Hector’s blog

Intergovernmental and private food distribution

2008-06-10T22:47:24Z

A quick Google search for humanitarian food aid often brings up the UN World Food Program (WFP). And yet, the first few results are not very good for its image. For example, this news article about the Iraq's government donating $40 million to the...

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GM crops and Myanmar

2008-05-14T16:41:41Z

While hungry people from Haiti to Somalia rioted this month over food shortages and price increases, South Koreans protested the arrival of 63,000 tons of grain at their ports. The grain was corn from the United States, likely grown in Minnesot...

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Engineered Meat

2008-04-21T22:06:11Z

Taking GMO to the next level, PETA is offering 1 Million dollars for the development of a meat replacement. A link to the print article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us/21meat.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print I'm not sure what to ...

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GPS

2008-04-17T21:09:42Z

GPS navigation is still a immature technology in the consumer market. Considering it is a military project, it makes sense that the most complex and technical use of of GPS is to guide our troops and munitions. Our bombs have superb accuracy, so...

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Sin maíz, no hay país

2008-04-15T00:43:47Z

"Without corn, there is no country" This is the slogan of activist groups in Mexico who are against Genetically Modified (GM) imports from the United States and instead want native maize grown. Genetically modified foods are still confusing to m...

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ICAM 101: Gamer Tag Project

2008-04-12T23:29:25Z

Here is my proposal for a device for my user interface design class: 1. Problem: Gamers, while growing in numbers, still lack a way to find each other geographically considering that most console and pc gaming occurs on an immobile computer platf...

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