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What technology do you use to manage a family?

Nov 25, 2009 19:01

My sister-in-law has given birth to a baby boy. We're thrilled to have him.

After the birth of baby Ethan, I started observing how his parents and other parents use technology to manage having a newborn baby. My sis-in-law has created an Excel sheet to monitor his milking patterns and loops nursery rhymes on her iPhone (she's still on maternity leave).
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What if global warming's just a cycle?

Nov 20, 2009 13:43

More and more publications are reporting that temperatures on earth have stagnated or have even started cooling off.

What if the global warming idea which has instilled fear that we're all going to die unless we stop wasting resources turns out to be a cyclical process, and in turn, a global cooling has begun? Should this affect our attitudes and behavior toward our earthly resources?
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Bringing nature into submission for you

Nov 18, 2009 13:29

We've talked about having a Green Economy for the longest time. As consumers, we have pressured manufacturers to switch to using renewable energy, cutting down on plastic packaging, obliterating the use of chemicals, etc.

However, the Green Economy has turned out to be rather costly. As a consumer, you must have noticed that most eco-friendly products in the supermarket are more expensive than their non-eco counterparts?
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What technology should we innovate for Malaysia?

Nov 11, 2009 14:33

The MSC Malaysia International Advisory Panel is a group of individuals who advise the Malaysian Government on how to build a fertile environment for innovation to grow in the country's Information Communication Technologies (ICT) sector.

The current members of this panel includes distinguished Malaysians such as the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation, the Chairman of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDEC) which is the agency that oversees the growth programs, and the CEO of MDEC.
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Bizarre green methods

Nov 9, 2009 18:02

How far would you go to save water and electricity? A week ago, I posted on my Facebook Wall about these washable and reusable sanitary napkins. When I showed them to my maid, she was surprised that Malaysians would employ such things as these are what the people in her village use because they are too poor to buy disposable ones.
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