Featured on the Colbert Report, this project might be the future of the way we farm in America. Through farm towers that can be located in even the small confined land of our nations largest cities. Are these farm sky scrapers the answer to world hunger? Or just another crazy idea that will never happen? Either way it’s pretty cool to think about.

It took humans 10,000 years to learn how to grow most of the crops we now take for granted. Along the way, we despoiled most of the land we worked, often turning verdant, natural ecozones into semi-arid deserts. Within that same time frame, we…

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Did you participate in the Twit-Out yesterday? Do you even know what that is? To get you up to speed, a handful of Twitter users, fed up with the regular outages of their favorite service, decided to band together to show Twitter some tough love by boycotting the service for a day.

Last December, we wrote about how two brothers used YouTube to promote various charities. The brothers started a project called "Nerdfighters Power Project for Awesome," which entailed a series of videos, each featuring a certain…

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Nanosolar just can't stop making news! After completing it's $100M manufacturing plant, and starting up the manufacture of nearly 500 megawatts of solar generating capacity per year, NanoSolar is taking yet more investment.

Per square foot of sail, it's 3x more effective than traditional sails. It does not require extensive training to deal with, and there's no need for maintenance during travel. The sail literally unfolds and folds itself at the touch of a…

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