month : 01/2012 45 results

Kobayashi Raises $19,000 With Linkin Park

The joint project between Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi and the rock band Linkin Park has been ...

Made in China: 5,500 Toy Soldiers Make A Portrait

Produced using more than 5500 toy soldiers. The portrait is of a Chinese soldier boy taken by ...

Wired.com: Three-Part Series Examining the History of Anonymous

Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz (November 8, 2011)

Last week the net and the media were ablaze with the news that Anonymous might be taking on the Zeta drug cartel in Mexico, a story that has morphed into a wider drug corruption story, and led to one American law enforcement official in North Carolina being named as a gang conspirator. ...

German Energy Revolution: Feldheim, German Village, Powered By Renewable Energy

This tiny village of 37 gray homes and farm buildings clustered along the main road in a wind-swept corner of rural eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution. Yet environmentalists, experts and politicians from El Salvador to Japan to South Africa have flocked here in the past year to learn how Feldheim, a village of just 145 people, is already putting into practice Germany's vision of a future powered entirely by renewable energy. ...

What Next for the African Union in 2012?

As we come ever closer to 2012, I thought I would examine Africa's recent struggles on its path to unity and a more prosperous region. Certainly, with 2011's cataclysmic changes taking place in North Africa, most of the African Union's attention has been heavily turned towards the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Nevertheless, the organisation has not been without its own crises to manage in the sub-Saharan region. ...