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Are we too hooked on oil to face the consequences of our addiction?
2013-08-08 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Few people would put the West Midlands town of Dudley at the centre of world history. Yet former oil executive Gary Kendall credits the British coal-mining town with setting in motion a global energy system that could jeopardise our very existence. In 1712 Thomas Newcomen introduced his revolutionary steam engine. The breakthrough machine burned coal, to create steam, to spurt out subterranean water, to dig deeper in Dudley's pits. Deeper mines meant greater coal production, which warmed more homes...
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Hooked! X-47B comes in for a carrier landing
2013-07-10 20:39:42| CNET News.com
Don't try this with your backyard drone. The X-47B has made its first arrested landing on an aircraft carrier, and the world of unmanned aircraft may never be the same. [Read more]
Hooked Up: It's the best of celebrity tech. Exposed.
2013-04-19 20:34:24| CNET News.com
The only show where the world of celebrity collides with the world of technology. [Read more]
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Caffeine: The science of why were all hooked
2013-02-13 16:57:13| Extremetech
Despite many theories, and many more studies, the exact mechanisms of how caffeine energizes our minds and bodies are still far from understood. With new discoveries in genetics, and new methods to quantify metabolic variables, the incidentals of coffee consumption can now be counted as more than ritual -- they have become science
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