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POPSAfrica's sun to power Europe's homes? This project should also be opened up to public investment, instead of giving all the shares to corporate giants. People want a safe and meaningful way to invest their money directly, rather than depending on the "judgement" of bankers and stock brokers.
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POPSUnder 30 And Rockin' Are you passionate about something? Here are six people under 30 years old pursuing their passions.
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POPSGirls Make History At Science Contest More: Dr. Hopkins helped start a national discussion about girls and science two years ago when she walked out of a talk by Harvard University’s president, Lawrence H. Summers, after he suggested that innate differences between men and women might be one reason that fewer women than men succeed in math and science careers. Dr. Summers apologized during the ensuing furor; he announced his resignation as Harvard’s president 13 months later James Whaley, president of the Siemens Foundation, which oversees the competition for Siemens AG, a global electronics and engineering company, said the competition results send a great message to young women Alicia Darnell, 17, a senior at Pelham Memorial High School in Pelham, N.Y., won second place and a $50,000 scholarship in the individual category for research that identified genetic defects that could play a role in the development of Lou Gehrig’s disease Pretty good for 16 and 17 year olds don't ya think?
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POPSDistributed Self Ahhh good stuff. Thanks to George Siemens who referenced this blog on his. If we are distributing self, and the components of our self are locally similar to components of other selves, can we, or someone else, aggregate new selves from the parts? :-)
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POPSSiemens Bribes Said To Top 1 Billion Euros A billion euros?? For those keeping score at home, that'd be more than $1.3 billion in bribes that Siemens is alleged to have paid to secure lucrative contracts. Der Spiegel says it has documents showing that Siemens' power plant division had an account in Lichtenstein through "hundreds of millions of euros were transferred." - Louis Hau