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...clean water. There are 6,000 deaths from contaminated water every day, according to the U.N., and safe water is one of the world's more urgent problems. Kamen's device uses that extra heat to distill water--boil it and condense it. Nothing new about that Kamen has invented lots of things, but he didn't invent distillation. The trick is to do it using as little energy as possible. However, 1,000 watts of heat won't boil much water, so Kamen developed a closed system, powered by whatever fuel is at hand, that traps the energy released...
...would be outstanding teachers—if they could afford to teach and pay off their loans after college. I don’t want to miss any teachers like Kate. I also have a plan to end our dependence on Middle East oil. Decades ago our country helped invent solar, wind and hydrogen technology, but we’ve never had a president make the case to the American people that we must invest in these renewable resources to increase our security, improve our environment and get us off our unsustainable oil dependency. I will make that case...
Lamont’s convenient wireless Internet has sucked up enough of my time as it is. With Instant Messenger and the Drudge Report at my constant disposal, I’ve spent untold hours neglecting my Justice reading (sorry, Kant) and wondering why God had to invent the laptop. Does he want us to fail...
Except they are—and the most standard of their kind, at that. Everything they hate about guitar rock, its stagnation, reliance on overused cliches and reluctance to invent, is all prevalent in their music. If Stumpf really does like R. Kelly and Jay-Z and Motown as much as he claims, then this much should be obvious...
...Joseph Stalin invent modern marketing? That's the thesis of a new show at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, which argues that the techniques the dictator used to promote communism in the 1930s presage those now used to sell products throughout the free world. Long before the creative directors of Western ad agencies and shortly before Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Stalin understood how to use images to mold public opinion. "It was mass marketing," says Boris Groys, co-curator of Dream Factory Communism - the Visual Culture of the Stalin Era, at the Schirn through early January. "The difference was that...