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How the Salt Flats of Western Utah Could Bring Windpower to LA

Each turbine in the farm will be bigger than the Empire State Building.
Duncan Geere
Oct 15, 2014 3 min read

Making the “Clean” Episode of How We Got To Now

Steven Johnson explains how the show was put together
Matt Locke
Oct 15, 2014 2 min read

Making the “Time” Episode of How We Got To Now

Steven Johnson explains how the show was put together.
Matt Locke
Oct 15, 2014 2 min read

Give Us Smarter Cities, Block by Block

The benefits of smart cities need to be rolled-out gradually to be realistically delivered in our lifetimes.
Scott Smith
Oct 14, 2014 2 min read

Meet the Swimming Robots Measuring the Arctic

Autonomous underwater drones will measure melting ice for months at a time.
Mark Harris
Oct 13, 2014 2 min read

Solving Medical Mysteries Through Crowdsourcing

It's no WebMD–it's better.
Rachel Nuwer
Oct 10, 2014 2 min read

How a Musician Used Beats to Build a Better GPS

How trying to tie sounds to place led to a breakthrough in geolocation.
David Hambling
Oct 10, 2014 3 min read
Circuit boards.

Tackling the Problems of Digital Waste With Digital Tech

The Baidu Recycle app aims to avert some of the worst effects of the trade in electronic waste.
Sam Geall
Oct 10, 2014 2 min read
A CGI render of the wooden skyscraper at street level.

The World’s Next Tallest Building–Made of Wood?

The tallest new wood building is the world is 10 stories tall–and the next ones could go even higher.
Mark Harris
Oct 7, 2014 2 min read

Pumping Breast Milk Sucks–But Someone Just Changed That

A hackathon for parents who want to push for wider change in maternal and family healthcare.
Georgina Voss
Oct 6, 2014 3 min read
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