Heater
- Solar water heaters are used around the world and are not very difficult to build. The system we are going to describe is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan. Since then, it has ...
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- Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
- 0:11I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother sa...
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- Living in a World With Facial Recognition
- A new study looks at privacy in a world where computers can increasingly recognize faces in a crowd or online. Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylv...
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