Build a Healthy Lunch

             Do you know how to make a power packed lunch?

Healthy lunches should include food from all, or at least most, of the food groups: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, protein, and dairy. Eating a variety of foods at lunch time will help you get the nutrients your body needs to be strong and healthy and can give you energy that will last through the afternoon.

Can you figure out what's missing from this lunch? 
Grab the missing foods and make this healthy lunch complete!

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Meet Our Youth Advisors

We are four youth advisors from the Greater Boston Area, participating in the Youth Advisory Program at Boston Children's Hospital. We are three high school students and a college student who have been trained to educate our peers about health issues.

We take field trips to different community organizations in the Boston area, and provide peer-to-peer education on many health topics.

We also surf the web to find reliable health information for you, and evaluate educational pamphlets. We write articles for our quarterly e-newsletter called Teen Talk. We also do outreach in our adolescent outpatient clinic and area high schools, and help to staff our Resource Center that is open to the public, Monday-Friday, 1-5pm.

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The "Peers are Here" map below shows where in the community we've presented lately, and the topics we've given presentations on.

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Very Nice car

1. When he embraced his teammate after a goal.

2. And when he was just happy and wanted to show someone his love:

3. When he made this “I’m about to hug you” face:

4. And took it a step further with this big hug AND kiss for his fellow teammate, Jack Wilshere:

Octocopter named “HorseFly” takes flight

This HorseFly has eight rotors, a wirelessly recharging battery and a mission to deliver merchandise right to your doorstep. The new drone was developed as a result of collaborative efforts from the Univ. of Cincinnati, AMP Electric Vehicles and the Unive. of Cincinnati Research Institute.

The University of Cincinnati and AMP Electric Vehicles, makers of the WorkHorse all-electric delivery truck, collaborated on the HorseFly "octocopter" through an innovative partnership made possible by the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI).

The newly designed, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was developed to work in tandem with AMP's delivery trucks, creating a safe, fast and never-before-seen method of delivering goods.

Steve Burns, CEO of AMP, explains the process like this: The HorseFly will be positioned atop a delivery truck, awaiting a package from the driver. When loaded, the HorseFly will scan the barcode on the package, determine the path to the delivery address via GPS and fly away—completely self-guided—to the appropriate destination. Meanwhile, the delivery truck will continue on its rounds. After successful delivery, the HorseFly will zoom back to the truck for its next delivery run and, if needed, a roughly two-minute wireless recharge.

"Our premise with HorseFly is that the HorseFly sticks close to the horse," Burns says. "If required, the HorseFly will wirelessly recharge from the large battery in the WorkHorse truck. The fact that the delivery trucks are sufficiently scattered within almost any region during the day makes for short flights, as opposed to flying from the warehouse for each delivery."

Paul Orkwis, head of UC's Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, looks at the HorseFly and sees its potential to be something more.

"If you want to get really far-fetched and look into the future, at something like a flying car, that's possibly what you could be looking at with this," Orkwis says.

  New age of airmail

The UAV-truck delivery method is an ingeniously simple concept powered by some very complex technology. UC aerospace researchers have developed an experimental capability to capture the dynamic behavior—response to outside forces, such as wind gusts—of the UAV platform.

The researchers use computer models to analyze how a UAV behaves in a dynamic environment, allowing them to develop an autonomous controller and essentially put the UAV on autopilot. Flight tests have shown UC's modeling system to be highly accurate.

The novel, reconfigurable design of the HorseFly UAV is a product of this research, says Kelly Cohen, an associate professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. Cohen's team is led by his PhD student Wei Wei with support from fellow students Bryan Brown, Nicholas Schwartz, Vince DeChellis and Nathaniel Richards.

"With the HorseFly project, we developed a brand-new aircraft and airframe from scratch, and we built the system with the ability to look into different applications. Now we can build a family of octorotors and find out the best possible configuration," Cohen says. "There is no textbook on multirotor aircraft design. Here we have been pioneering this effort, and we've come up with something successful."

Experts on flying safely

Key to that success and a primary reason AMP teamed with UC has been the researchers' ability to make the HorseFly safe and resilient. In addition to the sophisticated autonomous controller system, the HorseFly will have multiple built-in hardware redundancies (rotors, onboard computers, battery packs). So if, for example, multiple rotors were to fail, the HorseFly and its payload still could be retrieved safely.

