In this issue: Urban farming, finding contractors, and privacy.
---Energy---
Popular Mechanics tells you how to make four alternative
fuels at home: ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hydrogen.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349336
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---Food---
Urban farming is an excuse to geek out with some awesome
tech. Wired says innovations from NASA and garage tinkerers
have made food-growing radically more efficient and compact
than the victory gardens of yore.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=350031
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Fast Company describes how seven food industry execs are
making the food supply cleaner, greener, and healthier.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349639
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---Home---
This Old House provides tips for using online resources to
get the best contractors for your projects.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349567
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---Internet---
The Web is an unparalleled tool for generating, finding, and
sharing sound information. Wired says it's moronic is to
assume that it hurts us more than it helps.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=350052
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Organize large document sets:
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---Olympics---
Sports fans and average humans were left dumbfounded last
week as Michael Phelps and his USA Swimming teammates
shattered records on a daily basis. Popular Mechanics looks
for an explanation.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349932
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We love fireworks, but from now on, will we have to see them
in person to believe them? Popular Mechanics reports that a
Chinese newspaper broke the story that some of the fireworks
footage from the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was
prepared digitally in advance of the broadcast.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349329
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---Physics---
IEEE Spectrum explains how the Large Hadron Collider will
stop a proton beam that can melt a half ton of copper.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349354
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---Privacy---
Scientific American says our jittery state since 9/11,
coupled with the Internet revolution, is shifting the
boundaries between public interest and "the right to be let
alone."
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349854
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Many issues posing as questions of privacy can turn out to
be matters of security, health policy, insurance or
self-presentation. Scientific American claims it is useful
to clarify those issues before focusing on privacy itself.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349856
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---Recycling---
Recycling should be the easy way to get people involved in
helping the environment, but Fast Company says the
businesses behind it are blowing it.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349576
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---Misc---
AskMen explains how to change your name.
http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=349455
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