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INFO HUB The official website of the Department of Tourism both promises and delivers. Offering useful travel tips and an exhaustive list of places to go, it also has a fun trivia section perfect for predeparture dinner conversations. Example: the yo-yo, which means "come back" in Tagalog, is Philippine...
So although the rats may sound like cyborgs, they are really just rodents that follow instructions. And although they fit into tiny spaces and are more or less expendable, they are less useful in many ways than bloodhounds or bomb-sniffing dogs--or even primitive robots, which will roll mindlessly...
Recycling as we know it is stupid, or so say architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press; 208 pages). The environmentalist mantra of reduce, reuse and recycle is based on the singularly flawed idea, according to the...
“In large part, my enthusiasm for wireless is related to the heavy use of the Leverett dining hall as a study space in the evenings,” said Georgi. “I think that having wireless there will make the dining hall even more useful...
“People who do wireless computing find a whole new way of working,” Steen said. “You’re not bound to your desk. It really does make it a whole lot of difference. It makes your computer a lot more useful...