"An important part of the HorseFly project is that we make a vehicle that will not drop out of the sky," Burns says. "This is the particular point that UC specializes in and where we are relying on their expertise to help us build such a safe and resilient craft."
Burns also noted that the HorseFly can be supported by human pilots in a flight control center who can access the aircraft's cameras to choose the safest landing spot.  

Strategic partnership with industry

The partnership between UC and AMP was secured through UCRI, an independent nonprofit entity connecting UC experts to industry partners, facilitating commercialization of research and enhancing experiential learning for UC students.

For HorseFly, Burns connected with Orkwis to explain his vision for the project. Then an agreement was developed in a matter of days with help from UCRI CEO David Linger.

“UCRI supports businesses, small or large, that want to access and leverage the university’s expertise: faculty, students and labs to collaborate with the firm’s researchers,” Linger explains. “The partnership with AMP is a great example of how UCRI can facilitate the path to innovation between private industry and university resources.”

According to Linger, partnerships between the university and private businesses have traditionally been limited to the co-op program or privately-funded research, and were often complicated and time-intensive to undertake. But because it is an independent, small nonprofit, UCRI can leverage the full expertise of the university while executing with agility and efficiency.

Cohen said working with UCRI has opened new doors for his department.

"AMP came up with a vision, and we made suggestions. Those suggestions were translated into a very quick project, something that would have been impossible without UCRI," Cohen says. "Now, we have the possibility of becoming strategic business partners working with industry, pushing the envelope together as we transition technology as well as business ideas due to our knowledge of the market."

Terms of the agreement called for AMP to receive a working, flight-tested design prototype, and a final report and demonstration. AMP provided funding for minimal overhead costs and tuition support for Wei.

Orkwis credited UCRI for streamlining the process and accommodating student involvement in the project. He says the importance of Wei's role was exemplified at a recent flight demo where Wei piloted the HorseFly for AMP investors—a unique real-world experience that is Cincinnati Smart.

"A lot can be attributed to Wei's own can-do attitude. That's really what it comes down to. If you sit back and say, 'No it can't be done,' then who wants to come and work with you?" Orkwis says.

UC and AMP will continue to develop the HorseFly project in anticipation of new Federal Aviation Administration regulations on commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles. As of now, limited recreational use of UAVs is permitted in the U.S. but commercial activity is not allowed. New FAA rulings are expected soon and could arrive in 2015.

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Physicians use Goggle Glass to teach surgery abroad

Imagine watching a procedure performed live through the eyes of the surgeon. That’s exactly what surgical leaders in the U.S. were able to do while overseeing surgeons training in Paraguay and Brazil with the help of Univ. of California, Los Angles (UCLA) doctors and Google Glass.

UCLA surgeon Dr. David Chen and surgical resident Dr. Justin Wagner have made it their mission to teach hernia surgery around the world and are harnessing the latest technologies to help.
“Hernia repair is the most common operation performed worldwide,” said Chen, assistant clinical professor of general surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “From a global health perspective, it is as cost-effective as immunizations because it allows patients to regain function and resume work and other daily activities.”

It is also an easily teachable procedure that lends itself to the advent of this kind of technology, according to Chen, associate director of surgical education and clinical director of the Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA.

The team used Google Glass, which is worn like conventional glasses, but houses a tiny computer the size of a Scrabble tile outfitted with a touch-pad display screen and high-definition camera that can connect wirelessly to stream live.

With Chen and Wagner’s help, local surgeons at a hospital in Paraguay in late May wore Google Glass while performing adult surgeries to repair a common type of hernia in which an organ or fatty tissue protrudes through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin. This type of hernia is commonly found in both children and adults.

Through Google Glass, the surgeries were viewed “live” via wireless streaming in the U.S. to a select group of leading surgeons who could watch and oversee the procedures. The experts could also transmit their comments to the surgeon, who could read them on the Google Glass monitor. The surgeries are also being archived for later training purposes as well. Chen added that the educational program ensures competency and quality of the operations.

“We are one of the first to use Google Glass in teaching and training surgeons from outside a country,” said Chen. And he says hernia surgery is just the beginning. 

