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BBC - Future - Technology - Tethr: Getting online in a crisis

Latest BBC column, with HTs to @huslage and @whiteafrican. #techthatmatters

Scientists Look for Consequences of Shifting Seasons | PRI's The World

From the April 6, 2012 show…

BBC - Future - Technology - Turning dumbphones to smartphones

Latest column for BBC Future…

‘Netflix’ battery service aims to power up Africa. A start-up called EGG-energy wants to bring cheap electricity to the 580 million people across sub-Saharan Africa with no access to the grid…

‘Netflix’ battery service aims to power up Africa. A start-up called EGG-energy wants to bring cheap electricity to the 580 million people across sub-Saharan Africa with no access to the grid…

Turning Footsteps into Electricity

Turning Footsteps into Electricity

BBC - Future - Technology - Lantern shines light on disasters

My new column for the BBC Future website.

“Patience.” British Museum, February 2012.

“Patience.” British Museum, February 2012.

Spider-web ceiling. British Museum. Feb., 2012.

Spider-web ceiling. British Museum. Feb., 2012.

A Belgian court has ruled that Tintin in the Congo is not ‘racist.’

A Belgian court has ruled that Tintin in the Congo is not ‘racist.’

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Carpooling…the German way. Say it with me: “Mitfahrgelegenheit.”