So as readers of this site may or may not know -- probably not -- I've spent the past couple of years writing for Yahoo! News, the last year of which I spent a considerable amount of time writing about last summer's BP oil disaster and its ongoing fallout.

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MIT's Sensable City Lab has built a new solar-powered, autonomous floating robot called a Seaswarm.

The '70s were a strange and disturbing time in human history, rife with bad clothing decisions, bad music decisions, and sad attempts to make money off of board games.