Yesterday the Daily Graphic - the Ghana newspaper that is something of a mouthpiece for the govt - had an article that Ghanaians up north were crossing the border into Togo to flee ethnic violence. ...
This is the last post of a three part series on overcoming self-imposed obstacles to independent travel. Catch up on the first and second posts of the series– Banking the Benjamins and Fear and Loathing...
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...
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