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"Silent World," a photography project by Parisian artists Lucie & Simon, takes the most crowded parts of New York City, Paris, and Beijing, and alters them in a basic (but technically incredible difficult) way. http://www.popsci.com/

Popular Science | New Technology, Science News, The Future Now

Images via Yanko Design Rechargeable batteries are a solution for keeping batteries out of the landfill, but you still have to have the right size for your device, which means buying more batteries.

Shape-Shifting Battery Smooshes To Fit Sizes AA-D : TreeHugger

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/shape-shifting-battery-smooshes-to-fit-sizes-aa-d.html

TechCrunch

SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) http://techcrunch.com/

Badass of the Week: Yang Youde

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/youde.html Yang Youde is a 56 year-old farmer living outside Wuhan city in China's Hubei province who never really wanted anything more than to live in peace and not get reamed in the asshole when he finally got around to selling his small, quiet farm.

How to Save Cleveland - Reason Magazine

http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/24/how-to-save-cleveland You want a quick indicator of urban decline in any city you visit?
"How did a suicidal robot end up here?" It had taken over 20 years of painstaking preparation and research to plan his suicide.

COSMOS magazine | The science of everything

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/
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Huffington Post

http://thenextweb.com/eu/2010/07/01/today-finland-officially-becomes-first-nation-to-make-broadband-a-legal-right/

Today Finland officially becomes first nation to make broadband

Starting today (July 1), every Finnish citizen now has a guaranteed legal right to a least a 1Mbps broadband connection, putting it on the same footing as other legal rights in the country such as healthcare and education.
http://www.salon.com/2010/06/28/the_war_against_the_economics_bloggers/ In “The Accordion Family,” Katherine Newman, a sociologist and dean of the school of arts and sciences at Johns Hopkins University, looks at the dynamics of the boomerang generation – a phenomenon she has dubbed the “accordion family.”

Economist to bloggers: Shut up, fools - How the World Works - Sa