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A jaw-dropping new building will put a whole new spin on architectural engineering.
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A jaw-dropping new building will put a whole new spin on architectural engineering.
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Is solar power the heavenly answer to our energy needs? Perhaps. Not only is sunlight clean, abundant, and everlasting — it’s free. Until recently, however, the cost of converting it into electricity was prohibitive — especially when compared with natural gas, which was cheap. But as they say, things change. New technologies are making solar power more cost-effective.
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World hunger could worsen as cropland becomes scarcer and the Earth’s population increases. A Columbia University environmental health scientist thinks the solution lies in building high-rise, indoor farms right in the heart of the world’s cities.
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Nearly half the world’s population lives on less than $2 per day. But abject poverty shouldn’t be tolerated as a natural part of the human condition. Noted physicist and futurist Freeman Dyson believes that technology can help raise people out of destitution. He’s chairman of the Solar Electric Light Fund, which brings affordable solar power to rural areas in the developing world.
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As a 13-year-old girl from Venezuela, Oksana Wall visited Disney World in Florida, and the Magic Kingdom immediately cast a spell on her. “I knew I wanted to work for Disney,” Wall says. “It was such a happy place.” Her father was an engineer, and she was good at math and science, so she was already leaning toward an engineering career. “But that trip made up my mind.”
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