“Our goal is to utilize the latest technologies like Google Glass, Facebook and Twitter in connecting everyone in medicine worldwide for educational purposes that can help improve medical care in resource-poor countries,” said Chen. “These cost-effective applications can ultimately be used for other surgical procedures and medical training as well.”

The UCLA team also visited Brazil, where they used Google Glass during three hernia surgeries and also streamed a live debriefing session afterwards. The team plans to train 15 surgeons from around the country in September. These surgeons will then become trainers to teach other surgeons at several regional hospitals for underserved patients. Similar programs will be implemented in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Ecuador this fall.

These training projects are part of an educational arm of Hernia Repair for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free hernia surgery to children and adults in the Western Hemisphere. Chen, who serves on the organization’s board, is spearheading these educational projects with the UCLA team to help “train the trainers” and increase the number of surgeons performing this procedure in underprivileged countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Chen and Wagner also work closely with UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT) in developing new ways to help educate doctors remotely.

They have even streamed surgical lectures to Haiti from UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica.

“We are developing practical applications for these technologies so that surgeons in any setting can have access to the global surgical community from within their own operating rooms,” said Wagner. “Even after the training is over, local surgeons can be teleproctored remotely so they will remain connected to experts worldwide.”

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IT services and software

In 2013, software and IT services firms will have their heads in the clouds. The spread of “cloud computing” will spur investments in flexible, mobile services that are delivered online and charged according to usage. “Big Data” projects will also gather steam as companies in many industries look for insights by sifting through huge volumes of data, a task that requires both whizzy software and bright minds. Global software spending will grow by 6%, almost twice the rate in 2012. IT services will also do well, although growth will be around 3%.

Coders will crank out software for mobile devices. Revenue from apps will grow by more than 50% a year through 2016, according to Juniper Research. Gartner, another research firm, estimates that a staggering 81bn apps will be downloaded in 2013, almost twice as many as in the year before. 

To watch: Something for nothing. In an increasingly crowded market for mobile apps, the “freemium” business model will falter. A tiny fraction of users convert from free to paid versions of apps, so it takes a huge number of downloads to make the economics work, benefiting established brands with marketing muscle. Most developers will either heavily restrict features in free versions of apps or charge outright for downloads.

From The World In 2013 print edition

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Top 1 Topic in Information Technology

Social Media Privacy

Social media is a competitive market. In the rush to add new features to current offerings, user privacy sometimes gets left on the back burner. Apps and plug-ins that utilize GPS location and single access sign-on present unique security concerns for users. Most social media features now require users to grant access to their personal information, including publicly shared pictures and status updates, before they can use the service. Users innocently share this data so that they can register for marketing incentives like coupons on raffle drawings. - See more at: http://online.king.edu/information-technology/top-5-topics-in-information-technology/#sthash.K0AFp5LB.dpuf

The icing on the cake is that companies are largely left to their own devices when it comes to developing and instituting security policies. There is no universal security legislation, and companies are free to change their policies as they see fit. Facebook, for example, has changed their security policy and privacy settings numerous times in recent years, leaving some users feeling confused and unprotected. - See more at: http://online.king.edu/information-technology/top-5-topics-in-information-technology/#sthash.K0AFp5LB.dpuf

But how much do users actually value their privacy? This report from NBC News shows data that suggests social media users value their privacy less than those who avoid social media networks. A poll conducted by The Ponemon Institute shows that feelings on privacy have become polarized. Thirty-six percent of participants said they felt privacy was less important than it was five years ago; the exact same percentage said they felt it was more important. Interestingly, the two groups agreed that they have less control over their information than they did five years ago. - See more at: http://online.king.edu/information-technology/top-5-topics-in-information-technology/#sthash.K0AFp5LB.dpuf

10 Futurist Predictions in the World of Technology

Futurists can dish out some exciting and downright scary visions for the future of machines and science that either enhance or replace activities and products near and dear to us.

Being beamed from one location to another by teleportation was supposed to be right around the corner/in our lifetime/just decades away, but it hasn't become possible yet. Inventions like the VCR that were once high tech -- and now aren't -- proved challenging for some: The VCR became obsolete before many of us learned how to program one. And who knew that working with atoms and molecules would become thefuture of technology? The futurists, of course.

