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  • Voice Choices

    September 7, 2011

    D-I-WHY NOT?

    Homemade robots smarter than we are

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Ray Kelly: NYPD Will Eye New Midtown Traffic Cameras

    ​Privacy? That's so 20th Century. "We certainly monitor the traffic cameras," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told me today, when I asked him about the 32 video cameras and E-ZPass readers placed throughout Midtown as part of the real-time traffic system Mayor Bloomberg unveiled yesterday, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    City Will Use Your Toilet Water to Turn Seaweed Into Biofuel

    ​The city's Department of Environmental Protection announced a new pilot program today that officials say will use cutting-edge technology to convert algae at a Queens waste-water treatment plant into biofuel for cars. How environmental! From our toilets to your cars.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Mattel Unveils New Barbies With Jobs Perfect for Aspiring '90s-Era Career Gals

    ​Keeping up with the times (albeit with something of a decade-long lag), Mattel has introduced new Barbies with totally rockin' contemporary jobs, including Barbie as slutty Hollywood Access reporter (a/k/a, a pink-besuited News Anchor with a "flair for journalism" and freshly flat-ironed hair ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Columbia's Nuclear Reactor, the Triga Mark II

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 49 Columbia May Explode Even If Reactor Won't by Jonathan Black Peering off the glass bridge into the tank, you can see the graphic control rods plunging into the water. The water is distilled, slightl ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 5, 2010

    Nick Jonas & the Administration

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 49 Columbia May Explode Even If Reactor Won't by Jonathan Black Peering off the glass bridge into the tank, you can see the graphic control rods plunging into the water. The water is distilled, slightl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Ralph Nader: Unsafe at any Speed

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 23, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 10 The Shmoo Lives By Daniel List Back in May of 1964 Fact magazine devoted eight pages to a feature entitled "S.O.B. Detroit," dealing with findings to the effect that American cars are death traps. N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Willets Point's Septic Tank Days May Be Coming to a Close

    The septic tank days of Willets Point -- that ramshackle industrial triangle near Citi Field that awaits a Bloomberg-style makeover -- may be coming to an end. At least that's what the city's Economic Development Corporation announced last Thursday, when the agency said it would put $100 million d ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 4, 2009

    PLASTIC POLYGAMY

    A look at one man's many "wives"

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    MIND THE GAP

    The Bridge Project joins talents from the U.S. and UK

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2008

    What's For Dinner?

    The Bridge Project joins talents from the U.S. and UK

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2008

    U.S. Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa

    The Bridge Project joins talents from the U.S. and UK

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2008

    U.S. Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa

    The Bridge Project joins talents from the U.S. and UK

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    New Orleans v. Iraq

    The Bridge Project joins talents from the U.S. and UK

  • Film

    August 8, 2006

    Spike Lee's Reality TV

    When the Levees Broke brings Katrina's devastation into clear and timely focus

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Make Levees, Not War

    Serious hurricane protection could take 30 years to build

  • News

    September 6, 2005

    Crude Manipulation

    In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2005

    Morning Report 9/3/05
    Rotten to the Corps

    In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2005

    Morning Report 9/1/05
    We Leave New Orleans Before We Leave Baghdad

    In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

  • News

    August 30, 2005

    The Battle of New Orleans

    Nature 1, Man 0 in the fight to save the Crescent City

  • News

    August 16, 2005

    Temperatures Rise

    Power, water, planning—and the lack thereof—in southern Iraq

  • News

    May 27, 2003

    It's Nucular

    Republicans Plan a Hydrogen Economy—at Your Expense

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    Bad Policy, Big Bucks

    How Pataki's Disastrous Energy Plan Fattened His Friends and Campaign Coffers

  • News

    April 30, 2002

    Nation

    How Pataki's Disastrous Energy Plan Fattened His Friends and Campaign Coffers

  • News

    April 9, 2002

    Forget the Books

    Secrets of Book Reviewing Revealed

  • News

    April 2, 2002

    Everyone's a Critic

    Foodies Add Spice to ASME Awards

  • News

    March 5, 2002

    'Science' Magazine: Researchers Claim Tabletop Fusion Success

    Raises Promise of Clean, Limitless Energy From Bubbles

  • News

    January 29, 2002

    Prevarication Becomes Electric

    New Awareness of EMF Health Risks Fuels Opposition to Chelsea Substation

  • News

    December 18, 2001

    Unsafe at Any Price

    If Terrorists Take Down Nuclear Plants, You Pay—By the Hundreds of Billions

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    Cleaning Up at Ground Zero

    A Billion-Dollar Award Looms for GOP Ally

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    The Next Attack?

    A Billion-Dollar Award Looms for GOP Ally

  • News

    May 8, 2001

    ‘Mother Jones,’ Meet Henry Luce

    Public Interest Journalism Is Born Again

  • News

    March 7, 2000

    Shock Corridor

    How a Long-Dormant Law Could Spark a Hudson Valley Power Plant Boom

  • News

    December 21, 1999

    Quantum Leap

    Dr. Randell Mills says he can change the face of physics. The Scientfic Establishment thinks he's nuts.

  • News

    November 30, 1999

    Nation

    Dr. Randell Mills says he can change the face of physics. The Scientfic Establishment thinks he's nuts.

  • Long Island Voice

    August 17, 1999

    When Words Collide

    Dr. Randell Mills says he can change the face of physics. The Scientfic Establishment thinks he's nuts.

  • News

    August 3, 1999

    Brain Drain

    Morphing student techies into a modern-day breakfast club 

  • News

    March 23, 1999

    Watershed Waffle

    Rudy Takes a Dive on City Wetlands for Upstate GOP

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