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Icelandic Company Cancels Its Summer Hunt For The Endangered Fin Whale

The endangered fin whale will be catching a lucky break this summer, at least off the shores of Iceland. Whaling company Hvalur, the Nordic country’s lone fin whale h...

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Environment

One Of The World's Last Remaining Whaling Companies Is Hanging Up Its Harpoons

One of the world's last whaling companies has announced that it won't be manning the harpoons this summer, deciding it's too hard to market the meat.
Iceland's Hvalur ...

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Sustainable Development

'Metal Gear Solid'-Inspired Prosthetic Limb Sends Email, Charges Phones

To the casual observer, the 25-year-old British man walking down the streets of Austin with a seemingly metallic left arm this weekend might be a cosplayer — a fan of...

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Sustainable Development

The Buddhist Monk Who Uses Space To Teach Spirituality

In a pitch black room, Ryo Kasuga talk?s space as a simulated solar system rotates above my head. Kasuga, however, is no astronomer. He?s a Buddhist monk intent on using th...

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Sustainable Development

This Japanese Band Makes Music With E-Waste

Open Reel Ensemble love producing weird sounds from obsolete tech?the more warped the better. The Japanese musicians connect old tape recorders, television sets, and ventil...

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Thought Factory

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...

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Festivals

Santa Barbara Film Festival TO Host U.S. Premiere OF ‘The Little Prince’

The 31st annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) will kick off with the U.S. premiere of Paramount Pictures’ “The Little Prince.” Based o...

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Trending

Famed Architect Shigeru Ban Builds Quake-Proof Homes From Rubble In Nepal

TOKYO – After twin earthquakes in April and May claimed 9,000 lives and left vast swathes of Nepal in ruins, survivors worried if they reused the brick rubble, they w...

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Sustainable Development

The Japanese Professor Who's Spent Three Decades Perfecting A Human Avatar

?It was different to looking at yourself in a mirror, or looking at your image in a video recording. I saw my image moving as I was moving myself. At that moment, I wondere...

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Thought Factory

In August's Company

This columnist may have missed out on the action for August but what a month it's been! We opened our column with Drishyam, which found remake in several Southern languages...

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