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• Human Spirit

  It's pretty amazing what human beings are capable of, it seems that no matter what life throws at us we find a way to survive and thrive. Make sur...

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  Cloud Seeding To Cool The Planet

  How imminent is catastrophic and sudden global warming? Some scientists believe that such an event is just around the corner, and are researching how...

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  Manufactured Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky discusses his work

  The first Edward Burtynsky photograph that I remember seeing was a dark, flat landscape cut through the middle by a river flowing bright red. At the ...

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  Saturn’s Strange Moon, Iapetus

  The Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn and observing the planet and its moons since July of 2004 (Cassini’s partner, the Huygens pro...

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  The Biodiesel Mule

  This is a video showing off the model 2008 Volkswagen Mule, a new, clean, diesel car. It’s designed for use on the highway— Volkswagens were orig...

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  Making Biodiesel At Home

  It is the kind of garage where a stranger walking in will see chaos; but among the gas barrels and fixtures, tubs of grease and auto parts, everything...

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• Kevin Kelly on How Technology Evolves

  In a thought-provoking (and slightly tongue-in-cheek) twenty-minute lecture, Kevin Kelly dares to ask: what is technology? What does technology want?...

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  Dan Dennett on Consciousness

  How well do you know your own mind? How well do you understand its inner workings? And can you really trust it, to tell you what it’s seeing? Our...

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  Jay Leno's Biodiesel Sports Car

  Who says eco-friendly cars have to look strange? And who says they have to be slow? Not Jay Leno— he had General Motors custom build him a sports ...

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  GlowBots: Robots That Make Friends

  A small group of cylinder-shaped robots, topped with glowing, circular patterns of light, seems to be what comprises a pet these days. GlowBots are s...

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