Topic: Hamburg

First Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Plane Takes to the Skies

The world's first plane powered solely by hydrogen fuel cells took off on its maiden flight Tuesday from Hamburg Airport in Germany. The Antares DLR-H2's 10-minute flight showed off the plane's 105-mph-speed capabilities and quiet ...READ»

Conferences

Third Aircraft Interior Innovations 2007 November 6-8 Hamburg, Germany At the Aircraft Interiors gathering, eggheads who know ergonomics and marketers who know mood lighting share prescriptions for making air ...READ»

Milan Preview: 'Love Design' Makes Sex Toys Vibrate

At design's premier event, settees make way for sex toys by signature designers.READ»

The Business of Burgers Makes a Juicy Read

Given the ubiquity of the all-beef patty and the global spread of the golden arches, one can be forgiven for struggling to imagine America before the burger. In The Hamburger, out April 22, New York magazine food writer Josh Ozersky ...READ»

Pollution All Over the Map

Sensaris aggregates info about smoggy hot spots.READ»

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Abraham Lincoln and the 10,000-Hour Rule

Thousands of hours of practice are required in order to become famous in any given field. This article applies this general principle to the career of Abraham Lincoln. READ»

Tim Janik

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How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.

For years, compact fluorescent bulbs have promised dramatic energy savings--yet they remain a mere curiosity. That's about to change.READ»

Live Earth LiveBlog

11:20 AM The Live Earth concert has now been going for more than 10 hours now, if you're measuring everything by one time zone. Sydney started at around 9 p.m. on the East Coast of the U.S. It was preceded by Al Gore giving a little ...READ»

These Boots Were Made for Selling

The hottest site for haute couture? It's eBay. If you're Manolo Blahnik, is that a good thing?READ»

What's Selling in America: part 1 of 5

"First You Get High on It, Then You Buy It." Amoeba Music Marches to Its Own Beat Memo to: The Big Bosses at Virgin Megastores Re: Your Next Big Source of Competition These days, it's hard for monstrously big music retailers to ...READ»

Designer Jeff Fisher is having an "Identity Crisis!"

Identity Crisis: 50 Redesigns That Transformed Stale Identities Into Successful Brands, the new book from Jeff Fisher, the Engineer of Creative Identity for the Portland-based design firm Jeff Fisher LogoMotives, has been released by ...READ»

Terrorism, Trauma, and the Search for Redemption

Silke Maier-Witt, a trauma psychologist in Kosovo, is seeking to heal the wounds that terrorism has inflicted on women from both sides. She's also seeking redemption for her father's dark past in Nazi Germany and her own as a revolutionary gang member.READ»

Good Manners are More than Marketing or Strategy...

... but the Basis for the Credibility of a Company and Thus for its Long-Term Success.READ»

Business Fights Back: eBay Learns to Trust Again

The world's most successful Internet company is based on two pillars of growth: the global spread of Internet-style capitalism and confidence in the basic goodness of the people who do business on the site. Both ideas came under attack on September 11.READ»

What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

Grassroots Leadership - Royal Dutch/Shell

Steve Miller of Royal Dutch/Shell offers a powerful model of what leadership means -- a recognition that commitment and creativity come from all parts and all levels of an organization.READ»