inventions http://www.npr.org inventions en Copyright 2013 NPR - For Personal Use Only NPR API RSS Generator 0.94 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:46:00 -0500 http://media.npr.org/images/npr_news_123x20.gif inventions http://www.npr.org A Kenyan Teen's Discovery: Let There Be Lights To Save Lions Richard Turere, 13, put his father's cows in a pen at night. That's when the trouble would start. Lions would jump in the shed and kill the farm animals. One night he was walking around with a flashlight and discovered the lions were scared of a moving light. A light went on inside him and an idea was born. Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:46:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/03/01/173246542/a-kenyan-teens-discovery-let-there-be-lights-to-save-lions?ft=1&f=129106897 http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/03/01/173246542/a-kenyan-teens-discovery-let-there-be-lights-to-save-lions?ft=1&f=129106897 Richard Turere, 13, put his father's cows in a pen at night. That's when the trouble would start. Lions would jump in the shed and kill the farm animals. One night he was walking around with a flashlight and discovered the lions were scared of a moving light. A light went on inside him and an idea was born.

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]]> What's The Big Idea? Pentagon Agency Backs Student Tinkerers To Find Out The Pentagon's research agency, DARPA, played key roles in developing the Internet and GPS. Now it's investing money in high school hackerspaces, where students gather to come up with high-tech ideas — like a bicycle that generates electricity. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:42:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/11/19/165033117/whats-the-big-idea-pentagon-agency-backs-student-tinkerers-to-find-out?ft=1&f=129106897 http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/11/19/165033117/whats-the-big-idea-pentagon-agency-backs-student-tinkerers-to-find-out?ft=1&f=129106897 The Pentagon's research agency, DARPA, played key roles in developing the Internet and GPS. Now it's investing money in high school hackerspaces, where students gather to come up with high-tech ideas — like a bicycle that generates electricity.

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]]> After You Die, Get Screwed We look at the "Easy Inter Burial Container," which is the Patent name for something that's basically a vertical coffin that screws into the ground. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:25:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2010/08/10/129106641/after-you-die-get-screwed?ft=1&f=129106897 http://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2010/08/10/129106641/after-you-die-get-screwed?ft=1&f=129106897 We look at the "Easy Inter Burial Container," which is the Patent name for something that's basically a vertical coffin that screws into the ground.

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