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Sustainable Development

Farm Researchers Are Using Military Face-Recognition Software To Inspect Grapes

Somewhere in a field in South Carolina, a robot drives slowly through the dry soil between tall, swaying rows of sorghum: a nutrient-rich grain. The robot scans the stalks ...

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Sustainable Development

The Journey Of NASA’s Smartest Satellite Finally Comes To An End

NASA’S HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL Earth Observing-1 satellite mission was supposed to last just a year. It did that, and then survived 16 more—all the while testing NA...

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Hollywood

Kevin Costner, Water Planet Team Up To Advance Sustainable Water Reuse

In 2009, famed actor and environmentalist Kevin Costner and Eric Hoek, then a professor of engineering at UCLA, joined forces to develop a system aimed at cleaning up oil &...

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TV

Acting, No Child’s Play

It’s not often that an episode or sequence gets lifted to a level by some outstanding acting. It’s not necessary that the sterling performance is from an adult ...

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Kaleidoscope

The Stars Foretell

Lucinda Riley’s The Shadow Sister is like reading two novels in one--it’s a thick tome, and for fans of romance and history, an absorbing read. It is the third ...

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Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', It Isn't: Documentary Reveals The Brutal Reality Of Manual Scavenging

Divya Bharathi’s powerful documentary Kakkoos (Toilet), about the prevalence of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu, is very difficult to watch – imagine what it is...

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Environment

March for the Environment

In the wake of Donald Trump's election as President of the United States, it is likely that the Environmental Protection Agency, which has promoted clean air and safe drink...

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Human Rights

Exclusive: Melinda Gates On The Power Of Women Coming Together

When women come together, change happens. I think I’ve always known this intuitively, but I really started paying attention 15 years ago, when I visited a village in ...

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This Coimbatore NGO Is Making Toilets More Accessible To The Disabled At The City’s Railway Station

Even though crores of commuters travel through trains in India on a daily basis, railway stations for the most part woefully remain inaccessible to those who have movement ...

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Environment

Shell Is Abandoning Canada’s Oilsands

In a move that might be indicative of flagging international confidence in the Canadian Oil sands, Shell has announced it will exit most of its oil extraction projects in A...

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