Andrew Price
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Solar Panels in Space! With the Help of Lasers, It's Possible. Can we get electricity for Earth by putting solar panels in space? A new analysis suggests that one of the major problems can actually be overcome.
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Bummer: Carbon Emissions Are Back Up With the economy sputtering along again (for now), carbon emissions are back up. It's our current Catch-22: Good economic news is bad climate news.
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Outside the Box: Artists Stage 30 "Planter Interventions" Across Toronto Toronto's crumbling planter boxes have gotten a lot more interesting, thanks to Sean Martindale and a small army of artists and gardeners.
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Intermission: Manhattan in Motion Here's a wonderful stop-motion animation of Manhattan's bustling streets, made over the course of a month by photographer Josh Owens.
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A Hummer a Treehugger Can Love Meet the tiny electric Hummer HX. It's perfect for getting around a beach resort. Off-roading in Panama? Probably not.
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An App That Organizes Your City by Travel Time Mapnificent is a map application that provides a brilliant new way of looking at your local geography. Why didn't Google think of this?
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The Perfect People to Repair Wind Turbines? Rock Climbers When wind turbines need maintenance or repairs, you want people who are comfortable working 300 feet above ground, hanging from a rope.
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Behold the Gorgeous Solar Farms of Le Mées, France Forget about carbon, solar farms are also just really nice to look at.
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The New Nissan Leaf Ad: Humorless, Brilliant, or Both? The new ad for Nissan's electric car features scenes from a smoggy alternate reality in which our computers and cell phones spew out exhaust.
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A Live Reading of Ulysses on Twitter So you want to read James Joyce's famously impenetrable modernist masterpiece, but you can't seem to take your eyes off the Internet? Problem solved.
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Infographic: Just How Crowded Are California's Prisons? The Supreme Court has ordered California to ease prison overcrowding. So how bad is it? And what kinds of crimes are all those inmates locked up for?
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Intermission: Hey You! What Are You Listening To? A guy walks the streets of New York asking pedestrians with headphones what they're listening to. Enjoy the awesome video he made.