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Greenland's Bedrock Could Predict Our Climate Future

There is no shortage of prognostications about what climate change will do to our planet. In reality, there are few ways to tell for sure; human beings have never been around for this kind of world-shifting event before. But an ...READ»

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BP Gives Up Arctic Drilling Dreams

But the Gulf-scarred company isn't the only oil giant with designs on drilling at the top of the world.READ»

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8 of the Most Toxic Energy Projects on the Planet

BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico served as a wake-up call for many of us who never before paid attention to the destructive energy projects happening all around the world. But while Deepwater Horizon may have attracted the lion's share of media attention this past Spring and Summer, there are a number of other toxic projects still going on. We look at some of the worst.READ»

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iFive: Goggles Coming to iPhone, Google Ads Can't Fund Magazines, Cairn Energy, Smelling Robot, Russian Criminal Life

While you were sleeping, innovation was going retrofuturistic with posters like this--and these.1. Dave Petrou, an engineer on the Google Goggles mobile image search project, revealed that a Goggles app for iPhone is in the works. He ...READ»

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Where Art Thou?

The four kinds of places that make up today's creative world.READ»

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It's Not a Job, It's an Adventure!

Meet a new kind of Web geek. Randy Lagman, of Lands' End, is a virtual adventurer who has traded servers for snowshoes and hard drives for handguns. "The folks we work with are a different breed."READ»

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Is the Times Travel Section Tone Deaf?

The "Travel Winter 2008" issue of the New York Times Style Magazine features imagery of our rapidly melting polar caps. The photospread of the grand scenery is juxtaposed with luxury items such as $6845 black and white pelt of a mammal formerly known as endangered or a $3195 Chanel bag.READ»

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Hotbed

A trip to the steaming, bubbling badlands of Iceland proves one thing: There is hope for hydrogen.READ»

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Innovation as Resource and China's New Magnetism

China is set to cut off access to rare-earth elements--and this might be a very good thing.READ»

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Corporate Storytelling

Every civilization uses or has used story telling as a way to communicate social values, skills, and to change or reinforce behaviors. While stories are often the basis of interaction they are also the building blocks of knowledge and the foundation of memory and learning. They connect us to our humanity and link our past, present and future by teaching us to anticipate the possible consequences of our actions. Stories can help us define what is authentic about something or someone. The stories we tell and hear about our companies comprise our corporate cultures.READ»

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Resources: The Revolution Begins

Businesses large and small are finally seeing the green light. It isn't just conscience--or all those nice young people in Guatemalan sweaters--that's doing the trick. It's the sight of all that money.READ»

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How to Get the Job of Your Dreams

It's a feat few people ever accomplish. Here are some suggestions from those who have -- a designer, a professional video gamer, a stand-up comedian, a musical producer/performer, and an adventure columnist. READ»

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The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»