I dig this fun special effects video "documenting" San Francisco Fleet Week if the fleet were Imperial craft from Star Wars. Seen above, a Lambda-class shuttle soars past the Golden Gate Bridge.
A 7,500-Square-Foot Ad for Chanel, With an Artistic Mission--A rectangular patch of sand in Central Park may be the last place you'd expect to find a gleaming "Star Trek"-style spacecraft. But an art pavilion that resembles just that will make a temporary landing there this fall.
After a closer examination of the Antikythera Mechanism, a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, forerunner of the modern Olympic Games.
Today was an amazing day out at Mojave Spaceport.
Burt Rutan, Sir Richard Branson, and a bevy of space celebs (including Dr. Buzz Aldrin) gathered for the launch of Virgin Galactic's twin-hulled mothership, "Eve," named after Sir Richard's own mom -- who formally christened WhiteKnightTwo with the pop of a champagne bottle. Branson explained that the spaceliner was also named "Eve" because she was conceived as an historic first for humankind.
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A Bangladeshi ex-pat documentary maker is part of a team developing a biopic about the micro-banking Nobel prize winner
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'Flying Squad' Beats Back Herds That Kill People And Devastate Plantations
TESSO NILO, Indonesia -- If you're trying to keep the peace between man and beast, it helps to have the elephant "Flying Squad" on your side. (Video 
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A peculiar fact about business schools (at least in the USA) is that project management is not part of the regular MBA curriculum. Why is this peculiar? Only because a huge percentage of the work managers do is organized into projects, the success or failure of strategies often rests on the quality of execution of projects, and many of the principles and techniques of good project management are not immediately obvious.
Hat tip: Dynamist Blog
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