The £50,000 house you can download from the internet

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The £50,000 house you can download from the internet

The Independent
Sep 12 2014
A modern take on traditional prefab housing may be the answer to Britain's homes crisis, with the launch of a two-bedroom property that anyone can put together in a matter of days. The first prototype of the WikiHouse 4.0 – which can be built for less......read more...

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Bike sharing: Forget helmets

It's a conundrum: We can promote public health through bike sharing programs, but must we compromise safety to do so? 

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Bike sharing: Forget helmets

The Vancouver Sun
Aug 21 2014
Second of two parts Go to New York City and you'll see the inconceivable: Thousands of people riding bikes in the thickest of traffic, without helmets. In the Land Of The Free, they have the right to bare heads. But then, you can see the same thing......read more...

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Tech Care Takes Off

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TECH CARE TAKES OFF
By Brandon Bailey bbailey@mercurynews.com
San Jose Mercury News
Aug 14 2014

It's no coincidence that archrivals Apple and Google launched competing software initiatives this summer for wearable gadgets that track fitness and health. Health technology is hot in the Bay Area, where some of the biggest tech companies and a swarm...
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Big-Data Scientists Are in Big Demand

This could be Big. 

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Big-Data Scientists Are in Big Demand
BY ELIZABETH DWOSKIN
The Wall Street Journal Europe
Aug 11 2014

For his Ph. D. in astrophysics, Chris Farrell spent five years mining data from a giant particle accelerator. Now, he spends his days analyzing ratings for Yelp Inc.'s online business-review site. Mr. Farrell, 28 years old, is a data scientist, a job...
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Renewable Energy to End Coal Era

RENEWABLE ENERGY TO END COAL ERA

Weekend Daily Planet, 28 February 2013

The perception that fossil fuels are cheap, and renewables expensive, is now out of date.The truth is that wind power is rapidly becoming cheaper than coal and gas - even in those countries of the world’s most abundant fossil fuel resources.Clean energy is a game changer, which promises to turn the economics of power systems on its head.... [article]

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The machines will take our jobs if we don’t get smart

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The machines will take our jobs if we don't get smart

Business Week
Jul 31 2014

WHAT to do? Should I write this week about financial imbalances in the euro zone, or the threat to jobs from computerisation? One might be of more interest to me, but the other to almost everyone else. Then it dawned that the two were connected in a...
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The public sector assumes most of the cost of research

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The public sector assumes most of the cost of research
RACHEL PARKER DAVID WISEMAN Rachel Parker is dean of research development from Queensland University of Technology and David Wiseman is team leader of the Research Support Office at QUT Business School.
The Australian
Jul 30 2014

AN important potential advantage of any research impact assessment exercise would be to better articulate the incredible and substantial contribution of public research to economic and social advancement and to correct the balance of public discourse...
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We’re heading into a jobless future

What can we do that a machine couldn't? 

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We're heading into a jobless future
By VivekWadhwa
The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Jul 24 2014

In an op-ed in TheWall Street Journal, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate I'd had with futurist Ray Kurzweil in 2012 about the jobless future. He echoed the words of Peter Diamandis, who says that we aremoving froma history of...
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Linear programming, applied math, axioms

How applied maths helps money grow on trees (The Irish Times, Oct 3 2013, Page12)

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How applied maths helps money grow on trees

The Irish Times
Oct 3 2013
ABerkeley graduate student, George Dantzig, was late for class. He scribbled down two problems from the blackboard and handed in solutions a few days later. But the problems on the board were not homework assignments; they were two famous unsolved......read more...

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