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3 hrs ago | Fast Company

What Is "Industrial Design"?

This is a question my dad, Read Viemeister, and his teachers at Pratt, Rowena Reed, Donald Dohner, and Gordon Lippincott, were trying to answer way back in the 1940s! In the spring of 1943 Donald Dohner, chair of the industrial design department at Pratt Institute, proposed to Charlie Whitney of Whitney Publications that he add an industrial design ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Industrial Design (Product Design), Pratt Institute, Science / Technology, New York

8 hrs ago | Rediff.com

PM's daughter among Infosys Prize winners

U pinder Singh , daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was one of the recipients of the inaugural Infosys Prize who were felicitated at a function in New Delhi on Monday.

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Related Topix: Infosys Technologies, Software, Manmohan Singh, Hamid Ansari, World News, India, Asia, Science / Technology

Mon Jan 04, 2010

Examiner.com

New on DVD and Blu-Ray: 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs'

I had the opportunity to view this film in IMAX/3-D, this being the first time I've ever experienced the 3-D side of film.

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Related Topix: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Kids, Family, Science / Technology

538dotcom

Putting the [R] in [R]asmussen?

ThinkProgress has discovered , by way of a cool new invention known as The Internet, that Scott Rasmussen has in fact conducing polling on behalf of partisan clients, in particular the RNC and the Bush re-election campaign , both during 2003-04. This appears to contradict all but the most absurdly lawyerly readings of a statement on Rasmussen ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Science / Technology

Malaysian National News Agency

Electronic Invention Centre In Algeria In 2010

The national union of Algerian inventors plans to create an electronic invention centre by the end of 2010, Algerian news agency reported quoting Kharoubi Mohamed, the union's president, as saying on Thursday in Oran, 432km west of capital Algiers.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Salt Lake Tribune

Culture Vulture: Vulture 2009: Donny, Dooce and Chaffetz's tech wars

The Culture Vulture looks back on 2009: January>> Rep. Jason Chaffetz lost a leg-wrestling match to Stephen Colbert, and then -- because he had apparently forgotten about the invention of videotape -- disputed the results.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Sundance Film Festival, Utah, Utah Government, Stephen Colbert, Science / Technology

Sun Jan 03, 2010

EbizQ

2010 Watchlist: People-Oriented Architecture

With hindsight, I believe we can look back over the decade just finished and see ten years in which a fundamental transformation took place in the culture of computing, one that finally acknowledged the central role that people - the ultimate end users - play in computing.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Computers

ETaiwanNews.com

A New Year's resolution: Don't accept U.S. decline

Can't quite settle on a New Year's resolution? How about this: Resolve not to repeat the media's mantra of America in decline.

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Related Topix: Prison, Life, Holidays, New Year's Day/Eve, Science / Technology, Opinion

NZ Herald

Celebrating success: Ideas are the easy part

In part four of a series celebrating entrepreneurial success, Diana Clement talks to some No 8 wire inventors who have been there.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Sat Jan 02, 2010

By Common Consent

Driving home: reflections on cars, domesticity, and the environment

January 2, 2010 - Natalie B. Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI displays trains, planes, and automobiles that reveal the history of their technical evolution.A On display are early vehicles - including steam and electric powered cars - some made by the many auto companies that died out early on.A Walking through the exhibits one can see the many ...

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Related Topix: Dearborn, MI, Electric Vehicle, Science / Technology

Seacoast Online

Editorial on libraries missed the mark

The editorial of Dec. 15 regarding libraries is disconcerting for many reasons. First, the language: "Although property owners in many communities pay for the libraries through taxes, they're utilizing their services more than ever." Huh? Later, there are the "facts:" "More than 200 years ago, when many communities in this part of the country were ...

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Related Topix: Libraries, Peterborough, NH, Science / Technology, Opinion

Peoples Republic of South Devon

Uncontrolled Mosquito use discriminates against young people, says its inventor

The creator of the mosquito device, which emits a high-pitched squeal only audible to those under 20, has condemned the uncontrolled use of the machine to create no go areas for teens and youngsters, after it was used at Teignmouth train station during the school run, but there's still no plans to regulate its use.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Devon County, England, United Kingdom,

Cleveland.com

New on DVD: 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,' '50 Dead Men Walking' and 'Big Love,' season three

" Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs " Anna Faris Sony An unappreciated inventor creates a device that rains tasty food from the sky.

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Related Topix: Big Love, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Science / Technology, Comedy, Irish Republican Army, Lorna's Silence, Movies

The Age

Macca's loses a menu guru

THE inventor of the McDonald's quarter pounder, Al Bernardin, has died of a stroke, aged 81.

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Related Topix: Restaurant Management, Mcdonalds, Science / Technology, Life, Hamburger, Fremont, CA

Fri Jan 01, 2010

The Hindu

City to host Children's Agriculture Science Congress

Thiruvananthapuram: The Indian Agriculture Association has joined hands with the Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action and the Agri Friends Forum for Promotion of Agriculture to organise a State-level Children's Agriculture Science Congress here on January 22 and 23.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Science / Technology

Gouverneur Times

P&G open to outside ideas, but no kitty Swiffers

A bit farfetched? Executives at consumer-products king Procter & Gamble Co. thought so, too, and sent the idea to the discard pile.

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Related Topix: Procter and Gamble, Household Products, Science / Technology

Florida Times-Union

Inventions: Modern miracles

Time magazine got this started with an issue devoted to great inventions. So we asked members of E-Mail Interactive Group to suggest the best inventions of all time, and the inventions they would like to see.

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Related Topix: Audiology, Medicine, Jacksonville Metro, Opinion

Missourian

Connecticut wordsmith creates home for misfit terms

Town Historian Ron Gagliardi has been snubbed by the folks at Merriam-Webster Dictionary for more than 40 years, so now he's going to throw the book at 'em. Gagliardi, 62, is starting a wordcoining contest and inviting wordsmiths everywhere to submit their long-snubbed entries to a project he thinks may produce some new entries for the big book of ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Thu Dec 31, 2009

Christian Science Monitor

A New Yeara s resolution: Dona t accept US decline

The media are full of reports of the worst decade, America in decline, the end of the US century.

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Related Topix: Prison, Life, Holidays, New Year's Day/Eve, Science / Technology

WisInfo

Blunt observation: 'Young Victoria' more love story than historical biography

Emily Blunt has a suggestion for all those sticklers who demand real history in their film biographies.

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Related Topix: The Young Victoria, The Great Buck Howard, Sunshine Cleaning, Australia, World News, Science / Technology

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