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What made you finally want to get off the grid? I got a letter from the U.K. government in 2007, saying they had lost my daughter's details. It was pretty stressful experience - they lost her name, her date of birth, my name, my bank account details, our address. It really freaked me out and made me think that if that type of data can be lost with a kid that age, what risk are the rest of us at? (See the top 10 British open moments...
...Vaginas of the Harvard Community,” credited to Colette S. Perold ’11, is a collage of sixteen black-and-white photographs, laid out in a four-by-four grid. Half of the images depict vaginas and half other objects—a head of lettuce, an elongated flame—but even these, in context, take on a distinctly labial character. Now imagine this piece juxtaposed with “Expanding Consent,” a thoughtful, 8000-word interview with feminist activist Jaclyn Friedman, also by Perold. The two were sandwiched together...
...things like create a permanent tax break for companies that invest in research and development, make it easier for foreigners who get science and engineering Ph.D.s at American universities to stick around after graduation, and spend serious time and money improving the nation's infrastructure, including the electric grid and broadband network. Such initiatives will not create many jobs that can be tallied on a spreadsheet. What they will do is more important: lay the groundwork for businesses to innovate and grow...
...Jeffrey Immelt and Caterpillar's James Owens, both of whom supported John McCain. Doerr took the lead on the group's energy subcommittee, drafting a 2009 memo that called for increasing fees on carbon pollution and changing rules to encourage electric utilities to move to a unified smart grid, which would benefit an industry in which he has significant investments...
...focus away from the "bits and bytes" of the Internet to what he called the "batteries and biofuels" of green energy. As of last year, Kleiner Perkins oversaw a fast-growing green-energy portfolio of more than $600 million, including Silver Spring Networks, one of the largest smart-grid providers, and iControl, a company that makes Web-enabled home thermostats. Describing his investments as "missionary" work, Doerr stepped up his political advocacy for the energy savings they could generate. In 2006 he headed a lobbying push that led California lawmakers to adopt the first state limits on carbon emissions, presaging...