Thursday, March 20, 2008

Tibetan protests escalate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7307382.stm

To be honest, I have trouble dealing with the fact that Tibet is still in this situation. I had a Free Tibet sticker on my English notebook in middle school.

Illinois highways as the way of the future? This blows.

"Roads and Highways Will Go Private, Thanks to the Iraq War"

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/03/roads-and-highw.html

Way more in depth treatment of the subject:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031603085_4.html?nav=rss_politics

The X-Prize has tackled spaceflight. How hard can fuel efficient cars be?

Scary/Hilarious quote from the article:
"US fuel economy averages out to 20.2 mpg, 9 percent less than it was 20 years ago. (The Model T Ford, Diamandis likes to point out, got 25 miles per gallon.)"

http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-01/ff_100mpg

Wednesday, March 19, 2008