Globalization
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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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Kathmandu: Diplomatic Waters
December 26, 2008
Reporting from the developing world, traveling science writer Gaia Vince relays her first dispatch from the meltwaters of the Himalaya.
climate, development, globalization, policy, research, water
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No Resting on Laurels
October 14, 2008
The Olympics, China's world debut, have ended. Now what?
climate, development, globalization, growth, policy, population
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In Defense of Difference
October 07, 2008
Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.
cities, demographics, development, ethics, globalization, population
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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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China, Revisited
August 12, 2008
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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.
