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African Dynamo
How a Malawian teenager harnessed the power of the wind. William Kamkwamba's parents couldn't afford the $80 yearly tuition for their son's...
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Digital Synesthesia
Want to see with your tongue? Boing Boing's David Pescovitz looks at technology that blurs the boundaries between our five senses. What if you...
Design
Think Globally, Record Locally
The Global Lives Project is creating a video cross-section of humanity. Rumi Nagashima, 22, navigates Tokyo in her wheelchair on the way to a...
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Deception, Inc.
A host of shady online services is making it easy to lie and cheat. Are you sick of lying, cheating, and stealing the old-fashioned way? Of...
News
The “Twitter Revolution”
Social media meets social unrest in Guatemala Guatemala is in the throes of its most intense political convulsions since a bloody 36-year civil...
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Better Living Through Homemade Yogurt
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin explains how fast people can still enjoy slow food. When the economy took a nosedive, I did the same thing a lot of...
Environment
Lake Mead Is Drying Up
Water levels are falling in America's largest reservoir. If it dries up, so could power and water for much of the Southwest. Imagine Nevada's...
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Dahomey Diary: Notes from Benin
Xeni Jardin is a co-editor of Boing Boing, and producer of the blog's daily Boing Boing Video program. In March, 2009, she traveled to the...
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DIY Funerals and the Quest for Authenticity
Boing Boing's David Pescovitz on the merits of burying your dead yourself As cyberspace becomes a "layer" on top of the physical world and we...
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Reviewing the Kindle 2
Boing Boing's Joel Johnson on why Amazon's Kindle 2 is the next step towards ubiquitous e-book readers Today Jeff Bezos held up the Amazon...
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The Quantified Self: You Are Your Data
Boing Boing's David Pescovitz on better living through extensive self-measurement Since 1955, Jerry Davidson has obsessively written down...
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Digital Television Now!
Boing Boing's Joel Johnson on why we should change the channel already The televisions in 6.5 million American households will stop working...
Environment
My Ecologically Correct Move
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin tries out a new kind of moving service Moving sucks. It sucks, it sucks, it sucks, and there's no getting around the...
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The Return of Amateur Science
Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder explains how the natural tinkerers who built the web are starting to hack the world. Last week, while browsing...
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All the Web's a Stage
Boing Boing's David Pescovitz on Truman Syndrome and other pitfalls of "lifecasting" In 1968, Andy Warhol famously forecasted, "In the future,...
News
In the Highlands, Hope
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin reports on reactions to Obama in a Guatemalan village. I have been traveling to Mayan villages in Guatemala with my...
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I Have No Wrinkles And I Must Scream
Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder on the potential sci-fi horrors of Botox I enjoy studying my five-year-old daughter's facial expressions,...