Forecasting the future of technology is for dreamers who hope to innovate better tools -- and for the mainstream people who hope to benefit from the new and improved. Many inventions are born in the lab and never make it into the consumer market, while others evolve beyond the pace of putting good regulations on their use.

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The Chevrolet Corvette is powered by this GL80 transmission. Check out another transmission made by General Motors next. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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The new 2.0 dCi "M9R" 2-litre diesel engine co-developed by Renault and Nissan. This engine is the most efficient in its category. See what could be powering future GM vehicles in the next photo.(TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)

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It might not have a Retina screen, but that doesn't stop the new MacBook Air being the greatest laptop ever made

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This Company Is No Mickey Mouse Operation

With its famous history that's become part of popular culture, and the instantly recognizable silhouette in its logo, The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is only an animation studio in the same way that Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is only a baby powder manufacturer.
The Many Faces Of Mickey
Through organic growth and acquisition, Disney has become not only a massive entertainment conglomerate but a complex one. The company has achieved that rare and remarkable accomplishment of operating several successful concerns (e.g. ESPN, Lucasfilm, Marvel Entertainment, 32% of Hulu) that most customers don’t even realize are under the Disney umbrella. The company’s subsidiaries and offshoots run the gamut from cruise lines and planned communities to retail stores, each making its own distinct contributions to Disney’s $45 billion in annual revenue. The company has five divisions. In decreasing order of size, they are Media Networks, Parks & Resorts, Studios, Consumer Products and Interactive. Each has various subdivisions and properties.

Media Networks includes the crown jewels in Disney’s operations, the American Broadcasting Company and related networks. ABC, of course, is a staple of over-the-air broadcast television, airing dozens of hours of programming a week, watched by tens of millions, and presumably requiring no introduction to anyone in the United States who owns a set. Disney also owns several television stations, including four of the nation’s largest and highest-billing – New York’s WABC, KABC in Los Angeles, WLS Chicago and San Francisco’s KGO. But that doesn’t begin to cover the extent of Disney’s television coverage. There’s also ABC Family, the Disney Channel, and half of the A+E Networks, plural, which itself includes such basic cable stalwarts as The History Channel, Lifetime, H2 and more. Not to mention the company’s international operations and its 80% interest in ESPN and its family of channels, which boast over 99 million subscribers. Add up the advertiser revenue and cable subscriber fees, and media operations resulted in $20 billion in revenue in 2013, up 5% over the previous year. After expenses these pieces contributed a colossal 64% of Disney’s total operating income.
                                Glad-handing With The Mouse
To people of a certain vintage, Disney is less synonymous with cartoons than with theme parks. The company is generally recognized as the inventor of the concept, and today its parks and resorts operations go well beyond its Anaheim and Orlando origins.

There are theme parks in Hong Kong, suburban Paris, and coming in 2015, Shanghai. (As for Tokyo Disneyland, it’s operated by a 3rd party under a licensing agreement.) The company welcomed 126,479,000 visitors to its destinations in 2012, which is not only the most of any resort operator in the world, but more than those of the next three combined. Resorts without corresponding theme parks operate in Vero Beach, Fla.; Hilton Head Island, S.C.; and Kapolei, Hawaii. The four ships of the Disney Cruise Line travel the Caribbean, Pacific Coast and around Europe, and together are capable of transporting 11,000 passengers at once. Disney even has a quietly lucrative timeshare division, thus capitalizing on one of the most remunerative businesses known to man. In 2013 the parks and resorts’ receipts totaled $14 billion, adding $2.2 billion in operating income to Disney’s coffers, which dwarfs (no pun intended) even the company’s highest-profile business of all.

