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The Smartest Electric Socket You Ever Saw

2012-02-05T06:55:50Z

(Image: red-dot) Keep forgetting to Plug out? Well prepare to be kicked out. PumPing Tap is a very clever socket that has been fitted with a spring to eject appliances once they have been turned off but left plugged in. In just 10 minutes you...

Mongolia: Unavoidable Ulaanbaatar

2012-02-02T12:38:44Z

I instinctively made it to the office building; it had been two years since I was there and even though the buildings around it had changed, the Ger to Ger office building stood out to me teasing my memory and providing me flashes of deja vu. I remembered the stairs, the odd sculpture outside the [...]

Conference-Slutting Toward Good Governance

2012-01-31T01:34:17Z

2012 looks a lot like a convenient excuse for the Latin American diplomatic jet set to rack up their American Express rewards points while in Cartagena, Brasilia, Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere. Looking through a less cynical filter, 2012 could also be an important opportunity to build strong, international coalitions that [...]

There’s Nothing Like Eating With Your Hands

2012-01-30T06:27:19Z

Kali dosa @ SBPI like eating with my hands. It's one of my favorite things about visiting India, this fork-free (unless you must ask), chop-stick-less way of consuming food. It's efficient, and primal and sensual and nourishing all at once. The rims of...

When A Tree Falls In The Forest, Does It Make… Music?

2012-01-29T20:24:20Z

We've seen some pretty incredible things in our time and we know how amazing wood can be but even we had to admit, we never thought we'd see a slice of tree being played as a record. As unbelievable as it seems, this record player has been hacked to p...

Listening to Farmers’ Voices: An Interview with Eugenio Tisselli Vélez

2012-02-05T19:42:38Z

By Jenna Banning

Sauti ya wakulima (“Voice of the Farmers”) is a collaborative, multimedia database that brings together the knowledge and experience of farmers in the Bagamoyo District in Tanzania. The project was started in March 2011, and is currently being sponsored by the North South Center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and supported ...

A Philly Mall In Perspective

2012-01-30T05:30:43Z

Shoppers ride the escalator inside The Gallery at Market East.

Want To Be Placed In A Movie? Busk At Film Festivals

2012-02-02T12:43:02Z

I was talking with my director friend Randy recently, when he told me the story of his last experience at the Sundance Film Festival. He was walking around the streets of Park City when he came across a band that was busking in the streets. The band had rented a little PA, brought the full band, had [...]

Somalia Still Struck With Starvation and Security Issues

2012-01-30T05:37:27Z

By Leah Baines

Six months after famine struck the Horn of Africa, leaving 12 million people at risk of starvation, the situation in Somalia is still dire. Although the designation of famine in some areas of the country has been lifted, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), a collaboration of 14 leading U.K. aid agencies, says that ...

Hungry For Food Security

2012-01-30T06:06:54Z

By Jeffrey Lamoureux

The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change (CSACC), a roundtable of senior natural and social scientists from across the globe, recently released its Summary for Policymakers. The commission is working to promote concrete policy recommendations toward achieving food security in the face of climate change, and its summary is a synthesis of ...