February 28, 2013
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Looking at photos from the November spill, so eerily similar to the photos from BP’s April 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s clear we are still looking for energy in risky places, and largely unprepared to deal with the consequences of failure. One year after the BP spill (which workers soaked up, in large part, with straw bales), the X Prize Foundation announced winners of a million-dollar incentive to develop new tools to clean up oil spills: And many others are looking at this problem too, including one of TED’s Senior Fellows, Cesar Harada. Harada is an inventor — of a staggering number of kinds of things. One of them is the Open_Sailing project, a group of inventors and scientists building open-source hardware and software to explore and study the ocean.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/naomi-klein-risk_n_1136389.html?utm_hp_ref=tedtalks2011
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April 13, 2012
Mohenjo
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Finnish scientists have drawn on the structure of the insect’s foot to exploit its ability to let the creature skim across a pond’s surface.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17510782
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