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Zen And The Art Of Dying Well

What is the ?right? way to die? We?re experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. ?Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,? by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling b...

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Sustainable Development

Why Spacex's 'Next Few Missions' Will Attempt To Land A Rocket At Sea.

A barge landing attempt has already been announced for Sunday?s Jason 3 NASA satellite launch from California?s Vandenberg Air Force Base, but SpaceX tells me drone boats w...

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Sustainable Development

After A Brutal Audit, NASA Unveils Its New Asteroid Detection Program

In the great pantheon of apocalyptic events, few scenarios inspire more dread than the threat of a cataclysmic asteroid impact. After all, we know that Earth has already ta...

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Festivals

Catching The Sun' Opens Transitions Film Festival

US filmmaker Shalini Kantayya will open the 5th annual Transitions Film Festival with the Australian Premiere of her feature documentary Catching the Sun. Shalini Kantayya ...

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Sustainable Development

Nasa?s Latest Rover Concept Is Inspired By Worms And Amoebas

Every rover we have sent to explore other planets has had the same basic ?lab-on-wheels? design, with the exception of the adorable skiing Prop M robots of the Soviet space...

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Sustainable Development

Smart Spoon Helps Parkinson's Patients Feed Themselves

Enter GYENNO’s Smart Spoon, a stabilization utensil device that offsets 85 percent of unwanted tremors for users affected by diseases like Parkinson’s. The spoo...

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Sustainable Development

How Video Technology Is Bringing Innovations For India’s Farmers

In a video available on Youtube, Daulat Ram Kuswaha, a farmer from Madhya Pradesh, sheds light on the plantation of brinjal ? starting from soil preparation to seed plantin...

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Sustainable Development

A Scorecard For Companies With A Conscience

Eleven years ago, the Vermont-based ice cream-maker Ben and Jerry?s found itself in a position other companies might have found enviable. Several firms were bidding to buy ...

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Sustainable Development

Beyond The Hype: This Is The Tech We Expect To Lay Hands On In 2016

CES, the huge annual consumer electronics show in Vegas, acts as something of a starter pistol for the year in tech. Somewhere beneath the relentless PR of the CES hype mac...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX's Vertically Landed Rocket In Shape to Fly Again

On New Year?s Eve, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted a tantalizing bit of news in the wake of the company?s historical vertical landing: not only did the company pull off the ve...

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