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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
This is good news: Yesterday, Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate...
A defense technology company called QinetiQ-which normally makes all sorts of scary robots and surveillance equipment-is now building a portable...
If al Qaeda needs Afghanistan as a safe haven, we can't afford to leave. The complexities of Afghanistan defy salvation by the answer to any...
The Hurt Locker was good, but will our real soldiers get an award? The Academy Awards wouldn't be the same without a dark horse candidate for...
In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail...
To defend our way of life abroad we may need to reconsider how much junk food it involves at home. It's not every day that former generals and...
The most significant parallel between Afghanistan and Vietnam isn't the potential quagmire abroad. Comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam...
Technological developments have enabled the evolution of warfare from cavemen bludgeoning each other with blunt objects to career soldiers...
A conversation with the director of a powerful new film about notifying families of our war dead. The Messenger tells the tale of a young...
This is a continuing series on the devastation and reconstruction of Haiti. As the story fades from the front pages of newspapers and ...
Unlike soldiers, robots can take the worst of a bomb blast and survive to see another battle. So when an explosive needs to be detonated, the...
There's a problem brewing over the skies of Iraq, and it's not weather related. Thanks to a new generation of cheaper, smaller robots, Iraqi...
The UC Riverside biology professor (and MacArthur grant recipient) Cheryl Hayashi gave a TED talk Wednesday on the astonishing strength of spider...
In a move that sees the human body used as a permanent canvas, the artist Wafaa Bilal is getting a massive tattoo that contains one dot for every...
GOOD and Catalogtree look at the value of U.S. government contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of all the awfulness of war, this is worse. To mark tomorrow's seven-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, this weekend's New York Times...
Not only are robots being used for military offensives, but they are also being deployed to rescue wounded soldiers. These robot medics can...
We've learned about robots that spy, rescue, aid, survey, and defuse. In the final episode of our "Military Robots" series, we encounter robots...
Something's different about the latest climate action road trip barnstorming the country in a biodiesel bus, holding clean energy rallies in...
The Hurt Locker was the big semi-surprise winner at the Oscars on Sunday; it depicts the harrowing life of U.S. Army bomb disposal crews. Some...
