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Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years
“One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.”
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Response to My Readers: Religion and Science
My blog about science illiteracy two days ago has fomented a mini-tempest–and some thoughts.
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Al Gore's Inconvenient Plan
One hundred percent renewable energy won’t come as easily as he thinks.
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Fermi Paradox Points to Fewer Than 10 Extraterrestrial Civilizations
The absence of alien probes visiting the solar system places severe limits on the number of advanced civilizations that could be exploring the galaxy.
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216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate (Part I)
The good news: America’s science literacy rate is up from a pathetic 10 percent in 1988. The bad news: it’s still only 28 percent.
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EmTech Preview: Another Way to Think about Learning
Why I hope kids in Ethiopia can teach the rest of us something profound about education.
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Even Without Accounting Gimmicks, Electric-Car Maker Tesla is Now Profitable
To stay profitable, Tesla needs to keep cutting costs and selling more cars.
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How Obama Was Dangerously Naive About STUXNET and Cyberwarfare
A Times exposé suggests that the White House failed to consider how our own cyberweapons would be used against us.
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The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food
If we don’t reverse the current trend in food prices, we’ve got until August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, say complexity theorists
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