But some people bristle at the idea of tinkering with the web of life.
Ms Young's intrepid investigations have given her a clear grasp of the proper role of mankind in the web of life, and produced a delightful hitchhiker's guide to the planet.
The difference is that the Plastiki is looking to inspire something larger -- a sea of change, in how we view waste and how we integrate it back into the web of life.
Military experts warn us our national security is threatened by massive waves of climate refugees destabilizing countries around the world, and scientists tell us the very web of life is endangered by unprecedented extinctions.
It would seem to me that most of those who energetically campaign against the planting of wind farms in their bosky vales do so not out of a profound appreciation of the dew-jewelled web of life, but merely as spectators who wish the show that they've paid admission for to go as advertised.
The ocean is a complex web of marine life, with many species being driven to extinction year after year.
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The AMD Z-60 APU comes loaded with features designed to enhance the tablet experience, including AMD Start Now technology that allows fast boot and resume from sleep times1, up to eight hours of battery life while Web browsing, and up to six hours of HD video playback2.
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Fast-forward to today, and that system of open protocols brings the enormous benefits of the Web to civilian life.
In the weird world of Web 2.0, new forms of entertainment such as Second Life and fake CEO blogs blur the boundary between what is real and fake.
The error 404 is, if you like, the bane of the web user's life, but it is also what makes the web work because all the systems before were very big and cumbersome and they had systems of making sure that every link had an end.
As a mentor for the 2012 cohort, Khalil worked closely with Howard and the contest winners and says that her execution of the contest was a testament to the kind of marketing (online to offline, web pages to real-life events) Loverl.ly was in need of.
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Instead, vast swaths of the social web, including those that many of us now consider essential to daily life, personal and business communication, news and entertainment media, politics, and even social change itself, are owned and managed by corporations that extract value from all that personal information.
For all their distance, Ramon and Ana Lobo keep up the mundane chit chat of married life through their regular Web cam sessions.
Investigations revealed that his business dealings were all suspect and his entire life story was nothing but a web of lies and deceit.
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In a report, Merrill Lynch analyst Jeanne Terrile points out that Chemdex, a "vertical portal, " brings together buyers and sellers of life sciences research products on the Web.
There was, for example, "Slider House Rules, " a mock-up where a single Web page represented a year of a user's life that could be flipped through by a sliding motion.
Dr Eberhard removed larvae from spiders at different stages on what should have been the arachnids' final evening of life to see how this would affect web construction.
He focuses on a wide range of industry sectors including, software, web-based companies, life sciences, information technology, and government contractors.
According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and Life Project, 60 percent of Americans access the Web wirelessly via laptops or smart phones.
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"We want to simplify life on the Web and we certainly have no intention of subjecting users to unnecessary advertising or exploiting personal data, " says Paul Barrett, CEO of Passcenter.
Its battery life: 5 hours on the wireless web. 30 days of standby time.
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In the "Work Life" section of the Human Rights Campaign's Web site, under domestic partner benefits, the Campaign lists major companies and public sector employers who are on board.
And once a few seemingly dry facts have been established - a date and place of birth, for instance - the web can help bring the past to life.
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From Ralph's Web site I knew where he'd been on holiday and some other trivia of his life.
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From semiconductors to life sciences, enterprise software to the web, each industry has created a supply of jobs.
The very talented author of these articles (full disclosure, a friend) is also on this Web-stored NPR show, hinting at his future pieces concerning electronic life and the development of the prefrontal cortex.
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