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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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In "Divided Highways", Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape....
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#1 On October 15, 1586, Queen Mary of Scots was on trial for treason. She had been accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in order to take the English crown for herself. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Principal Secretary, planned to prove that Mary was at the heart of the plot, and was therefore equally culpable and deserving of death.
#2 The plot to...
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Tiny Transit is safe, low speed, low cost, low stress, low emission, climate-conscious mobility for this generation and those to come.
Within Tiny Transit, Susan Engelking, founder of Tiny Transit Strategies, describes an innovative, proven solution: protected networks for small, low speed, low cost, low emission vehicles. For cities, this concept is a game changer. For the nation, this new transportation alternative is a step toward economic resilience,...
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#1 At the mouth of the harbor, El Morro, a massive brown escarpment, rose up out of the sea. The Central America was the biggest ship in the harbor. She was sleek and black, her decks scrubbed smooth with holystones, and her deckhouses glistened with the yellowed patina of old varnish.
#2 The final five days of the journey were spent sailing to New York. The weather...
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#1 The human factor is what saves the crew of Apollo 13. It is what saves the crew of Apollo 13 when all the glittering technology seems useless.
#2 I was excited to be at the Cape Canaveral launch site, as I had been assigned to NASA to help with the American space program. I was shocked to see that the base looked like any other military base.
#3 I had never driven...
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#1 The fourth R is research. Everyone can learn to use online information more efficiently and effectively, whether they're students, citizens, parents, or professionals. This book makes the case that learning how to be a better online researcher is not just a good idea but something that everyone should know how to do.
#2 Research is a skill that we all take for granted....
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#1 Flying was expensive in 1972, so most Americans took car trips instead. My parents were no exception. They always took car trips to visit my father's relatives in Indiana.
#2 I was 10 years old in 1967, and I was excited to visit Expo 67 in Montreal. My mother, however, was terrified of the bridge collapse and the island sinking, so we didn't go. I was ready...
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#1 The worst nuclear accident in American history began with a clog in the basement of a lonely hour. The plant's operators were unable to figure out what the hell was going on, and the taint of that chaos would linger for hours.
#2 The control room was extremely busy that day. The water level in the reactor's pulmonary loop, which cools the reactor, was dropping. The...
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#1 Chingford is the birthplace of sirloin steak, and it is a quiet and unassuming borough on the northeast edge of London. It votes Conservative, as the constituency of Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the Conservative Party. Jony Ive was born there.
#2 Mike Ive's influence went beyond the precocious child in his own household. He was a teacher, and he helped develop...
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#1 In the summer of 2015, I was a doctor at Hurley Medical Center, a teaching hospital on the campus of the University of Michigan. My wife, Reeva, and I had taken our two-year-old daughter, TL, there for annual checkups.
#2 As a doctor, I want to help people, and I want to help people help themselves. I believe in the power of education and information to make people...
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#1 Ionizing radiation, the emission or transmission of energy, comes in a variety of forms. The radiation produced by nuclear explosions and accidents carries enough energy to detach electrons from atoms and molecules.
#2 The statue of Prometheus, a Greek Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humankind, was erected in the city of Prypiat a few years before...
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#1 The ship will become an astonishing, remarkable thing: thousands of tons of thousands of types of cargo, floating on miles of water, traveling safely to the other side of the world. Kendal's job is to travel to Felixstowe, Bremerhaven, and Rotterdam.
#2 The people of Kendal live and work in the accommodation house, a cream superstructure placed toward the rear of...
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#1 The 2011 earthquake in Japan struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was designed to withstand a large earthquake, but not a 50-foot tsunami. The reactor was severely damaged, and many feared that the uranium inside would explode like an atomic bomb.
#2 A nuclear bomb is made when a nuclear reactor blows up. In a nuclear reactor, the uranium is typically...
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#1 Piracy has been around since the Bronze Age, when the Mediterranean was a hotbed for piratical activity. The word pirate comes from the ancient Greek word piero, which means to make an attempt.
#2 The geography of the sea, as well as political reasons, helped piracy take off in the ancient world. People did their best to thwart it, but it was hard to stop pirates...
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#1 On the night of the Titanic's maiden voyage, lookout Frederick Fleet saw an iceberg directly ahead. He banged the crow's-nest bell three times, warning of danger ahead, but the ship didn't turn.
#2 The passengers in their cabins felt the jar. Some felt it was like a heavy wave striking the ship, while others thought it was nothing at all.
#3 Some of the passengers...
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#1 The choice of where to live is often made based on the most beautiful place on earth. For me, that is Moab, Utah. I don't mean the town itself, but the country which surrounds it.
#2 I woke up before sunrise and looked out the window at a scene dim and vague with flowing mists. Outside, the ground was covered with snow. It was cold as a tomb, a jail, or a cave. I lay down on the...
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#1 The idea that changed the world was conceived by Jack Kilby at the height of summer, when everyone else was on vacation. It was an idea of cosmic dimensions, and it would eventually win Kilby the Nobel Prize in Physics.
#2 In the 1950s, Americans were excited about the future, and magazines were happy to feed that appetite. The major breakthroughs in biology, genetics,...
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#1 I am one of the few who have survived a plane crash from a great height. The crash shaped the rest of my life and led me to where I am today. It was my good fortune that I had spent a few years of my young life in the jungle.
#2 I fell in love with the jungle when I was young, and I have spent my life preserving it. The rain forest is not only full of wonders, but...
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