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Talking onstage at Code Conference 2016 with Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka, Ford CEO Mark Fields explains how his company is readying for a world where fewer ...
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/lesson-hiroshima-nuclear-weapons-future
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Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama went to Hiroshima to mark the occasion of the use of a nuclear weapon against a civilian population in wartime. He was right to do this. But Obama did not go to Hiroshima merely to make an empathetic gesture. He went to make an argument, reflecting a profound and well-thought-out commitment that has been the basis of much of the foreign policy of his administ
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http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/the-real-secret-of-youth-is-complexity
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Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-zika-spiraled-out-of-control1/
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The virus was a tiny, barely known annoyance. Scientists now think environmental changes made Zika explode into a global crisis
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-23/china-s-futuristic-straddling-bus-could-help-ease-traffic-and-air-pollution
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https://www.cityam.com/with-uber-joining-the-driverless-car-race-will-autonomous-vehicles-be-the-end-of-public-transport/
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Tim Worstall, senior fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, says Yes. Whether it’s Uber that perfects the autonomous vehicle is yet to be revealed: but they
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https://www.dezeen.com/2016/05/19/ron-culver-joseph-sarafian-fabric-forms-cast-concrete-robotic-arms-construction-method-of-the-future/
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Ron Culver and Joseph Sarafian have developed a method of robotically casting concrete in fabric, which could be used in architecture
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/meaning-geography-changing-not-disappearing
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Like so many of Stratfor's contributors, I spend a lot of time thinking about geography. In the past, I have even suggested that geography has been the main force determining the different fates of each part of the planet for the past 20,000 years. But Is the meaning of geography changing so much that it has ceased to mean anything at all?
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https://nowtoronto.com/news/facadism-is-it-an-architectural-plague-or-preservation/
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As a last-gasp practice aimed at saving whats left of our heritage buildings, Toronto has turned to building above, behind and inside them with results that are often bizarre and grotesque
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https://www.fastcompany.com/3059629/these-students-are-developing-bacteria-that-eats-our-plastic-pollution
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Feed the hungry bugs an old plastic bottle, and get CO2 and water back–and it’s from two kids who are still in college.
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https://www.wired.com/2016/05/darpa-wants-underwater-gps-system-seafaring-robots/
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GPS doesn't penetrate the briny deep, so Darpa wants a system that will keep the its ocean-exploring robots on the map.
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/15/a-novel-about-war-with-china-strikes-a-chord-at-the-pentagon/
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U.S. military officers are reading "Ghost Fleet" as a cautionary tale on how to prepare for great power clashes in the digital age.
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/10/how-the-united-states-can-maintain-its-dominance-in-the-pacific-ocean-india-naval-logistics-shared-basing/
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Washington wants India’s help with naval logistics. But is New Delhi scared enough of China to sign the unpopular agreement?
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It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. In this provocative talk, Petra...
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UCLA grad student Gary Li describes his work engineering new rocket technology to get humans to Mars at the 2016 UC Grad Slam. UC Grad Slam is an annual cont...
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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-abbvie-acquired-stemcentrx-2016-4?r=US&%3BIR=T
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-coming-tax-increase-1461797806
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With the deficit projected to hit 5% of GDP in only a decade, the choice is either spending cuts or tax hikes.
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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2016/is-deliverology-right-for-canada/
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The Liberals’ focus on deliverology must not distract from the important work of rejuvenating internal policy capacity.
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https://patentyogi.com/latest-patents/us-navy/us-navy-to-raise-an-army-of-ocean-drones/
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This patent from US navy gives a peek into the future of oceanic warfare. With virtually no bounds and extremely harsh conditions, warfare over and under the ocean is a different ball game altogether. Now the US navy wants to completely eliminate the possibility of human casualties by using a swarm of hybrid drones capable …
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http://curiousmatic.com/the-final-frontier-of-tourism-space/
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Space tourism options are expanding as multiple companies devise ways that make going to space a reality - even for civilians.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/singapore-is-taking-the-smart-city-to-a-whole-new-level-1461550026?mod=e2fb
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Government-deployed sensors will collect and coordinate an unprecedented amount of data on daily life in the city.