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VIDEO: India's plan to make waste useful
2013-07-15 07:10:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
"Upcycling" is the growing trend to tackle India's increasing waste, but what difference will it make? Shilpa Kanna reports.
07.01: The Society for Useful Knowledge
2013-06-13 20:39:33| Powells Books Events Calendar
Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America — an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the "first Drudgery" of settling the American colonies now well and truly past, Franklin announced in 1743 that it was high time the colonists set about improving the lot of humankind through collaborative inquiry. From his idea emerged the American Philosophical Society, an association hosted in Philadelphia and dedicated to the harnessing of man's intellectual and creative powers for the common good. The animus behind the Society was and is a disarmingly simple one — that the value of knowledge is directly proportional to its utility. This straightforward idea has left a profound mark on American society and culture and on the very idea of America itself — and on the world as a whole. From celebrated historian of knowledge Jonathan Lyons comes The Society for Useful Knowledge (Bloomsbury), telling the story of America's coming-of-age through its historic love affair with practical invention, applied science, and self-reliance. Offering fresh, original portraits of figures like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and the inimitable, endlessly inventive Franklin, Lyons gives us a vital new perspective on the American founding. He illustrates how the movement for useful knowledge is key to understanding the flow of American society and culture from colonial times to our digital present.
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Pinterest Teams With Brands for 'More Useful' Pins
2013-05-20 23:34:06| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Pinterest today launched a new branding function for products, recipes, and movies.
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Surface Pro review round-up: Fast, fat, and not enough battery life to be useful
2013-02-06 18:01:54| Extremetech
More than three months after the release of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet, the first full reviews of the Surface Pro are in -- and they're not good. While being lauded for its innovative design and top-notch display, almost every review notes that the Surface Pro is plagued by poor battery life, cumbersome dimensions for a tablet, and weak cameras.