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Posted by Samina Cabral
Samina Cabral
Samina Cabral is a native Southern Californian who now resides on the shores of
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on Tuesday, 24 April 2012
in Clean Factoids
You are undoubtedly reading this on a computer; either a desktop or a laptop. If not one of those 
machines, a smaller device with a screen: a smartphone or a tablet. Whatever your chosen method of browsing the Internet, it has a screen, a battery, and if you have a portable device a charger that plugs into a wall outlet.
What is your standard search engine? It has to be Google because they are known for their interactive and eye-catching logo changes on holidays and notable days like an artist’s birthday or like today’s- a celebration of the zipper!. But what if you found a more efficient search engine and it had nothing to do with how quickly results were aggregated? This search engine was sure to suck less power because it used a black background rather than a white background. Would you switch?
Posted by Samina Cabral
Samina Cabral
Samina Cabral is a native Southern Californian who now resides on the shores of
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on Saturday, 18 February 2012
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LivingHomes is considered the premier builder of pre-frabricated (pre-fab) sustainable homes. Founded in 2006 the company features homes designed by Ray Kappe and architectural firm Kieran Timberlake. LivingHomes may be pre-fab but can also be customized and are available nationally.
This weekend their new C6 model will open for tours in Long Beach at The Long Beach Performing Arts Center and in Palm Springs as part of Modernism Week.
The Pacific Ocean covers a third of the Earth’s surface. As the world’s largest ocean it must hold deep secrets. Secrets that might help us understand not only the ocean and its inhabitants but what role it plays in the environment. Since the year 1513 when the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa first saw the Eastern shore of what he called Mar del Sur, what we now call the Pacific thanks to Ferdinand Magellan, conquistadors and explorers have been navigating the cold waters in search of new worlds and glory.
Manned watercraft can only travel so far before needing to stop to refuel or to give the crew a break. Liquid Robotics Inc. has a little machine they call a Wave Glider, an unmanned vehicle pushed along by the waves and aided by the sun to collect scientific data. If all goes as planned Liquid Robotics will go down in history just like Balboa and Magellan.
