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Diamonds: Natural and unnatural wonders
2014-03-10 01:23:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Would you propose with a man-made diamond?
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Brian Cox's Wonders of Life Brings the Universe-Tromping Physicist Back to Earth
2014-03-05 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
There are three elements that bring a great nature documentary to life: first, you need great video footage; second, you need to infuse the content with a sense of time, scope, and wonder; and third, you need a cool narrator. Brian Cox's Wonders of Life app delivers all three. I stumbled upon the app after Apple highlighted it as an Editor's Choice.
Seven wonders of a hopeful world
2013-12-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: Seven billion people and growing. A quarter of them living in poverty. Unsustainable -- and unequal -- resource use. Landscapes vanishing, along with their nonhuman inhabitants. Global warming upending natural systems. These are tough times on planet Earth. But while sustainability remains far from a global edict, hopeful signs of progress are poking up around the world. In some places, in some cases, we are doing things right, taking steady steps toward a smarter future. Here we offer seven of them...
Google wins DARPAs robotics challenge, wonders if it was a good idea to turn down future military contracts
2013-12-23 18:20:53| Extremetech
DARPA's Robotic Challenge took place in Florida over the weekend, pitting some of the world's most advanced humanoid robots against each other in a series of complex tasks, and rather fortuitously for a famously acquisitive Silicon Valley company, the winning robot was fielded by a company called Schaft -- a Japanese company that was recently acquired by Google as part of its rather sudden segue into robotics. Google now officially, and probably not unintentionally, has its hands on the best humanoid robot in all the land.
Signs and Wonders: Gay groups praise Boy Scouts over Gates' new leadership role
2013-11-04 18:57:39| Telecom - Topix.net
Boy Scout developments. In an unusual move, the Boy Scouts of America tapped former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to be its next president .