What did you do last week? Did you build a a 104-foot tall Lego tower, made of 50,000 bricks, with a team of kids who can pretty much not even talk? Didn’t think so! More »
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From Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com: TAX THE RICH!
Tax the rich! That’s how California Governor Jerry Brown wants to solve the state’s growing budget crisis that now nears $16 billion.
From Technology Review RSS Feeds: Antimatter Propulsion Engine Redesigned Using CERN’s Particle Physics Simulation Toolkit
Latest simulation shows that the magnetic nozzles required for antimatter propulsion could be vastly more efficient than previously thought–and built with today’s technologies
Smash a lump of matter into antimatter and it will release a thousand times more energy than the same mass of fuel in a nuclear fission reactor and some 2 billion times more than burning the equivalent in hydrocarbons.
From Gizmodo: How Scientists Suck the Salt Out of Seawater With Electricity
Potable water is both a finite and renewable resource. While it is infinitely recyclable, the Earth’s stores of fresh water at any point are limited. So when humanity’s booming populations drain these reserves faster than they can be replenished, shit gets real. And this is how we fix it. More »
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From WSJ.com: What’s News US: Qatar Airways May Delay A380 Deliveries
Qatar Airways said it won’t take delivery of five A380 super jumbos until the airline knows plane-maker Airbus has a permanent fix for faults in the aircraft’s wings.
From Morning Edition: Columbia University Janitor Graduates With Honors
When Gac Filipaj fled war-torn Yugoslavia in 1992, he became a refugee in New York. He took a janitor’s job at Columbia University because it included free tuition. But he first had to learn English. After a dozen years, he received a bachelor’s degree in classics over the weekend.
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