Borders
“I think that all of us, particularly we Americans, need to become citizens of this boundary-less world without borders. We need to see, experience, and know the peoples and the problems of other nations.” — Nina Fedoroff
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Hungry for Land
April 27, 2009
Growing food in foreign lands has a long history. But the 21st century version of outsourced agriculture presages something fundamentally new.
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Nepal: Wireless in the Mountains
February 16, 2009
A home WiFi kit and a solar-powered relay station transform healthcare and education for a remote village in western Nepal.
borders, community, development, globalization, innovation, technology
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Photo Essay: Darwin Slept Here
February 12, 2009
A twentysomething adventurer retraces the voyage of the Beagle, recapturing a young Darwin, and the growing pains of a continent.
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Turning a Blind Eye
September 25, 2008
An image said to reveal an "unknown" tribe instead exposes a history of our ignorance and greed.
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What Happens When Science is Made in China?
November 23, 2005
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
