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Popular Mechanics — The capable Icon makes short work of Imogene Pass. The trusty companion took us on a four-day adventure in Colorado's Rockies. If you've got five days to spend in a single state, and you want to experience the best roads, the best views and the .. ...More…
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CONTINUED: High-Speed Rail, Roads and Bridges >>>
Popular Mechanics — In addition to roads and bridges, initiatives such as smart electric grids and high-speed rail received funding-along with attention from politicians and pundits quick to seize on a new set of buzzwords. There's just one problem: While the law ...More…
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Fifth Place /// Toyota Tundra 4x4 Crewmax SR5
Popular Mechanics — The automotive world is downsizing. The high cost of fuel has forced automakers to shrink both the size of vehicles and sales expectations, too. Big, thirsty and, yes, profitable vehicles just aren't moving off dealer lots the way they used to. ...More…
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Popular Mechanics — Most sci-fi films keep everything in sharp focus to wow you with effects, but Steven Spielberg used a more impressionistic style in this 1977 ordinary-guy-meets-the-aliens saga. The backgrounds are often blurred-check out the power-plant ...More…
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When Hackers Attack: Practicing Cybersecurity at Home
Popular Mechanics — Investigators say the spyware was created and installed by Craig Matthew Feigin, a 23-year-old student at the University of Florida who had previously offered to fix a problem with Garcia's computer. Police arrested Feigin, who now faces a ...More…
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Innovators:
Popular Mechanics — Eric Meek of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y., created this handblown beaker for our cover story. Watch the beaker take shape on PopMech TV right here. Raw biomass is typically ground up and pretreated in an acid steam bath before ...More…
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A lone well in the Nevada desert
Popular Mechanics — Unlike conventional geothermal power, which has been limited to areas with stores of hot groundwater, EGS power plants create their own geothermal reservoirs by pumping water to hot, dry rocks located tens of thousands of feet under the surface. ...More…
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MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education
Popular Mechanics — It's really difficult to absorb things just by being told about them-I know I don't learn well that way. If students could get their hands dirty in science class they'd be more likely to internalize information. You can lecture about the ...More…
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BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL /// SAVING SCIENCE EDUCATION
Popular Mechanics — Our suggestion for this school year: Forget about the Hannah Montana Trapper Keepers, the expensive laptops, even the spiral notebooks. Instead, offer the truly hands-on student in your life one product that will change the way he or she ...More…
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Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops
Popular Mechanics — Apple's popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people. And if the marketing is to be believed, the former is a hip, sport-coat-and-sneakers-wearing type of guy who uses his ...More…
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Sonic Showers
Popular Mechanics — Though much has changed since humankind fled the wilderness for civilized comforts, one thing hasn't: We still clean ourselves with water. Yet traditional showers take time, waste resources and don't necessarily get the job done. Instead, we ...More…
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CONTINUED: How It Works >>>
Popular Mechanics — The whine of the power plant sounds like a jet engine as refrigerant blasts through the turbine at 1000 mph. Though the equipment is compact, the din fills the vast hangar, and mechanical engineer Gwen Holdmann has to shout to be heard: "What you ...More…