A Long Way From Steamboat Willie
Walt Disney Studios starts with the company’s oldest department, the animation operations that made Disney a household name. The division also includes a more recent acquisition in the animation category – Pixar, which Disney purchased in 2006. The remaining operations in this division are Walt Disney Pictures, the company’s live-action filmmaking concern; Disney Music Group, distributor of film and TV soundtracks but also the parent label of several artists intended for adults; Disney Theatrical Group (ice shows, Broadway plays and such); the aforementioned Lucasfilm, acquired by Disney in 2012; and home video and nature documentary operations. All told, Studios revenues reached $6 billion last year, the largest share of that coming from television/subscription video-on-demand operations. Net income for the division was $661 million, a profit margin of 11%.
A Set Of Ears For Every Child
Consumer Products, Disney’s merchandising arm, dates back to the company’s origins and includes three units: licensing, publishing and retail stores. The right to use the images of Mickey Mouse, Buzz Lightyear, that one-eyed creature from Monsters, Inc. and countless other trademarked characters provides a reliable income stream for the company, one that requires little marginal investment. Consumer Products’ publishing department is the world’s largest seller of kids’ books and magazines, operating in 75 languages in 85 nations. And in a triumph of synergy over separation, Disney owns 320 retail outlets throughout North America, Japan and Western Europe, bringing those licensed t-shirts and impractical headgear directly to the consumer. Consumer Products grossed $3.6 billion in the most recent fiscal year, with operating income of $1.1 billion, testament to the wide margins inherent to Disney’s merchandising efforts.

Which leaves Interactive, notable as the only Disney division that runs at a loss, albeit a small one. Interactive includes Disney’s video game operations, including social network and console games. Titles include Cars 2 and Toy Story 3, which take intercompany cross-promotion to a different level and therefore enable Disney to again capitalize on the same creation multiple times. Still, Interactive is Disney’s smallest business, losing $87 million on revenues of just over $1 billion in 2013. However, the nascent department is also Disney’s most improved and fastest growing. Its losses were $216 million in 2012, $308 million in 2011, and that on smaller revenues, meaning that if trends continue Interactive ought to finish in the black before long.
The Bottom Line

Disney is as iconic a company as there is, its name universally recognized and resonant with happiness, nostalgia and other positive emotions. As one of the world’s most reputable companies (as declared by at least one outlet), one of its most profitable (margins of 14%), and one of its largest (a book value of $45 billion), Disney continues to seek new opportunities in its ninth decade of existence. With its stock at an all-time zenith, its price-to-earnings ratio relatively small, and its dividends ever more generous (quadrupling over the last decade), Disney seems ripe for even further growth, putting childlike smiles on the faces of investors everywhere. (For related reading, see How Johnson & Johnson Became A Household Name.)

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Best Apps For Buying A Home

If you are in the market for a new home, technology can help make your search a little easier. There are mobile apps that allow you to search listings, calculate mortgage costs, find out which businesses and attractions are nearby, and decipher real estate terms you'll hear throughout the home-buying process. Below are some of the best real estate apps for homebuyers:

MLS Apps: Realtor.com, Redfin.com, Trulia.com, Zillow.com, etc. 

Platform: iOS, Android

Cost: Free

These apps are grouped together because they essentially do the same thing: help you search the local MLS (multiple listing service) to find properties for sale. Homebuyers can search by city/state or zip code to see current listings, and filter by price, number of beds/baths, property type, square feet, lot size, features, age of home, and listing activity (i.e., open houses, new listings, price reduced). Realtor.com is often recommended by real estate agents because it tends to have the most accurate and up-to-date information, sourced from more than 800 MLSs, with 90% of its listings refreshed every 15 minutes.

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List of cities proper by population

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Population tables of world cities
World's largest cities World's largest cities proper World's largest urban areas World's largest metropolitan areas World's largest conurbations World's largest urban agglomerations World megacities World megalopolises
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This is an attempt to list the most populous cities in the world defined according to a concept of city proper. A city proper is a locality defined according to legal or political boundaries and an administratively recognized urban status that is usually characterized by some form of local government.^[1][2][3] City proper may not include suburbs.^[4]

"World Urbanization Prospects", a UN publication, defines population of a city proper as "the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city." The book continues to say that "city proper as defined by administrative boundaries may not include suburban areas where an important proportion of the population working or studying in the city lives."^[4] However, some cities on this list do not follow this definition, as it can be misleading. For example, many cities in China govern territory that extends well beyond the traditional "city proper" into suburban and rural, and sometimes even include other smaller "cities." Using a strictly administrative definition, cities in China would rank disproportionately high on the list. For this list, the definition of a city as a primarily urban locality is used.

