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    TIPCO RSS agg
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  <item description="when i was a kid, we'd all pile into the country squire for the long trip north to see the boston branch of the family. on one trip we stopped in corning, n.y., so my mother could pay her respects at the corning glass museum, and perhaps pick up a casserole dish or two. all i knew about corning (nyse: glw  ) at the time was that the company had something to do with many of my favorite meals, and confusingly had nothing to do with corn itself." link="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/08/14/whats-so-special-about-gorilla-glass-2.aspx" title="what's so special about gorilla glass 2?"/>
  <item description="at the philips electronics factory on the coast of china, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. that is the old way." link="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-global-industry.html?_r=1&amp;ref=technology" title="skilled work, without the worker"/>
  <item description="taiwanese electronics manufacturer foxconn technology, has decided to open a factory in serang, banten. the plant which will produce 10 million units per year of electronic tools and will occupy an area of ​​5,000 square meters." link="http://www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2012/08/15/brk,20120815-423779,uk.html" title="foxconn to build plant in cikande"/>
  <item description="every year, 2.1 million people die from vaccine-preventable disease—and it’s no mystery why a good number go without the immunizations that could save lives. many live off-grid without electricity—and no refrigerators to keep vaccines cold in clinics. without being chilled between 35-45 degrees fahrenheit (2-8 degrees celsius), vaccines spoil and become inactive. " link="http://www.good.is/post/nanotech-jackets-to-keep-vaccines-from-spoiling-off-grid/" title="nanotech &quot;jackets&quot; to keep vaccines from spoiling off-grid"/>
  <item description="new findings show that the material beneath the thin carbon sheets determines how they react chemically and electrically.  when you look at a gift-wrapped present, the basic properties of the wrapping paper — say, its colors and texture — are not generally changed by the nature of the gift inside. " link="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/graphene-electrons-behavior-0813.html" title="graphene’s behavior depends on where it sits"/>
  <item description="tokelau may not yet be a fully self-governing country—the major of its budget is paid for in aid from new zealand; its citizens still are technically citizens of new zealand; and it has non-self-governing territory status with the un—but its may well become the world's nation of island to get all of its electricity from solar power." link="http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/tokelau-world-first-100-percent-solar-powered-nation-september.html" title="tokelau will be world's first 100% solar powered nation by september"/>
  <item description="peter thiel's philanthropic foundation gives up to $350,000 to a company named modern meadow, which plans to use 3d bioprinting to create an &quot;edible prototype&quot; that's a meat replacement." link="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57493377-76/3d-printed-meat-its-whats-for-dinner/" title="3d printed meat: it's what's for dinner"/>
  <item description="a solar-powered toilet that converts human waste into electricity snags first place—and $100,000—at the reinvent the toilet challenge." link="http://the-scientist.com/2012/08/17/eco-friendly-flush/" title="eco-friendly flush"/>
  <item description="even after 18 years of frozen storage, human embryos can still produce viable stem cells for drug screening and biomedical research." link="http://the-scientist.com/2012/08/16/embryonic-stem-cells-survive-freezing/" title="embryonic stem cells survive freezing"/>
  <item description="for nearly 30 years lead singer bruce dickinson has been know worldwide as the voice of heavy metal band iron maiden. it's easy to see he has a passion for his music, but there's another kind of metal he's equally passionate about, airplanes. “it's pretty much like breathing really. it's one of those essential things,” says dickinson." link="http://www.boeing.com/features/2012/08/bca_ironmaiden_08_13_12.html" title="iron maiden lead singer rocks 747-8 simulator"/>
  <item description="with financial support from the u.s. national institutes of health and the national science foundation, the biomedical engineers have developed a biochip that detects traces of influenza by honing in on rna sequence and then using the magnets to separate the sequence from the rest of the rna strand, according research published in the journal of molecular diagnostics." link="http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2012/06/11/daily53-brown-university-researchers-create-flu-detection-test.html" title="brown university researchers create flu-detection test"/>
  <item description="a team of researchers led by george whitesides, the woodford l. and ann a. flowers university professor, has already broken new engineering ground with the development of soft, silicone-based robots inspired by creatures like starfish and squid." link="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120816141535.htm" title="soft robots' could camouflage themselves one minute, and stand out, the next"/>
  <item description="pioneering mass spectrometry methods developed at the u.s. department of energy’s (doe’s) ames laboratory are helping plant biologists get their first glimpses of never-before-seen plant tissue structures. the new method opens up new realms of study, ones that might have long-ranging implications for biofuels research and crop genetics." link="http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/08/spectrometry-method-reveals-previously-hidden-plant-tissues" title="spectrometry method reveals previously hidden plant tissues "/>
  <item description="an unmanned experimental aircraft designed to fly six times the speed of sound broke apart over the pacific ocean seconds into a military test flight due to a faulty control fin, the u.s. air force said on wednesday." link="http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-usa-hypersonic-flight-idinbre87f08x20120816" title="u.s. hypersonic aircraft crashes seconds into military test flight"/>
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