Author: kevin

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May 26, 2011

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It was almost exactly a year ago that Diaspora started raising money on Kickstarter. A few weeks later, they had raised $200,000 from nearly 6,500 backers. Why so much excitement? Because Diaspora was aiming to be a Facebook alternative. That hasn’t exactly worked out. At least not yet. But now another startup is about to...

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May 26, 2011

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A new survey determines that China is the most attractive country for renewable energy installations based on the size of its national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures, and suitability for individual technologies. In a resource-constrained world, any country with the ability to build out a clean energy infrastructure is going to have an advantage. While...

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May 20, 2011

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The Volkswagen Camper Van Tent. If you love music, mud and Mother Nature you're probably heading to a camp site at some point this summer. But why take shelter in some dull, conventional tent when you can recreate the Summer of Love in the hippie-tastic VW Camper Van Tent. ...

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May 19, 2011

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Our generation's future is headed on a one-way trip down the toilet -- that is, unless we do something fast. This year's graduating class faces the most college debt in history, mass layoffs on a regular basis, and, let us not forget that only 1 out of 4 college seniors will have jobs upon graduation this...

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May 17, 2011

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A while back I spent the day working with a group of about 150 educators who’d been brought together by one of their state’s regional service centers. I fine it a particularly cruel thing to do, forcing a group of adults to spend six-hours paying attention to one person. So on this day, I decided...

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May 17, 2011

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A project, two years in the making, was revealed this week at the Computer Human Interaction conference in B.C. The device created by students from Texas A&M University is called ZeroTouch and looks like an empty picture frame. Don’t let the looks deceive you, though. It is equipped with infrared sensors and embedded LEDs which...

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May 13, 2011

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Wasn’t it just the other day that teachers confiscated cellphones and principals warned about oversharing on MySpace? A discussion on Today's Meet from Erin Olson's English Class in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, about a poem called "To the L Now, Erin Olson, an English teacher in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, is among a small but growing cadre of educators...