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Humanoids09

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This four-day conference is all about pushing the robotic envelope, building humanoids that are more like their creators and in the process teaching us a thing or two about human movement and speech. But what we really want to know ...READ»

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RoboGames

BY Fast Company Calendar
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Thu May 21, 2009 at 11:28 AM

They play Connect Four. They mix martinis. They paint. And at this sixth annual event, robots go head-to-head in categories from navigation to remote-controlled flame throwing. In the past two years, the gathering has doubled to 70 ...READ»

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Waste Expo

BY Fast Company Calendar
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Wed May 20, 2009 at 5:29 PM

A hot topic at this meet-up of solid-waste execs will be the booming business of trash to cash. Some 55% of American waste still ends up in landfills, and operators in this $52 billion industry have long been required to collect ...READ»

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World Pork Expo

BY Fast Company Calendar
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Wed Jun 3, 2009 at 9:14 AM

Should we go to the hog races first or the PigCasso art show? Welcome to bacony bliss, a three-day celebration of porcine proportions that draws 40,000 consumers, producers, and vendors to Iowa, the top pork-producing state in ...READ»

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Infectious Disease Cruise Conference

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 92
Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 1:00 AM

One tip to avoid the spread of infectious diseases: Don't gather in confined spaces. Like, you know, a ship at sea. (We haven't forgotten all those news stories about the stomach-churning, disinfectant-resisting norovirus.) This ...READ»

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Health 2.0

BY Fast Company Calendar
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Tue Oct 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM

As the quest to improve America's health-care system continues, the tech crowd is ready to offer its own prescription: Apply the fundamentals of Web 2.0 (consumer-focused tools; crowd-sourced, minable data; robust community) to the ...READ»

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National Corvette Caravan

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 88
Thu Sep 3, 2009 at 8:30 AM

If you're one of America's 750,000 Corvette owners, start your engine: 25 caravans -- with cars and drivers from every state in the Lower 48 -- will mark the National Corvette Museum's 15th anniversary by converging on GM's Corvette ...READ»

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NeoCon World's Trade Fair

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 79
Thu May 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM

Does the mere thought of PowerPoint-glutted conferences send your fingernails inching toward your eyeballs? Then we suggest the pecha-kucha night at this designers' gathering. The brainchild of Tokyo architects Mark Dytham and ...READ»

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Contributors

BY Fast Company Staff
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Thu Oct 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Farhad Manjoo "I was recently confronted with a personal example of the true cost of free stuff," says Farhad Manjoo, our tech columnist and author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. "I moved to a new ...READ»

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International Women's Day

BY Fast Company Calendar
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Sun Mar 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM

In 1908, some 15,000 women Marched through the streets of New York for shorter work hours, better wages, and voting rights. One hundred and one years later, this global celebration of female achievements now runs more toward ...READ»

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Mike Duke Becomes CEO of Wal-Mart

BY Fast Company Calendar
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Sun Feb 1, 2009 at 9:00 AM

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Updates to Stories from Fast Company

BY Fast Company Staff
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Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 1:30 AM

Time Out Americans may not be working fewer hours, as David Roberts suggested in "All in a Day's Work " (May), but more of us are working fewer days. In July, Utah became the first state to implement a mandatory ...READ»

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Updates

BY Fast Company Staff
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Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 5:45 PM

Texan Trees"Carbon Boom" (July/August) addressed the idea of offsetting greenhouse- gas emissions by preserving forests, largely in tropical regions like Brazil and Indonesia. Now the so-called forest carbon trade has come ...READ»

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Introducing the Femme Den: Going Beyond "Shrink it and Pink it"

BY Linda Tischler
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Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 2:17 PM

If you have to moderate a panel discussion about sex, Las Vegas is probably the best place on the planet to do it. So last January, I splashed on a little Shalimar, hiked up my fishnets, and headed over to a back hall at the ...READ»

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Now September 2008

BY Fast Company Staff
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Thu Aug 7, 2008 at 7:30 PM

What's happening in September, from clean coal to the hottest new music.READ»

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Fast Company Recommended Events October 2009

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Thu Oct 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM

October MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 ...READ»

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Fast Company Recommended Events June 2009

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Mon Jun 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM

June MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ...READ»

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BY Ellen Gibson, Adam L. Penenberg, Kate Rockwood
Relevancy Score: 24
Mon Jun 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM

Nau goes under Nau (above), the year-old outdoor-apparel retailer profiled in our June 2007 issue, shut down in May, after it could not close its fourth round of financing. Ian Yolles, VP of marketing, dismisses conjecture that ...READ»