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Vint Cerf of Google on the Future of the Internet

Vice president of engineering and chief evangelist at Google on the connected world in 2050. Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/vinton-cerf-on-where-the-internet-will-take-us-1128826/

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Jay Parkinson on Creating Health Through Happiness

The co-founder of Hello Health says the health care industry has a “huge opportunity” to change the way it communicates with patients

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Clay Shirky on Openness in an Online World

The NYU interactive telecommunications professor looks for a balance between open and closed systems, but believes technological threats could close everything down

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Charles Ebinger on Real-Time Energy Pricing

The Director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution says we will be in good shape on the energy front by 2050, though real problems may come in …

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Viktor Mayer-Schnberger on Engagement Through Technology

The Director of the Information & Innovation Policy Research Center, National University of Singapore hopes technology will make us more empowered, motivated and active

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The History of Color Photography

While Levi Hill supposedly invented color photography in the 1850s, it was the Lumiere brothers who devised the first commercially viable photographic process.

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The Art of Sausage Making

Stanley Feder, founder of Simply Sausage, walks us through what it takes to make truly outstanding links.

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A Rare Look at Tucker Cars

Collector David Cammack owns three of the 43 remaining cars in existence designed by Preston Tucker, which he puts on display in a secluded museum in Virginia. Editor’s Note: We’re …

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Ambushed by a Prehistoric Spider

Using a CT scanner, scientists have created a 3-D model of Cryptomartus hindi

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New Window on the Universe

Take an animated tour of the future Giant Magellan Telescope

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The Father of Camouflage

Artist Abbot Thayer illustrated the prevalence of camouflage in the animal world and advocated using it as a military tactic

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Deploying the Wave Energy Buoy

See a prototype of a wave energy buoy bob up and down on the waters surface as researchers from Oregon State University study its efficacy

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Albert Einstein Lives On

Through the science of robotics, researchers in California have created a lifelike bust of Albert Einstein to teach others, and themselves, about the breakthroughs made with robots

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A Final Takeoff

Watch one of Amelia Earhart’s final takeoffs, July 2, 1937

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A Tomato Trail

From soil to soup (Smithsonian.com). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/passion-for-tomatoes.html

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The Lightest Bowling Pin

For decades, in a tradition imported from Belgium, bowlers in Michigan have rolled their balls at feathers, not pins (Edited and produced by: Roberta Cruger)

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