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This is where you'll find topics to read or discuss which don't seem to fit into the other categories.
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Can computer gaming make you smarter?
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With kids, and even adult, spending as much time playing their Playstation 3, Xbox 360, or Nintendo Wii, is gaming unhealthy? Is it just a waste of time, causing people to become lazy and unmotivated or can it actually be a healthy mental develo...
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Big brother is watching
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Since the increase in the level of terrorism throughout the world, we've seen an increased level of security, however it seems that we are sacrificing our privacy.. Are we moving toward the Orwellian view of the world? Is life becoming more comp...
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Ministry Of Truth 2006
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Every politician, CEO, media personality, lobbyist, judge, & lawyer should have to submit to a polygraph test each time s/he speaks. Hook the polygraph test up to an electrical device with increasing levels of shock, from mild to total electrocut...
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Boiler Rooms in a Box
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Our electromechanical world at home has prefabricated washers, dryers, and fridges. Can’t the hot water heating pumps, valves, controls, and fittings be built like appliances and brought to the construction site like everything else?
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Why do we carry so many keys?
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Keys are so easily misplaced and often lost. Plus, it's yet another item to carry with you on a daily basis. Are modern security methods any better or do they just pose a new set of problems?
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Simplicity is... Automation
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Simplicity is about automation. Take the toaster, for example. Why should I have to press the lever to start the toasting? It should simply start itself whenever it detects a toast being dropped into the slot.
What other products would you like t...
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How can innovative ideas help the poorest.
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I remember the drinking straw that was developed which made muddy water perfectly good for drinking. Can't simple cheaps appliances be developed for this category of people?And it would not be in the form of charity. They could buy this kind of st...
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Is time the new currency?
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We often talk about complexity and inconveniences in our lives, but are we really just talking about tasks that take up more time than they should? Is time now the currency we use to judge value?
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Should divorce be banned or should the law be made easier?
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Love between two human beings makes them take an oath of marriage. Later hate brings them to the lawyers and court for divorce and marriage settlements. Countries like the Phillipines have no legalized divorce. Can't two people live happily under ...
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Has society lost it's attention span?
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Have we gotten so used to 'fast food' style of information delivery that we no longer have the attention span to, for example, read and finish an entire novel? Are we seeing the effects of the MTV generation where snippets of information are mo...
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