Month: September 2007

Starting in 2014, travellers will see the 40-minute trip cut to just 10 by the driverless Transrapid, or Maglev train, which is able to run at 450 kilometres (280 miles) per hour.

Just answer the following questions, and we will show you the house of your dreams.

Nowadays, adults buy cars marketed to consumers half their age, dress in schoolyard fashions and play with their children in ways adults of previous generations would have found ridiculous. Most have busy lives and adult responsibilities. They are not stunted adolescents. They are something new: rejuveniles.

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Cruise downtown and park yourself at DRV-IN – Manhattan’s only drive-in cinema.

Could mighty pumps be installed in the ocean to mix up the waters and cool the planet?

Is this what it takes to save the world?

Of this sample of the world’s population, eight out of 10 think “human activity, including industry and transportation, is a significant cause of climate change”.

Strangely 9 out of 10 of those surveyed think action is necessary to combat global warming, which would seem to imply that at least 600 million people (one in ten of the world’s population) believe we should be actively attempting to change our climate against natural processes.

The DaVinci Institute has set its sights on creating a museum of future inventions designed around our pursuit of inventions that will create a spot in the history books for people who develop them.

MYTH: “The aftermath of Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history.”–Aaron Broussard, president, Jefferson Parish, La., Meet the Press, NBC, Sept. 4, 2005

MYTH: “This is a once-in-a-lifetime event.”–New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, press conference, Aug. 28, 2005

MYTH: “Perhaps not just human error was involved [in floodwall failures]. There may have been some malfeasance.”–Raymond Seed, civil engineering professor, UC, Berkeley, testifying before a Senate committee, Nov. 2, 2005

MYTH: “They have people … been in that frickin’ Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people.”–New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Sept. 6, 2005

MYTH: “The failure to evacuate was the tipping point for all the other things that … went wrong.”–Michael Brown, former FEMA director, Sept. 27, 2005

MYTH: “We will rebuild [the Gulf Coast] bigger and better than ever.” –Haley Barbour, Miss. Gov., The Associated press, Sept. 3, 2005

MYTH: “You have a major energy network that is down … We could run out of gasoline or diesel or jet fuel in the next two weeks here.”–Roger Diwan, managing director, Oil Markets Group, PFC Energy, Business Week, Sept. 1, 2005

It’s still one of the 10 Worst Disasters of the Last 101 Years.

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Here is an interesting iconic cultural comparison done by Liu Yang, a Chinese-born designer, who was born in 1976, then emigrated to Germany with his family when he was 13.

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In 2008, a documentary film entitled ‘The Man who saved the World‘ is set to be released, perhaps giving Petrov some financial help thanking him for the incredible part he had in keeping the US and the USSR out of a full-blown war.

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