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Amazon.com: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century: Books: Alex Steffen,Al Gore,Bruce Sterling

emmineb — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:20:06 GMT

Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. Brought together by Alex Steffen, co-founder of the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com, this team of top-notch writers includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, sustainable food expert Anna Lappé, and many others. Renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister brings his extraordinary talents to

Blackwater: When Things Go Wrong (continued) (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)

emmineb — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:57:53 GMT

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Dark Roasted : American Supersonic Airliners: Race for a Dream

emmineb — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:29:46 GMT

It all started in 1952 with small-scale studies of SST designs by Boeing, but things heated up significantly when in 1962 the governments of Britain and France decided to join efforts in the creation of a supersonic "Concorde" airplane. The intrepid Russians also came up with the Tu-144 (no less capable, but plagued by accidents). The American government nearly panicked and responded with its own program SCAT (Supersonic Commercial Air Transport) in 1963, which got endorsement from President Kennedy himself. The race for dominating supersonic airways was on. (At that time it was believed that all future commercial aircraft would be supersonic). The goal was to produce a commercial aircraft capable of carrying 250 passengers (twice as many as the Concorde) a

EagerEyes

emmineb — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:32:00 GMT

Feynman's Talk: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics

emmineb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:25:57 GMT

This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright. It has been made available on the web at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html with their kind permission. Information on the Feynman Prizes Links to pages on Feynman For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter 4 of Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technical introduction to nanotechnology is Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992. I imagine expe

G A P M I N D E R: HOME

emmineb — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:54:00 GMT

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How to Virtualize Your Workforce - wikiHow

emmineb — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:16:30 GMT

Enterprise Mobility: The ability for an enterprise to communicate with suppliers, partners, employees, assets, products, and customers irrespective of location. <>

John Maynard Keynes - Wikiquote

emmineb — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:24:13 GMT

LifeClever

emmineb — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:36:52 GMT

How to cure traffic jams» <> <> <> The strategy is to simply maintain a large space in front of you instead of instinctively speeding up to close any gaps. It’s counter-intuitive, but according to his own experiments, it works. Here’s what he says: Traffic jams on highways are often triggered where two lanes must merge into one. Lanes of cars cannot merge if there are no large gaps between cars. Therefore, drivers who create large gaps between cars will ease this type of traffic jam.

LiveLeak.com: Extremely strange but cool jumping spider mating behaviour

emmineb — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:56:02 GMT

Marked as: Featured A male jumping spider (Salticidae) is trying very very hard to excite a female jumping spider. He taps, he scrapes, he turns and twists...he stops!...quite funky! Make sure you turn up the volume on your speakers...the sounds are half the act!