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3D printing is about to redefine paradigms, rewrite/defenestrate/burn textbooks and give the unwashed masses the power to print iPhone covers at will

The Register in ‘3D printing: 'Third industrial revolution' or a load of old cobblers?’

In Warsaw, the negotiators were tasked under the Durban Platform track (the so-called “ADP” track) to develop a work plan of substantive topics and a related calendar that will lead to the development of the text of an agreement of a new comprehensive policy architecture that can be discussed at COP-20 in Lima one year from now and then subject to final consideration and adoption a year after that at COP-21 in Paris

Robert Stavins in ‘The Warsaw Climate Negotiations, and Reason for Cautious Optimism’

A bank of screens contains … and AIS, an automatic identification system that transmits the ship's name, speed and heading, and other details to other ships, port authorities, and well-equipped pirates

From ‘Ninety Percent of Everything’ by Rose George

Gone are the grandiose diatribes and the repetitive talking points of the Ahmadinejad years. In their place is what the … Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sounding more like a member of a yoga collective, calls “heroic flexibility.”

Laura Secor of The New Yorker in ‘Talking or walking’

Mr Cameron has not [gave a speech in French] yet (though he has attempted to sound Australian)

The Economist in ‘Channel deep and wide’

The tunes of Phoenix Legend, a duo from the song-and-dance troupe of China’s strategic missile force, are hugely popular

The Economist in ‘Dancing queens’

[if the entire world were to impose a grain embargo on China] certainly it would be because we ourselves had committed some huge and dreadful crime against heaven. Even if there were grain to eat, it would not be good times for the Chinese people

Chinese economist Mao Yushi, quote by The Economist in ‘Daily bread’

And I hope that [the report] will reassure everyone that human influence is having a major impact on the Earth's climate.

Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman in an interview with the BBC

Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?

Title of an economics research paper.

Although personally I am quite content with the existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement

Winston Churchill, quoted by The Economist in ‘Two man race’