Willow Garage hosted the first robots graduation in history last night in their Menlo Park offices on Willow Road, the same road where Google was birthed.
CEO Steve Cousins and founder Scott Hassan gave an emotional...
Last night, I had the pleasure (and it was a pleasure) of dancing with a PR2 robot at Willow Garage, the same PR2 that will go off to UPENN next week with the UPENN recipient...
The suicides at Foxconn have highlighted the issue of highly stressful working conditions in the global electronics industry. Foxconn has responded with psychologists, punch bags, swimming pools, and asking employees to promise not to kill...
"This Full Moon in Sagittarius encourages us to expand -- our minds, our vision, our faith, our perception" —@astrogrrl
The Gulf Oil Spill has been troubling me no end. Sitting here in California, it's raining, and...
It's May (well for a few more days at least) and in California, that means strawberries. When we drove to Monterey a few weeks ago, we could see strawberry fields stretching across the terrain, red,...
Crossposted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
For pastoralist communities like the well-known Maasai in Kenya, livestock keeping is more than just an important source of food and income; it’s a way of life that has...
It has to be said…and this may be controversial…
Eating at McDonalds in a foreign country does NOT make you a despicable traveler.
In all honestly – up until I took my career break and traveled around...
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer of electronics products for Apple and many others, has reported 9 suicides among its workforce and is fighting allegations of being a sweatshop. It’s not the only tech company with a...
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