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Prague marks 120 years of the electric tramTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:50AMIt was exactly 120 years ago this week that Praguers got their first ride in an electric tram. Today they are a staple of the city’s hilly streets and state-of-the-art wagons have long been one of the country’s best products. To mark the occasion and remind the city what its first trams were like, the National Technical Museum has opened up its garage and sent a fleet of historic trams back out ...

Gates Foundation Launches Effort to Reinvent the ToiletTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:08AMNew Strategy Promotes Adoption of Safe, Affordable Sanitation in the Developing World KIGALI, Rwanda, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the launch of a strategy to help bring safe, clean, sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world. In a keynote address at the 2011 AfricaSan Conference in Kigali, Sylvia Mathews ...

Documentary to focus on LED inventorTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:10AMCHAMPAIGN — The inventor of the omnipresent LED is excited about a newer invention that could take decades to fully exploit. The Big Ten Network is about to show a documentary about University of Illinois Professor Nick Holonyak Jr. and his invention of the light emitting diode a half-century ago. read more

Thoreau's Idea Hunt, and OursTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:00AMBy Andy Boynton, with William Bole

Invention Machine Advances Collaborative Innovation With Latest Software ReleaseTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:27AMNew Goldfire Functionality Automates Collection and Distribution of Relevant Semantic Research to Accelerate Product Development and New Product Introduction

New Thriller Explores Questions of Utopia, StricturesTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:35AMReaders will explore the meaning of society and lawlessness in new book (PRWeb July 19, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8649207.htm

Nostalgic dose of anime and manga in ManilaMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:23AMAt the opening of the exhibit “Japan: Kingdom of Characters" at The Metropolitan Museum recently, there was a slight commotion and loud shrieks when a male guest garbed in an elaborate costume with golden arabesque patterns complete with a helmet and sleeves fit for a fierce warrior lord descended on the crowd.

Through The Static, The Voice Of HistorySunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:09PMScientists have recovered the oldest known commercial recording — an anonymous young woman reciting a nursery rhyme. The 1888 cylinder record was a prototype for a talking doll designed by Thomas Edison.

Ballarat invention protects valuables onlineSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 9:45AMTWO Ballarat men have invented and launched a new website which promises to help return stolen goods to their owners and make it easier to claim on insurance.