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Huzzah! A Beer That Prevents Dehydration Now Exists 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Is this one of those better bad ideas, or one of those bad good ideas? Australian researchers at Queensland's Griffith Health Institute have made beer that's not quite good for you, but at least doesn...
A Water Carrier For The Developing World That Cleans As It Rolls 27 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
Millions of people lack access to tap water, and every day, need to lug water to their homes from streams, lakes, and collective faucets. We've written about several helpful tools to help them carry w...
A New Startup Accelerator Helps Hardware Companies Prepare For Success 27 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
When fledgling startups go through a typical accelerator program, they come out armed with business knowledge, industry contacts, and seed funding. For companies working on software, that may be enoug...
What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Spare a thought for people named Ivan, Katrina, and Sandy. Through no fault of their own, they're now associated with horrific weather events that killed people and caused millions of dollars in damag...
Los Angeles Contemplates A Plan For Free Citywide Wi–Fi 27 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
Will Los Angeles become the country's biggest city to boast free, city–wide Wi–Fi? Such a plan may be in the works, based on recent discussions at a city hall meeting last week. Councilman Bob Blumen...
Finding The Calories To Feed A Hungry World, Hidden In Front Of Our Faces 27 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm
The food system is set to come under growing strain as world populations grow and appetites for meat increase––studies show that to meet demand, we could need 60% to 120% more crops by 2050. Of cours...
Food Trucks Could Slowly Be Replacing Fast Food 27 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
Okay, we know: Food trucks are now a thing to be made fun of if you live in a place where they're ubiquitous. Fewer things scream "fad!" or "everything irritating about foodie culture!" than a well–pl...
These Maps Can Predict The Future 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
DigitalGlobe is best known as the company which provides much of Google Earth's satellite imagery. It also has a healthy business keeping global militaries and intelligence agencies appraised of what'...
Are These The Most Influential And Trend–Setting Thought Leaders? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
Although the title sounds like a Fake Jeff Jarvis tweet, "Coolhunting for the World's Thought Leaders" is an actual academic paper by actual academics (Peter Gloor at MIT; Karin Frick and Detlef Guert...
Facebook Makes Us Feel Bad About Ourselves––Here's The Research That Proves It 26 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
How do you feel after spending time on Facebook? Better, worse, or about the same? If you believe many of Facebook's well–produced marketing videos, you'd expect most people to answer that they have a...
