Practical Action - technology challenging poverty
Practical Action - formerly ITDG - works with poor people to demonstrate practical answers to poverty

Choosing An IT Career Path
When you’re picking the type of IT career path you want, you have to consider your options as to what is available.  Information Technology has around three basic career categories.  The education you’ll need, as well as the skill set you shoul

How Mr. Q Manufactured Emotion | Dustin Curtis
A too brief but fascinating article/interview with the 80year old Disney veteran who worked on the ambient music at Disney World. It's another great example of how Disney used technology to create something that seems entirely natural

Astronomy Question of the Week: How far into outer space have space probes penetrated?
Outer space, a place of enormous distances: for more than 30 years, unmanned spacecraft have journeyed to learn more about the depths of space, its planets and the nature of interplanetary space. Now, billions of kilometres from Earth, space probes are...

GlobalSpec – Engineering Search & Industrial Supplier Catalogs
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