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Has the Oracle of Omaha seen the future? If so, it seems to include more trains, because Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's investment vehicle, decided to buy the remaining 77.4% of...
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This is a really interesting investment play from Buffett. California's High-Speed Rail plans already call for using a lot of the existing BNSF right-of way. If...
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Santiago Calatrava's stunning Liège-Guillemins TGV station opened last month in Belgium, a glowing hump of glass and steel that's built to serve 36,000 passengers a day. The...
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This station is so beautiful!
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A man has made friends with some lions in South Africa. Watch as he gets himself into the middle of a "lion sandwich" without becoming dinner.
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"ASHBURN, Va. — Desiree Jennings is trapped in her body. Intellectually she’s all there, but her muscles are fighting each other. She’s been diagnosed with dystonia, an...
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What I want to add to this discussion is that Guillain-Barre is VERY real, poorly understood, and not related to the Flu vaccine specifically - but to possibly any...
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Anyone can rap about Los Angeles or New York. It takes a true urban poet to
make one of America's second or third tier cities sound dope. This Time Life
collection brings together all the...
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This is awesome... can't wait for vol's 2, 3 and 4. ;)
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"San Francisco's Bay Bridge is being redone; a large portion of the bridge will remain unused, but in good shape. What can city planners do with this unique, unused space?
Local San...
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Neat idea for architects and sci-fi authors to play with, but a horrible idea if you think of the engineering and the location.
The Bay Bridge is NOT "in good...
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A far-from-definitive list of the 20 most annoying science and technology errors in films, from slow-moving lasers to extraterrestrials who use Windows Vista.
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Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband access to every person living in Finland (5.5 million people, give or take).
This is reportedly a first...
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Thirty years ago this month the Sugar Hill Gang, out of the Bronx hit it big with what is readily excepted has the first chart topping hip hop song "Rapper's Delight". Before...
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Chris Walla And J. Robbins Create 'Mercury'
October 12, 2009 - Not everyone can write and record a song in two days, but that's the Project Song challenge faced by Chris Walla...
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That's really cool! It reminded me of the RPM Challenge - an open "contest" among home-recording enthusiasts to produce an album's worth of original...
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