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The world’s leading news organizations and Twitter’s 200 million users have developed a symbiotic, if sometimes troublesome, relationship (New post: Can we trust Twitter?

The wind turbine would convert wind to energy without any moving parts.

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A far cry from the unsustainable, chemical-dependent, industrialized agriculture system that dominates the American landscape today, Russia's agricultural system, which is not technically a system at all, is run by the people and for the people.

 

Thanks to government policies there that actually encourage autonomous family farming, rather than cater to the greed of chemical and biotechnology companies like they do here in the states, the vast majority of Russians are able and willing to grow their own food on privately-owned family plots known as "dachas."

 

Russia's Private Garden Plot Act, which was signed into law back in 2003, entitles every Russian citizen to a private plot of land, free of charge, ranging in size from 2.2 acres to 6.8 acres. Each plot can be used for growing food, or for simply vacationing or relaxing, and the government has agreed not to tax this land. And the result of this effort has been phenomenal, as Russian families collectively grow practically all the food they need.

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--- For Non-Hungarian viewers -------------------------- This is an interview with György Egely about cold/dusty fusion which is a modern, cheap, renewable, sustainable method for energy-production and heating.

The world's largest social network has more room to grow with the opening of a new datacenter in the Midwest.

Strapped with a special engine and scuba tank, this motorcycle is speeding its way toward a James Dyson Award.

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NASA scientists are researching low-energy nuclear reactors that can be employed in the household.

 

And it does not use hot fusion, the union of hydrogen atoms into larger elements that powers the sun and stars.

 

Instead, a low-energy nuclear reactor (LENR) uses common, stable elements like nickel, carbon, and hydrogen to produce stable products like copper or nitrogen, along with heat and electricity.

 

“It has the demonstrated ability to produce excess amounts of energy, cleanly, without hazardous ionizing radiation, without producing nasty waste,” said Joseph Zawodny, a senior research scientist with NASA’s Langley Research Center.

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Media that spy on and data-mine the public are capable of destroying humanity's most precious freedom: freedom of thought. 

 

Ensuring that media remain structured to support rather than suppress individual freedom and civic virtue requires us to achieve specific free technology and free culture goals.

 

In this talk, Eben Moglen offers suggestions about how the Free World should meet the challenges of the next decade.

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5 Big Tech Predictions for 2013
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This past year has been full of surprises, from Google's Project Glass to the rise of 3-D printing's "maker movement" after nearly two decades of the technology's existence.

Imagine what you might do if you could print your own solar panels. That's kind of the dream behind Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein's Solar Pocket Factory -- although they see it more as the "microbrewery" of panel production rather than a tool for everyone's garage.

 

With over $70,000 of backing from a successful Kickstarter campaign, the inventors are now working on refining the prototype.

 

If all goes well, by April they'll have a machine that can spit out a micro solar panel every few seconds. In the meantime, Frayne stopped by Flora Lichtman's backyard with a few pieces of the prototype to explain how the mini-factory will work.

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