The goal is to provide populations that can be compared reasonably and informatively. This list enumerates populations of the world's largest cities, whose boundaries may or may not correspond tomunicipalities. Populations listed are not necessarily for the administratively defined city and may be for urban area,metropolitan area, or one of many types of municipality indicated in the Definition column^[why?]. Approximate surface area, and population density are also indicated. The list only includes cities of 3 million 

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Meet the Mekong Eyeless Spider, Zorro Snake and The Hunch-Bat of Vietnam

Meet the Mekong Eyeless Spider, Zorro Snake and The Hunch-Bat of Vietnam

D-Day In Popular Science 70 years ago, we were all over the most exciting military tech news of the time

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The technologies used in the June 6th, 1944 invasion of Normandy have captivated writers and readers of Popular Science for a long time. Here are some of the best stories about it from our archives.

"Tin Cans" Dish It Out, July 1945.

Published 13 months after the invasion, two months after victory in Europe, and one month before victory over Japan, ""Tin Cans" Dish It Out" is about destroyers. The Destroyer is a sort of middle-ship, smaller than the large and now-obsolete battleships but deadlier than the tiny torpedo boats they were made to destroy. In D-Day, destroyers got close to the coast, being shallower ships than many in the Navy. The destroyers paid dearly for it, but the whole of the invasion went better because destroyer guns were able to attack the enemy guns that remained.  From the article:

Of course, this is simply throwing the rule book overboard, for a square hit from a six-inch shore battery can demolish a destroyer -- which has no armor worth mentioning -- as thoroughly as a salvo from a battleship''s big guns. But when the fate of a great invading army hangs in the balance, destroyers become expendable. It cost us the destroyers Meredith and Glennon to put our troops ashore at "Utah Beach," a price well justified by the success of the landing and the enormous over-all savings in casualties.

The Weasel Goes Anywhere, November 1944

The M-29c cargo carrier, dubbed the Water Weasel,  was adapted from a two-person vehicle designed for fighting in snow. The amphibious version proved adept in the Pacific, using the tracks as a series of tiny flippers to propel it through water. In the European theater, it was a latecomer, but it's ability to go 4 mph in water and 30 on land allowed it to still fight in the flooded fields of Normandy and Holland. In "The Weasel Goes Anywhere," Popular Science examined the versatility of this light, amphibious vehicle.

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Overview

The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world's greatest museum of art and design, representing more than 3,000 years of human creativity, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity.

In recent years, the V&A has undergone a dramatic programme of renewal and restoration. Highlights include the Medieval Renaissance galleries containing some of the greatest surviving treasures from the period, the breathtaking Jewellery gallery and the stunning British Galleries, illustrating the history of Britain through the nation’s art and design. In addition to its outstanding free permanent collection, the V&A offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and an extensive events programme.

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Imperial War Museum

  Discover the story of those who lived, fought and died in conflict from the First World War to the present at the Imperial War Museum. Learn about WW1 in The Trench Experience, explore espionage in The Secret War, and visit the acclaimed Holocaust Exhibition. Entry is free but some special exhibitions require tickets.

10 Futurist Predictions in the World of Technology

Futurists can dish out some exciting and downright scary visions for the future of machines and science that either enhance or replace activities and products near and dear to us.

Being beamed from one location to another by teleportation was supposed to be right around the corner/in our lifetime/just decades away, but it hasn't become possible yet. Inventions like the VCR that were once high tech -- and now aren't -- proved challenging for some: The VCR became obsolete before many of us learned how to program one. And who knew that working with atoms and molecules would become thefuture of technology? The futurists, of course.

Forecasting the future of technology is for dreamers who hope to innovate better tools -- and for the mainstream people who hope to benefit from the new and improved. Many inventions are born in the lab and never make it into the consumer market, while others evolve beyond the pace of putting good regulations on their use.

Next, we'll take a look at some sound-loving atoms, tiny tools for molecules, huge bunches of data and some disgruntled bands of people who may want to set all of this innovation back with the stroke of a keyboard.

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Top 10 London Attractions

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The list below is in order of popularity based on the latest available visitor numbers.

Apple MacBook Air 13in (2013) review

It might not have a Retina screen, but that doesn't stop the new MacBook Air being the greatest laptop ever made

The 2013 version of the MacBook Air is here, and while it hasn’t changed a great deal the laptop environment in which it exists has shifted massively. With touchscreen Windows 8-powered computers and Google’s Chromebooks crowding the market, does Apple still have what it takes, even without a fancy Retina screen?